Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the goods have been dispatched , the manufacturer sends an advice note to the retailer informing him of the date and time of dispatch . |
| 2 | The African told him of the anger in the hearts of his generation . |
| 3 | That war robbed him of the prime of his career , when he was the best player in the world . |
| 4 | He needed no Bible to remind him of the life of Christ , and if ever he felt the need for a symbol upon which to concentrate his devotions , he satisfied himself by making the sign of the cross with his fingers . |
| 5 | She understood why Johnny had felt saddened when he had learned of their passing , and she smiled briefly as she recalled that she had never found the courage to tell him of the passing of that Empire , too — fearing that such knowledge could have precipitated an apoplectic fit ! |
| 6 | Byrkin had twice found out Holly to tell him of the sailing of the frigate Storozhevoy from the naval harbour at Riga . |
| 7 | Lewis became champion when unified title-holder Riddick Bowe unceremoniously dumped his WBC belt in a bin , and the angry Mexico City-based organisation stripped him of the title . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've enough evidence to convict him of the Englishman 's murder , anyway , ’ the marshal pointed out . |
| 9 | Oh yeah , he told me afterwards right , that he , the only reason he was angry was because Friday night reminded him of the time in his past or something ! |
| 10 | Sweeney 's name pronounces him of the lineage of a man who sold human flesh for butchermeat , a ‘ demon barber ’ . |
| 11 | The colour reminded him of the paintings of hell by the mediaeval painter , Ferdinand Breughel . |
| 12 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 13 | Unprompted , a farm labourer told him of the tradition of an old track precisely on the line where he had surmised the ley to be . |
| 14 | The farmer warned him of the danger of entering the stall . |
| 15 | The jury cleared him of the charges of criminal mischief , reckless endangerment and operating a vessel while intoxicated . |
| 16 | But the jury cleared him of the allegation . |
| 17 | The letter informing him of the sentence pronounced upon him was headed derisively : ‘ The Holy Synod to Nestorius the new Jew . ’ |
| 18 | I contacted the landowner immediately after the inquest to inform him of the result and gave him three coins , one for each of his sons . |
| 19 | Tyson 's past had come back eerily to haunt him — this time not in street violence but in the way Desiree Washington , a competitor in the Miss America Pageant accused him of the crimes that were to see the world heavyweight champion 's status reduced to that of a common criminal . |