Example sentences of "[vb past] i of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They advised me of the best route to take home — and by the best they meant the most fun , not the quickest . |
| 2 | Ranu , a Sylheti woman in her late twenties , told me of the enveloping love and care a woman with her first or second child can receive in Bangladesh . |
| 3 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 4 | Later , over dinner , Mrs Knelle spiritedly told me of the sensation around Lough Corrib when President Reagan had stayed at Ashford Castle . |
| 5 | Bill Riffkind , a close friend of Sam 's , later told me of the fight . |
| 6 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 7 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 8 | Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown . |
| 9 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 10 | During a recent visit to an old people 's home , the officer in charge told me of the efforts she had to make to prevent the local children from taunting and mocking the residents-often through the windows . |
| 11 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 12 | He told me of the way the rivers were kept permanently netted for fish , of the illnesses associated with la Sologne , and of its politics . |
| 13 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 14 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |
| 15 | And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next . |
| 16 | He later told me of the adventure he had walking round the high netting accompanied by an airman on the other side of the wire . |
| 17 | He said he was a reporter and he told me of the death of the King , the news had just come through . |
| 18 | One banking employee told me of the demise of her bank branch . |
| 19 | In his address to the two houses of the Parliament he proclaimed : ‘ My reign does not date from 1815 ; it dates from the moment you informed me of the nation 's votes . ’ |
| 20 | Most of the unexpected visitors were passing girl-friends of Roger 's , so I was surprised when he informed me of the pending arrival of a very special girl-friend . |
| 21 | You typed the articles , relieved me of the household chores and fed me royally . |
| 22 | You deprived me of the chance to be there for him , and for my mother , when he was dying , because there were n't any jobs going in radio in Johannesburg at the time , so I had to go to Durban . |
| 23 | Some years later I was at dinner with Brian Huggett and he got up and said , ‘ I should n't be talking to this man because he robbed me of the British Open . |
| 24 | I had a mental picture of the conductor on the red London bus talking to Hammouda the village postman , of the English boy 's friends playing with Khadija 's grandson , especially Margaret , whose hair reminded me of the coloured feather duster Khadija 's grandson had pleaded for everytime he saw it in the market , thinking that it was a toy or a bird . |
| 25 | The descent was nerve-racking and it reminded me of the slow , queasy way light planes come in to land in Himalayan valleys . |
| 26 | The German mortar team reminded me of the Commando mortar team back in the orchard at Brigade H.Q when they were mortaring the German positions . |
| 27 | The scene before me reminded me of the very similar scenes in the Highland crofts , the only difference being the now almost overpowering smell of onions . |
| 28 | Recording this news reminded me of the valuable role played by Area Presidents in guiding their Area and representing the Areas at a variety of events and functions . |
| 29 | ‘ What really attracted me to this hat was its shape — it reminded me of the ones American tourists wear . ’ |
| 30 | It reminded me of the comparison the Stud Brothers made between you and |