Example sentences of "[verb] i of my " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes they 've stripped me of my cash for tonight . |
| 2 | The French Officer gets us all out of the ditch and the march continues for about four or five hours , then , during a rest in the wood , I fall asleep , my face among the leaves reminding me of my home in Scotland . |
| 3 | ‘ But , for your information , Doreen is no longer reminding me of my mother . |
| 4 | ‘ That you 're keen to finish what you started in St Lucia , so you 'd like to rid me of my inconvenient hang-ups ? ’ |
| 5 | It 's still not gon na relive me of my vocal duties , though . ’ |
| 6 | My aggressiveness towards the adults around me for putting me in such an invidious position was certainly unacknowledged and unconscious , and had my sisters not told me of my bullying tactics — which I had conveniently forgotten — it is likely that I should not be able to acknowledge it even now . |
| 7 | ‘ Your Grace , ’ she said quickly , ‘ even a year may deprive me of my best prospects . |
| 8 | The white tube , the cork-effect filter , the solid hot flare of the match and my lips tell me of my lungs as I make my own smoke , with its blue drifting and acrid smell . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me of my brother . ’ |
| 10 | Do n't you think she 'll cure me of my wickedness , Jane ? |
| 11 | She gently tells me of my mistakes , and praises me if I do well . |
| 12 | I detest the armoured , air-conditioned truck that deprived me of my final opportunity to desecrate the holy relic that is ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 13 | She had not asked me of my previous experiences . |
| 14 | Fergus held his breath ; he thought : now will she tell me of my parents ? |
| 15 | ‘ He robbed me of my childhood ’ |
| 16 | Because of you and the things you said — you were the one who robbed me of my confidence . |
| 17 | ‘ You , ’ said Scarlet , ‘ sometimes remind me of my mum . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ They remind me of my masks . ’ |
| 19 | Actually you remind me of my fucking Triumph |
| 20 | The smell of couscous and other grain which filled the air constantly reminded me of my own situation . |
| 21 | I was glad to hear the accent , for it reminded me of my exciting days in Northern Ireland , recounted elsewhere . |
| 22 | I was fond of her , she reminded me of my own kid back home . |
| 23 | ‘ You reminded me of my mother , darling . ’ |
| 24 | Pat always reminded me of my own shape — a reasonably well proportioned figure but very heavy on the hips and thighs . |
| 25 | It was projected by a thin young student at a concert where I was trying to do my performance , and it reminded me of my intentional projection of wrong words at the English Teacher when I was at school . |
| 26 | She reminded me of my mother because , coincidentally , she was also a middle-aged , Australian woman . |
| 27 | They reminded me of my patient , Cedric , and in an instant I was back in Darrowby answering the telephone . |
| 28 | The song reminded me of my ex-wife , only the group were trying for wistful melancholy and my associations were screaming nightmare . |
| 29 | She reminded me of my mother when I ( or she ) was very young ; the perfume upon my mother 's neck when she leaned over to say goodnight , a pearl of jade clinking warmly and lightly upon my chest , Mommy on her way to the Village Gate , to meet some dark Europeans , to catch an excellent set of jazz . |
| 30 | As I escorted Marinka to the Oasis Arena in the torrential rain , the scene of mimose reminded me of my halcyon days at . |