Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are dozens of good points about eating plenty of fruit . |
| 2 | Yeah , well she was going on about bringing lots of money into the college but she might have to pay two hundred and twenty quid for a barn dance band if she 's not careful . |
| 3 | It is worth reminding him of the fact that Japan 's economy grew by 4.5 per cent. , and ours shrank by 2.5 per cent . |
| 4 | This kind of argument reads well in Callinicos ' hands , but it is worth reminding ourselves of the unattractive reality to which it bears witness . |
| 5 | The particular question that my hon. Friend raises is for my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , but I am grateful to him for reminding me of the precise statistics with which it is always sensible to be armed in any conference on the agreement . |
| 6 | ‘ Thanks for reminding me of what this is really all about , ’ she snapped . |
| 7 | And we also have Monsieur Tran Van Lung here to thank , do we not , for reminding us of the great and unshakable dignity of the Orient . " |
| 8 | I am grateful to the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) for reminding us of that in the last speech from the Opposition Back Benches . |
| 9 | Er I think er if the honourable gentleman checks the record he will find that my right honourable friend said that America did not have a national statutory minimum wage but I 'm most I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman for reminding us of the international comparisons because he will know that the country in Europe which has embraced his policy of a statutory minimum wage is Spain and Spain has twice the level of unemployment of the European average and twice the level in this country . |
| 10 | ‘ If she 's so keen to save a spot of money then she wo n't thank you for cheating her of eight grand . ’ |
| 11 | I said to Schur , after reminding him of his promise , ‘ Tell Anna . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There 's no such thing as a meaningless gesture , ’ he said , after emptying himself of that thought . |
| 13 | ‘ If Matilda sent you here after warning me of your ‘ usefulness ’ , she must be losing her mind . ’ |
| 14 | Following half-pay retirement in England , he embarked for India in 1817 and spent three years editing a Tory newspaper in Calcutta and acting as agent of a failed scheme to make the island of Saugor , at the mouth of the Hooghly river , an entrepôt and health resort , after ridding it of tigers ( hence his nickname ‘ Tiger ’ ) . |
| 15 | While the firm would not be compelled to disclose or utilise the information about B when advising A , the fact that it owes a duty of confidentiality to B will not necessarily constitute a defence to a breach of its duty of disclosure to A. If the firm is to be fully protected it must obtain A2 's consent to its acting in the conflict situation after informing him of its conflicting duties and the fact that it can not perform its full duties of disclosure . |
| 16 | Scorned girlfriend Kathryn George Harries , 29 , wreaked her revenge at the home of her 75-year-old lover after suspecting him of being unfaithful . |
| 17 | After assuring us of our sonship the Spirit sets out to reproduce in us the character and graces of the family into which we have been adopted . |
| 18 | A Greek court sentenced Muhammad Rashid , a Palestinian , to 18 years in prison on Jan. 8 after convicting him of premeditated manslaughter for his role in the 1982 mid-air bombing of a US Pan-Am airliner over Hawaii in which one person died [ see pp. 36563 ; 36667 ] . |
| 19 | Draping an arm about Seb 's shoulders , Noah said , ‘ Thank you for warning us of the magistrate 's approach , Seb . |
| 20 | She felt angry with others for robbing her of her ideal fantasy of motherhood . |
| 21 | To hurt Thérèse back for robbing her of the lady in the woods . |
| 22 | The means of salvaging something of the disposition is to recognize that so far as the daughter has benefited under her father 's will she may be obliged by a trust . |
| 23 | As the previous chapter shows , the development officers were rarely involved at all with those clients if they were in the action samples ; since in no real sense could they be said to have had the opportunity of availing themselves of the action project , they are omitted ( in both action and control samples ) from most of the following analysis . |
| 24 | And to the possibility of seeing something of the Sicilian town . |
| 25 | All the other times were just a way of reminding myself of the realities and provoking you at the same time . |
| 26 | It is often possible , then , to understand and so overcome spelling errors , once you understand why you are making an error and can work out a way of reminding yourself of the correct form . |
| 27 | Oddly , instead of reminding me of Bill , it reminded me of Old Red . |
| 28 | I toyed with the idea of reminding you of all my triumphs , of my prediction of the ‘ 87 stock market crash , of my warnings about the ERM and the dangers of Europe , about … |
| 29 | This is merely another way of reminding you of the technique of repetition examined in the section on Memory . |
| 30 | Much of Muskie 's political fame was earned from his leadership in environmental affairs , which was now being eroded not only by Nixon 's proposals but also by a Ralph Nader report on air pollution which strongly criticized Muskie 's role in the past and just stopped short of accusing him of selling out to industrial polluters ( Lundqvist , 1980 ) . |