Example sentences of "[verb] me of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The particular question that my hon. Friend raises is for my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , but I am grateful to him for reminding me of the precise statistics with which it is always sensible to be armed in any conference on the agreement . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A telephone call to establish whether I had been made redundant or , if not , to inform me of the administrative delay , would have been far more appropriate , and possibly cheaper , than a typed letter announcing the uncleared cheque and the administrative charge . |
| 4 | A former patient ( one who had never been regressed or even thought about the subject ) told me of a strange incident in her own family . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place . |
| 7 | One woman told me of a particular year in which seven close relatives died . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 10 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 11 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 12 | Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown . |
| 13 | Ranu , a Sylheti woman in her late twenties , told me of the enveloping love and care a woman with her first or second child can receive in Bangladesh . |
| 14 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 15 | My father told me of an old lady who to the end of her days referred to ‘ Amser Duw ac amser Lloyd George , ’ God 's time and Lloyd George 's time , for when the change was introduced during the Great War , there was chaos . |
| 16 | Wednesday there was a letter , an imprecation almost , from an investment company warning me of the dire consequences of not having a pension . |
| 17 | Most of the unexpected visitors were passing girl-friends of Roger 's , so I was surprised when he informed me of the pending arrival of a very special girl-friend . |
| 18 | ‘ Ah yes , ’ Leon turned to Mrs Yaxlee , ‘ your George has told me of the great days . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He tells me of a great battle his ancestors fought near Lake Victoria . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He tells me of the only time he has seen his mother drink ; her infant grandchild vomited on her coat , and she spouted a fine , volatile performance , screaming Christ Almighty the cross a woman has to bear , taking the Lord 's name in vain for the very first time . |
| 23 | Can you tell me of an English poet staying in these parts ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You know , Schatzie , the more I look at you , the more you remind me of a certain Titian . |
| 25 | ‘ You remind me of a wild animal sometimes , poised ready to flee at the first sight of a hunter 's gun . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You remind me of a medieval fresco I saw on a church in Donegal once . |
| 27 | In fact , they remind me of the Prudential TV ads ( ‘ I want to be in goal ’ , ‘ I want to be … remembered ! ’ ) . |
| 28 | The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing . |
| 29 | Now these messages remind me of the old Tarzan movies , now you were all old enough now to remember the old Tarzan movies . |
| 30 | 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 . |