Example sentences of "i [vb past] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't seem to me from what I read of page thirty one of that inspector 's report that he was in any different position by the absence of the Policy E two than he would be if he 'd got it . |
| 2 | Until I came of age he wanted the pictures to be in his ex-wife 's custody . |
| 3 | I came of age in the Sixties , when there were chances , when it was all there waiting . |
| 4 | I came of age in the early 1970s . |
| 5 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
| 6 | I , I was surprised when I heard of sort of the things that had happened . |
| 7 | I then went on to ask him to ‘ edit the dog ’ ( sounds ominous ) , I meant of course ‘ feed her ’ . |
| 8 | I meant of course my … er … ageratum . ’ |
| 9 | He came back and used another word I knew of course but had never heard my father , or any adult , say before . |
| 10 | It was , I suppose , what I demanded of Fate — to be gently wafted into the position of a hero of romance , without rough hands at my throat . |
| 11 | How could I not be when I thought of Mum Lying there in that bed day after day , completely wrecked by Dad having run off with another woman ? |
| 12 | I thought of life as the Whirlpool of Corrievrikin , where all men struggle helplessly and eventually are sucked into the vortex of death I see that we men have nothing that we can do in this whirlpool except find another creature that will share the hopelessness . |
| 13 | I thought of Bill . |
| 14 | so I said well , I said I thought of baby sitting you know if you want . |
| 15 | I thought of wedding presents , |
| 16 | When I took my knitting to the window and sat working there , I thought of Mother . |
| 17 | I thought of Fringe and the Downs and wondered if I would ever ride in a race , and I thought of Ronnie Curzon and publishers and American rights and of Erica Upton 's reviews and it all seemed as distant as Ursa Major but not one whit as essential to my continued existence . |
| 18 | I thought of weather vane but of course it does n't fit in so that 's out . |
| 19 | I spoke of fate — surely if you listen to your heart , you will see that she has plans for us that go far beyond the merging of our two practices . ’ |
| 20 | I enquired of Lili on the way home . |
| 21 | I said of course we had n't . |
| 22 | I said of course I did n't mind , and stood aside to let her in . |
| 23 | I said of course you were deep in domesticity and waiting for the baby and she said that was what so many good students seemed to be choosing these days … " |
| 24 | I paused before replying to her , because if you pause before replying to people it gives them the foolish idea that you 've actually listened to what they 've said , and I said of course darling . |
| 25 | Of modern poets , I had of course spoken to the boys — and to the masters for that matter , for most had ventured no further than Hardy and Houseman , like the Brasenose dons — of Eliot , Pound and the later Yeats ; and I discovered that they lapped this up as if slaking a mental thirst . |
| 26 | Exams and erm she was about the first I think and there was erm somebody else who wanted to take a course in erm Youth Leadership but erm , very quickly the numbers increased till the time I left of course we , we were dealing with thousands |
| 27 | How this can be done I have tried to elucidate when I wrote of hostility and anger , the depressive and schizoid positions . |
| 28 | 2 lb. of a cheap and fat cut of pork such as neck or belly ; s lb. of back pork fat ; salt ; I clove of garlic ; 2 or 3 sprigs of dried wild thyme on the stalk ; a couple of bay leaves ; freshly milled black pepper . |
| 29 | Mrs Bottomley told MPs in the Commons reply : ‘ The report will be published and the chairman of the RHA will report to me on its outcomes and will keep me informed of progress in improving service performance during the inquiry period and beyond . ’ |