Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] of their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would appear from time to time and taunt the old couple , reminding them of their past lives and the failures or mistakes which had brought them to the castle ( though never detailing them — neither Quiss nor Ajayi knew what the other had done to justify sending them here . |
| 2 | Perhaps one day an Ayrshire school or other organisation will pursue the theme and bring the peoples of the old and new worlds closer to each other by reminding them of their common bonds . |
| 3 | He had taken a group of talented individuals and moulded them into a superb team , ridding them of their old factions and weaknesses , and showing the disbelievers that black men were every bit as good as white . |
| 4 | The wind was growing stronger , whipping the branches of the trees and shredding them of their fading leaves . |
| 5 | ‘ Shih Clarac , ’ he answered , distancing the man at once and subtly reminding him of their relative status . |
| 6 | In the long-run , this money illusion will disappear as workers come to realise that price inflation is depriving them of their perceived increase-in real income . |
| 7 | That had seemed enough to placate the deputies , who are living in fear of a referendum being called on dissolving the Congress and depriving them of their privileged status . |
| 8 | As Wood and Wood comment , ‘ relating ideas to their social context ’ far from ‘ depriving them of their universal meaning ’ in fact ‘ rescues them from the emptiness of ethereal abstractions which have no human meaning at all ’ ( ibid. p. x ) . |