Example sentences of "me of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another head recently told me of a teacher who had been in the habit of twanging the sixth-form girls ' bra straps . |
| 2 | Yet I think that at the subconscious and half-conscious levels he was a heavy weight upon me of a perhaps oppressive or repressive kind . |
| 3 | Tara , a fourteen-year-old , told me of a sequence of events which , her friends agreed , was hardly an exception : |
| 4 | Before my mother died she told me of a letter to me , held in the bank , which I was to receive on her death . |
| 5 | The battlegroup have already warned me of a third tank needing a new pack and the Commanding Officer wants everything fit for his final exercise tomorrow . |
| 6 | But I was thinking , looking at them — ’ he gestured towards the tourists — ‘ seeing them in a group , it reminded me of a time in cadet school . |
| 7 | A friend once told me of a Northen Ireland tour back in the 1970s , by a group of bogus Wombles . |
| 8 | Reminds me of a piece of graffiti outside Saint Martin-in the-Fields . |
| 9 | She reminds me of a small animal at bay . |
| 10 | But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place . |
| 11 | Mrs Knelle gave a shudder , and in that moment she reminded me of a Karen Blixen figure in Kenya , who has stayed on after Mau Mau to make the best of life in a new Republic . |
| 12 | He told me of a visit he 'd made to California . |
| 13 | The sweeper 's story reminded me of a tale told at Ross Carbery , County Cork . |
| 14 | A FRIEND tells me of a post-electoral poster war which has broken out in his salubrious street in north Kensington , London , quite different in tone from the good-humoured gobbing on one another 's doorsteps which characterised neighbourly relations during the three weeks preceding the day that the revolution failed to dawn . |
| 15 | WHILE the economy has performed its own high-wire act , news reaches me of a circus whose partners have been forced into personal bankruptcy . |
| 16 | With his long face and straw-coloured hair pulled back in a half-hearted ponytail , he reminded me of a youthful Donald Sutherland ; the same doomy seriousness suddenly lightened by a wry humour . |
| 17 | Although bathed in a sentimentality of its own , the concept appeals to me because it reminds me of a trip I made as a student to the Maison Savoye in the summer of 1957 , when this great Corbusier villa was a ruin surrounded by waist-high grass and nettles . |
| 18 | This talk of laughing all the way to the bank reminds me of a delightful line from Shakespeare : |
| 19 | The sweeping contours of the hill at that point have always reminded me of a huge wave about to break , and it 's an uncomfortable thought trying to imagine where you might stop for lunch , and what would happen if you dropped your orange . |
| 20 | He was another senior photographer for Surfing and reminded me of a more weatherbeaten Errol Flynn . |
| 21 | ‘ Reminds me of a horse I knew once , ’ the farmer said , ‘ long time ago . |
| 22 | My heart tells me of a perfect flower in the centre of the garden and I move along the pathways , stopping to drink in some new and dazzling sight or scent that arrests me . |
| 23 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 24 | The story reminded me of a report I once received from an Advisor about a youngster who was out of school . |
| 25 | More happily , a colleague told me of a seventeen-year-old girl in his last parish who was cruelly told that she would be dead in a year . |
| 26 | Someone else told me of a friend who brought her ninety-year-old mother to visit her . |
| 27 | One woman told me of a particular year in which seven close relatives died . |
| 28 | His body was hairy , muscled , well-shaped , and when I saw him strip for bed he reminded me of a gorilla about to pounce upon its prey . |
| 29 | The late Martin Stevens always reminded me of a sort of roly-poly Noel Coward . |
| 30 | But a friend put some perspective into it when he told me of a recent visit to the Half Moon , a venerable pub venue in Putney : ‘ There were all these posters on the wall of bands from 20 and 25 years ago , and I thought , ‘ Cor , they must be valuable . ’ |