Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newcomer listened in his turn to the description Mrs Zamzam had given me of the events that led her to run away from Um Al-Farajh , occasionally nodding agreement or interrupting to correct her account . |
| 2 | The veiled women had reminded me of the nuns . |
| 3 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 4 | He said his mother , Eva , who is Irish , had reminded him of the Klan 's history of persecuting Catholics . |
| 5 | Scarlet was relieved , since Camille 's adolescent smile had reminded her of the expression on the face of some ancient , alien reptile . |
| 6 | He was some stray who had reminded her of the Scarabae agent . |
| 7 | Mrs Robinson , who a few months before had been the mother of a happy and united family , found herself alone in the world ; an inscrutable fate had robbed her of the children who might have consoled her widowhood . |
| 8 | This propaganda role of the church was no mere cynical response to royal commands and requests ; many of the clergy were quite as deeply imbued with a sense of national self-righteousness as were substantial elements of the laity : Edward III later recalled that Archbishop Stratford had persuaded him of the need for such a war , though the king also told a tale of Stratford 's reluctance for war . |
| 9 | Her encounters with Timothy had continued and it was he who had told her of the birth of Andrew 's son a year after his marriage . |
| 10 | After Mr Bush had told her of the US military action by telephone at 7am , an hour after his troops moved in , Mrs Thatcher told reporters : ‘ I believe he was right to do so . |
| 11 | His earlier work had convinced him of the importance of the home market in maintaining effective demand , so a new policy which emphasized its expansion was called for . |
| 12 | His work on fossils and on comparative anatomy had convinced him of the reality of species and the lack of missing links between them . |
| 13 | He had relieved her of the reading aloud and rewriting . |
| 14 | News had reached them of the happenings at the manor and they rightly assumed that with Tom in charge of the manor farm they were not likely to be evicted from their forest camp . |
| 15 | The nearest he had ever approached to any hint of levity was when he had stopped frowning for an instant the day that news had reached him of the death of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in Rome . |
| 16 | Unless she felt it because her dismissal from that job had deprived her of the sight and sound of Luke Scott ? |
| 17 | In response , Robert Gelbard , who ended his three-year term as US ambassador on July 5 , stated that Alcoreza was corrupt and that the whole naval contingent in Santa Ana was protecting the drug traffickers and had informed them of the raid . |
| 18 | Throughout his evidence , Price implicated the applicant ( whom he identified from a photograph ) in those dealings as the man who had informed him of the consignment of cannabis in Sweden , and had asked him and a man named Ryan ( who had also been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment ) to deliver it to customers in Sweden . |