Example sentences of "[vb past] me of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no more time for sight-seeing if I were to catch my train , but the helpful Matthews told me of martyr Sir Oliver Plunkett 's head , preserved in a church at Drogheda . |
| 2 | She told me of Mrs Bullivant , whose voice was true still but whose weight was such that — really … |
| 3 | At first I refused , but then he told me of Daniel 's murder , and said no-one would believe I was not implicated … ’ |
| 4 | The stage manager told me of John 's background and interest in theatre and that he ‘ was making himself useful ’ . |
| 5 | My nine-year-old son recently told me of dreaming of swinging violently in the hammock ( something he frequently does during the summer ) and falling out ( again , a frequent occurrence ) , but instead of landing on the ground he floated , and started a floating dream in which he effortlessly travelled around the garden suspended above the ground . |
| 6 | The design of the dress robbed me of breasts but revealed white angular shoulders which added an extra foot to my thin white arms . |
| 7 | It reminded me of Cenotaph , except the right wall overhung . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the countryside reminded me of East Anglia , the willows in particular making me realise how far I was from home . |
| 9 | The sharp-shouldered chairs in this joint , which reminded me of Selina 's torso and its erect triangularity , seemed specifically designed to give clients with sore backs a really rough ride . |
| 10 | His eyes , and Hareton 's , reminded me of Catherine . |
| 11 | In a strange way , big-wave riding reminded me of cricket . |
| 12 | Which reminded me of Oliver Moreton . |
| 13 | Salvatore may not be the world 's most handsome man , but it was the glint of ferocious determination in his eyes and the sweet smile he reserved for his team-mates in quieter moments that reminded me of Bri . |
| 14 | The view from the window there reminded me of Holland , a grass field , changed into swamp by the pouring rain , around it rows of little red houses with gardens and lights of the lamps that were lit ’ . |
| 15 | Cream-coloured Regency guest houses reminded me of Weymouth . |
| 16 | Not in his normal voice but in a low , throaty baritone that reminded me of Vincent price in The Haunted Palace — my dad 's favourite picture : ‘ Albert Roger Quigley , do you remember me ? ’ |
| 17 | Bruce Carver reminded me of Bill Murphy . |
| 18 | This saddened us all , but I suppose it was inevitable , and reminded me of things I saw during the 1940 Blitz on London when living in the northern outskirts of the city but working near Hadley Wood , with weekly trips down to our offices at Kings Cross railway terminus . |
| 19 | I thought about that scent ; there was something about it , something extra besides the smell that reminded me of Marcus 's bathroom . |
| 20 | Michael 's parable reminded me of Jules Verne 's Albatross , a flying machine with seventy-six propellers , which was supposed to be modelled on the flight of a bird . |
| 21 | Green-eyed , bemasked , conjuring up the ten-foot plus boards that could conquer the peaks of Waimea , Ken Bradshaw reminded me of Dr Rotwang in Metropolis instilling his robot with beauty and life . |
| 22 | Psychedelic green moss and bright yellow rhododendron leaves submerged in pools like goldfish reminded me of Aros on Mull . |
| 23 | They reminded me of pricks . |
| 24 | A lot of things reminded me of pricks when I was sixteen . |
| 25 | There , at Saintes-Maries , were girls who reminded me of Cimabue and Giotto — thin , straight , somewhat sad and mystic . |
| 26 | The star of that upsetting movie , Terence Stamp , reminded me of Dana at his most perverse and enigmatic , half-god , half-demon , lover and destroyer . |
| 27 | He was wearing chinos , and looked almost American , and there was something sexually magnetic about him that at once reminded me of Dana . |
| 28 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 29 | I remember a lingering preference for Ruth Etting because she reminded me of Marion Brown . |
| 30 | Some reminded me of Wei Jingsheng , in his fifth year of solitary confinement for daring to speak out and discuss the ‘ fifth modernisation ’ . |