Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] us of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They constantly warned us of the danger of the roads , about the thieves and vagabonds who dressed in green or brown buckram and played Robin Hood in the dark forests or wastelands we passed through . |
| 2 | Over a cognac he gloomily informs us of the Japanese surrender . |
| 3 | This not only reminds us of the existence of a non-state section of education ( which as we write in mid-1987 seems set only to increase in size ) , but also in drawing attention to the relations between the state and non-state sectors , points out features of the conditions under which the former operates that are frequently taken for granted . |
| 4 | His ironic protestations — " " My wit is short ; ye may well understonde " " ; " " Blameth nat me … " " — serve only to remind us of the fact that here we have a court poet playing first the pilgrim-narrator " Chaucer " and then playing a churl . |
| 5 | The panel contains a cantharus which is comparable to that in the central roundel of mosaic B , North Hill.7 In the latter , the base and lower body of the cantharus do not survive , so depriving us of valuable comparative evidence . |
| 6 | I.M. Dalby , Osric Place , Newton Aycliffe : I was at Maynards in the Haymarket , Newcastle , training to be manageress at the Bishop Auckland branch , when a lady from the snack bar next door came in to tell us of the passing away of the King . |
| 7 | In fact where toxic substances are odorous , the odour can have a positive effect on health , effectively warning us of their presence . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman has changed his wording — at last , he did not accuse us of privatising HMI . |
| 9 | ‘ Not so , ’ replies the university ; ‘ give if you will ; withhold if you must but understand if you can what nature of community we are and do not deprive us of our freedom , the freedom to pursue , and to teach others to pursue , knowledge for its own sake in whatever guise it presents itself to us ; for that is of our very essence. , |
| 10 | ‘ He can not hear us of course , ’ said Fael-Inis . |
| 11 | The politicians will not tell us of what is happening to the environment . |
| 12 | Biological science can not tell us of the mind of a creature any more than it can understand the nature and functioning of our human minds . |
| 13 | But he does not tell us of the forty-four accusations which were brought against Cato at various times ( Plin . |
| 14 | Chronology of building forms can be established only approximately , and archaeology can not tell us of variations in the prosperity of a community from one year to the next . |
| 15 | ‘ Details are just reaching us of a major breakthrough in the Martian revolution , ’ Derek Carlisle announced . |
| 16 | Here and there Pippo dropped a bomb , but hardly ever on a village ; he came out of sheer perversity , we felt , just to rob us of our sleep . |
| 17 | Instead of the negation of all individuality , we are offered a parable of a single individual who , in his heroic struggle , " takes the whole Dionysiac world on his back and thus relieves us of that burden " . |
| 18 | But he does not remind us of the prophecy that hangs over them , or of the judgement pronounced by God upon the house of Eli . |
| 19 | Could you just remind us of what it actually means to the economy of this country . |
| 20 | So what had the old ICM hands not forewarned us of ? |
| 21 | office did not warn us of gales , most of them severe , and a large number of storm force tens . |
| 22 | If you formally notify us of your wish to cancel a policy * we will stop debiting your monthly payment . |
| 23 | We hate doing this because it could be handy information in the event the other party ever accuses us of a transgression . |
| 24 | I do not believe she would ever leave us of her own will . ’ |
| 25 | Frequently these words are purportedly used by the characters within the fabliaux , such as the examples quoted above from Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , but such terms are also quite often used by the narrators propria voce : in Le Pescheor de Pont seur Saine , " The Fisherman of Pont-sur-Seine " , for instance , a tale of sexual envy in a marriage , the narrator soon bluntly tells us of the couple that the man : ( He held her down |
| 26 | Periods of injury between 1972 and 1976 possibly robbed us of his best years . |
| 27 | She asks us if we would agree that Julia Roberts is the most stunning thing we 've ever seen , and we have to admit that Julia 's extraordinarily wide mouth and upturned nose always remind us of someone with their face pressed against a plate-glass window . |
| 28 | The order grew immensely wealthy and place names all over the country still remind us of lands that they once owned . |
| 29 | They also tell us of a field with the manor house in a ruinous condition . |
| 30 | Could all teams also inform us of the proposed date and venue of their tie so that we can send a photographer when possible . |