Example sentences of "dream of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a whole week now I had dreamed of a small child every night , and perhaps Bessie was right , as a message came from Gateshead . |
| 2 | The Prince dreamed of a great Netherlands victory , with himself as its hero . |
| 3 | So , if you 've dreamed of a certain colour or pattern , you 'd be very unlucky not to find it in the Stoddard Templeton range . |
| 4 | As far back as 1925 , he had dreamed of a complete history of the love allegory from Ovid to Spenser , and by 1928 two chapters of a more modest scheme , starting with the Provençal troubadours , were finished . |
| 5 | Have you ever dreamed of a unique perfume created especially for you ; your own custom-made scent , as fresh , floral or exotic as your mood ? |
| 6 | Unlike Virginia Woolf she did not seek ‘ new words and new methods ’ for women on earth , but only dreamed of a heavenly free-space . |
| 7 | There was a cowboy song on the juke , ‘ I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven , ’ and the two Maniax were practising their fast draws against a GenTech Amusements Machine that zapped you insensible with a light voltage if the computer-generated gunslinger cleared leather faster than you did . |
| 8 | They rejected the main tenets of revolutionary Marxism , denied the central role of the proletariat , and dreamed of a peasant-based socialism . |
| 9 | He dreamed of a total sharing , body and soul . |
| 10 | He was on his way to an outward 38 , two strokes over par and , in the following wind , he dreamed of a good score coming home . |
| 11 | They dreamed of a great alliance with the masses which would destroy the society they detested and create a utopia of peasant socialism . |
| 12 | But he dreamed of a free Namibia , and asked the conference to send Swapo a message of solidarity and support for a massive victory in a free Namibian election . |
| 13 | and dreamed of a horrible martyrdom . |
| 14 | He dreams of a mass consumer market , with one set per person rather than today 's one per home . |
| 15 | Suddenly a new perspective began to open before the young Prince ; he could not only dream of a Bonapartist cause , he could himself become the representative of that cause . |
| 16 | It seems , for example , very unlikely that world agriculture will be able to do without fertilizers for a number of years to come , although one can dream of a technological situation in the next century where direct nitrogen fixation will have been genetically engineered into plants and the whole nature of the fertilizer business will have changed . |
| 17 | But this does n't mean you ca n't dream of a green Christmas . |
| 18 | Some may indeed dream of a united Germany : few believe it is politic to speak or even think of such a thing . |
| 19 | That young man had been full of laughter , a bright-eyed echo of her own youth , one whose passion and sensitivity had made her dare to dream of a permanent partnership . |
| 20 | An Intel Corp observer says the company is really competing against system makers IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc , and maybe MIPS Technologies Inc : his point is that Intel is bound to a policy of moving more and more of the system onto its chips until all the hardware vendor will be adding is a couple of leads ; he also says Intel is very conscious of the potentials of the computer and communications tie-up and is dreaming of a worldwide network data repository under its thumb ; strategic alliances came up and so did the name AT&T Co , and the words ‘ information utility ’ . |
| 21 | He felt he had scarcely fallen asleep , he was dreaming of a black river , with no banks , yet there was something there , a source of light that he wanted to reach , which he could not reach against the cold drive of the current … |
| 22 | But , except for a few dedicated monarchists , Central Europeans are not dreaming of a restored Habsburg dynasty . |
| 23 | Dear Santa , we 're dreaming of a well-read Christmas |
| 24 | Somewhere in this range , too , are those coincidences that give us an eerie spine-tingling feeling , like dreaming of a particular person for the first time in decades , then waking up to find that they died in the night . |
| 25 | ‘ I think it is a little premature at this stage to be dreaming of a green Christmas , ’ Mr Gould added . |
| 26 | BRITAIN is dreaming of a green Christmas this year for the first time since artificial trees appeared in the shops . |
| 27 | A painting like ‘ I 'm dreaming of a white Christmas ’ was shown with several drawn studies and even its print variations . |
| 28 | The Oxford English Dictionary gives no previous examples of this usage , while twentieth-century examples abound , from " I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair " , and " I 'm dreaming of a white Christmas " , to Martin Luther King 's dream of a just and non-racist society , the American Dream itself , and every other advertisement for kitchens and holidays to the sun . |
| 29 | Who 's been dreaming of a white Christmas ? |
| 30 | I 'm dreaming of a white Christmas |