Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The African told him of the anger in the hearts of his generation . |
| 2 | In 1935 Louis Aragon proudly proclaimed to the world that his encounter with communism and the revolutionary society of the Soviet Union had transformed him into an entirely new man , had rejuvenated him , re-educated him , and in the process cured him of the social disease of his bourgeois class origins . |
| 3 | He said that looking out from the platform towards the town reminded him of the late President Kennedy looking out over the Berlin Wall . |
| 4 | The competitiveness in the group reminded me of the casting board at drama school . |
| 5 | The proprietor reminded me of the man who used to travel round the Forest villages killing pigs . |
| 6 | The colour reminded him of the paintings of hell by the mediaeval painter , Ferdinand Breughel . |
| 7 | In its clarity and purity of form , the mosque reminded me of the best early Cistercian architecture — that brief and precious half-century before the original ascetic urge began to give way to the worldly frivolity of the Later Middle Ages , the period that produced the great Chapter House at Fountains and the original dark-stone nave at Rievaulx . |
| 8 | The jury cleared him of the charges of criminal mischief , reckless endangerment and operating a vessel while intoxicated . |
| 9 | But the jury cleared him of the allegation . |
| 10 | The farmer warned him of the danger of entering the stall . |