Example sentences of "had [verb] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Pharmacist , Miss Alice Gilliatt , sister of the Royal gynaecologist , had heard of a small flat in Fulham . |
| 2 | She had heard of a German drug called Aslocillin which she thought could help and so she pulled every string to find a supply . |
| 3 | We had heard of a municipal university , and of a university of the East Midlands , and newcomers were welcomed by the Chairman of the College Council who , I think , was also a City or County Councillor . |
| 4 | Luckily , I had heard of a suitable den on the River Wye . |
| 5 | He paid calls to La Vieille Cité , famed for its antiquities , where he was politely entertained and actually bought a little Renaissance bronze relief , but no one had heard of a cross coming on the market in recent years . |
| 6 | Last night , a detective investigating the theft said that although this type of crime was becoming increasingly prevalent , it was the first time he had heard of a baby being used as a decoy . |
| 7 | Last night a detective investigating the theft said that , although this type of crime was becoming increasingly prevalent , it was the first time he had heard of a baby being used as a decoy . |
| 8 | The league said it would not send cats to Coundon as it had heard of a case of a kitten being used as live bait for dogs . |
| 9 | President Poincaré wrote gloomily in his diary : ‘ Encore une défaillance ! ‘ , revealing that this was not the first news he had received of a lapse of morale at Verdun . |
| 10 | Tenby had bit of a problem |
| 11 | The jury at Bristol Crown Court was told that Mantack took with him a tape he had made of a woman 's voice crying for help . |
| 12 | The official Soviet version of events was provided in 1957 by Andrei Gromyko , then Deputy Foreign Minister , who claimed that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in prison in 1947 , a date conveniently set before the end of the Stalin era . |
| 13 | She appeared to experience a return of an old symptom in the form of fear of cancer — her father had died of a particularly virulent from of rectal cancer which had metastasised to the spinal cord and brain and she had periodically experienced intense fear that she would die similarly . |
| 14 | In May 1957 , seven years after his wife Hannah had died of a heart attack , Hughie Gallacher hit rock bottom . |
| 15 | All this had changed when she was thirteen and her five-year-old sister had died of a sudden illness . |
| 16 | Returning home with the other prisoners of war , he found his father had died of a heart attack . |
| 17 | At 8am , the hospital formally announced that Conor had died of a heart attack . |
| 18 | The only thing Father Dolan had been able to tell her was that her mother had died of a fever soon after arriving in the town ; he himself had learned this from the constable . |
| 19 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
| 20 | Sarah had told Anne that her grandmother 's lodger Josh Adamson had died of a heart attack at the start of the raid , but they said nothing of this to Julia nor of the casualty lists which were posted up containing many names of people they knew . |
| 21 | Steen had died of a heart attack . |
| 22 | If the evidence meant anything Riddle had died of a bullet fired into his neck , not of a stake driven through his heart . |
| 23 | On Sept 25 , 1989 , a Swiss inquest found that Barschel , who had been found dead in a Geneva hotel room in October 1987 shortly after he had been forced to resign as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein , had died of a drugs overdose and that there was no evidence to suggest that he had been murdered . |
| 24 | Perhaps he had been knocked down , or had died of a heart attack . |
| 25 | Days later , Liam Taylor , a seven-week old baby in her care , had died of a mysterious heart attack . |
| 26 | Willie held the knife above the cake , screwed up his face till he had thought of a wish and then plunged the knife into the icing . |
| 27 | His book was almost finished , and he had thought of a title : The Character Of Completeness . |
| 28 | Japanese leaders had thought of a similar division after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 . |
| 29 | She had thought of a little simple nursing . |
| 30 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |