Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 2 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 3 | Emilia , I think it of the utmost importance that … ’ |
| 4 | I remind him of the disproportionate harm that the MacSharry proposals would cause and seek his assurance that he will bear in mind the Scottish farmers and all those elsewhere in Britain when he represents the interests of the British Government and the British farmer in Europe . |
| 5 | Another time perhaps you will listen to me when I warn you of the dangerous ground you are treading . ’ |
| 6 | The average Council Tax payer , the council tax ca n't be more than , around four percent erm which reminds me of the last miracle budget we had , ninety eighty nine I think it was , again a Labour budget which I think was three point nine per cent increase then and the lowest rate of increase for twenty years erm and the highest level of growth erm . |
| 7 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 8 | Despite the much vaunted heating and ventilating system of the new police headquarters the windows of Wycliffe 's office were almost obscured by condensation and the air had a clammy warmth which reminded him of the tropical house at Kew . |
| 9 | They were welcomed by Guinness Brewing Worldwide Managing Director , who is chairman of the Guinness Group 's Pension Trust , and who told them of the latest developments at their former workplace . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | Telling the story , as she imagined it of the mad wife . |
| 13 | It was me who warned you of the Fascist element infiltrating at Danino 's . |
| 14 | A 19-year-old brunette who worked in ‘ Back and Sides ’ , an Arden hairdresser 's , she reminded him of the young Alma Cogan . |
| 15 | She had such colour , such brightness , that sometimes she reminded me of the whirling mosaics , except that she was n't fragmented but unusually complete . |
| 16 | Did she warn you of the new plot , and needed protection ? ’ |
| 17 | They advised me of the best route to take home — and by the best they meant the most fun , not the quickest . |
| 18 | They reminded him of the ignominious episode of the oath-taking , and pointed out that Rodrigo now had a personal ‘ army ’ almost as large as the King 's . |
| 19 | They reminded her of the cardboard kaleidoscope she had as a child , packed with coloured fragments , which she looked into for hours , turning and watching , turning and watching . |
| 20 | She kept clear of everybody in the house in case they reminded her of the ill person her uncle had become . |
| 21 | In fact , they remind me of the Prudential TV ads ( ‘ I want to be in goal ’ , ‘ I want to be … remembered ! ’ ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He warned us of the considerable social upset that these advances might cause . |
| 24 | Mr. Davies : When the Secretary of State next meets the chairman , will he tell him of the deep anger and resentment in west Wales that British Coal is walking away from the anthracite coalfield , with its enormous reserves of high quality and saleable coal ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Some years later I was at dinner with Brian Huggett and he got up and said , ‘ I should n't be talking to this man because he robbed me of the British Open . |
| 27 | He reminded her of the ancient tradition of Christianity in that part of Ireland , one that dated back to the first century after the crucifixion , before Rome was supreme . |
| 28 | He reminded her of the mad professor in her comics . |
| 29 | She wondered why he did n't step across it ; he reminded her of the white mice they had let out of the cage one day . |
| 30 | He reminded me of the tight-lipped heroes in war films — the name and number ploy ; more you will not get even if you carve strips off me . |