Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly the blue metal deposit , cobalt , was so named by miners because it was useless and troublesome , reminding them of harassment suffered at the hands of these GOBLINS . |
| 2 | Ahead of them a match flared and a lighted cigarette glowed briefly like a small bright beacon , reminding them of streetlamps and bonfires and shop windows blazing with light . |
| 3 | When you need to put pressure on someone , reminding them of time limits can increase their stress level and make them capitulate sooner rather than later . |
| 4 | This only serves to alert me of course , though my brain has already caught on . |
| 5 | Peter Banning ( Robin Williams ) is an American attorney turned corporate pirate , who wo n't find time for his children ( Charlie Korsmo and Amber Scott ) and sees no irony in accusing them of childishness . |
| 6 | Liberal writers ( including the poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Andrei Voznesensky ) attacked Russian nationalists in the Union 's leadership ( including Valentin Rasputin and Yuri Bondarev ) , accusing them of anti-Semitism , and threatened to resign . |
| 7 | Ali Rajavi , a first secretary at the Iranian embassy in London , was ordered to leave the United Kingdom by Aug. 25 , as announced on Aug. 14 , in retaliation for the expulsion in July of Geoffrey Brammer , a UK diplomat in Tehran [ see also p. 39027 ] ; on Aug. 15 the Iranian government ordered an Indian national employed as an accountant at the UK embassy in Tehran and two UK citizens to leave the country within one week , accusing them of involvement in " illegal activities " . |
| 8 | President Mugabe aroused the students ' anger last weekend with a speech accusing them of drinking and smoking too much and misbehaving rather than studying . |
| 9 | They regarded the higher officer ranks and the armed forces Chiefs of Staff as politically motivated and corrupt , accusing them of corruption and of being traitors to military ideals such as " national dignity " . |
| 10 | Those testing to these abuses often explained that their treatment was due to the intrigues of local government officials , who were accusing them of collaboration with the Contras . |
| 11 | You 're accusing me of complicity in fraud , is that it ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Why are you always accusing me of dishonesty ? ’ |
| 13 | are you accusing me of drinking and driving ? |
| 14 | They all hate me of course . ’ |
| 15 | Oddly , instead of reminding me of Bill , it reminded me of Old Red . |
| 16 | There were people bringing baking before going to work ; people carrying in the food given by our friends in City Centre businesses ; and ladies from St. Mary 's R.C. Cathedral arriving for duty in the Undercroft ; so many other helpers too , reminding me of Nan Munn 's immortal lines , ‘ each to their stations/We 're ready for the off/Where is John Gibson/Where 's my tin box ’ ; people handing in contributions ; Miss Cameron 's chauffeur , with dog collar instead of peaked cap , delivering her , before his car took up its privileged position for the Week in the Standard Life car park ; and last , and most important , the good friends in the community who came to support us . |
| 17 | I hung up the plastic sheet I had left soaking , rolled away those that had dried , scrubbed dried plaster from the table with the special remover , and wondered wearily how much longer it would be before the scent of wet plaster stopped reminding me of Marcus . |
| 18 | Their father who had started the business , although retired , was still usually to be found there , hovering in the background , his full white beard reminding me of Father Christmas . |
| 19 | There was one big mango tree , a couple of coconut palms , their tufted branches reminding me of Mother 's feather duster . |
| 20 | He accused the Government of ignoring the watchdog 's warnings and ‘ intentionally allowing ’ services to run down by starving them of money . |
| 21 | The Ministry of Education , now headed by rightwingers in the coalition , has indicated its intention to concentrate on formal sector education , marginalizing the literacy and popular adult education work which had been so important under the Sandinistas by starving them of funds . |
| 22 | What most people think is extraordinary is that after the government and Roosevelt came out with this thing , it would have been a perfectly human reaction of my father 's to say , well the hell with it , I wo n't give it to the nation if they 're going to accuse me of fraud . |
| 23 | To many in those days he would have reminded them of Jesus . |
| 24 | For example , Harvard Securities may have reminded them of Harvard Business School , although no claims of any connection were made . |
| 25 | Some of his displays have reminded me of Gerald Davies at his best — and I can give no-one a greater compliment . |
| 26 | In a vague way , I thought , he had reminded me of Derry Welfram . |
| 27 | At the same time , inspect and clean the gutters and rainwater gullies , emptying them of leaves and silt — finish off by flushing them with a bucket of warm water . |
| 28 | Well , the national secretary 's national officers are of course accountable to the C E C , they are accountable to congress , the introduction of section conferences means that they have another , an additional level of accountability , which does n't replace the accountability to the C E C or to Congress , but supplements it and subjects them of course to a closer scrutiny and a closer contact with the major activists in a whole sector of employment . |
| 29 | The former Sunsets band accused Stevens and a record producer , Dave Edmunds , of cheating them of royalty payments from their first album . |
| 30 | Naval tactics early in the war avoided such ship-to-fort confrontations ; but by 1943 the accepted practice was to blast coast defences , stripping them of camouflage , if not destroying their guns in sea and air bombardments that were timed so navy shells did not cut the path of strafing planes . |