Example sentences of "[vb past] me of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been conflicting stories as to whether Anthony had been intended , Wells having gone on record as saying he had been conceived in a moment of carelessness , professor Gordon Ray , who edited the West-Wells correspondence , as saying it was a deliberate attempt by Wells to keep Rebecca with him , and Rebecca herself as saying , ‘ Wells cheated me of all but one child . ’ |
| 2 | Two Bengali women in their twenties told me of many women they knew , and knew of , who were thus stranded . |
| 3 | A waitress told me of such an incident when she heard a rumour that her hotel management had appointed private detectives with the power to search staff homes — a not uncommon fear among hotel workers and one paralleling similar periodic fears in other occupations of this type . |
| 4 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 5 | I had found one honest man here , and that terrible , distant scream told me of another . |
| 6 | And er , I used to believe that plastics was good , before I met er , disillusioned me of this . |
| 7 | His work reminded me of that of Kyffin Williams , the Artist of Anglesey . |
| 8 | The name reminded me of that , but the peculiar detachment of shock prevented the reminder from disturbing me in the slightest . |
| 9 | Vermeer sprang to mind as there is also something about the intense luminosity of the effect of the light-boxes that reminded me of that unique concentration of light in paintings executed with the aid of camera obscuras ( ancestor of the camera ) . |
| 10 | It reminded me of that episode in Rudyard Kipling 's Kim where the boy is confronted with a shattered pot and comes under pressure to reconstruct it in his mind as it once was . |
| 11 | you reminded me of that . |
| 12 | It reminded me of all I disliked so much in the United States , of being called Ray before even shaking hands . |
| 13 | In the May issue of Latch On her article on knots reminded me of another tip — when using a length of yarn for a contrast marker ( on tension swatches or to mark the position for the sleeves , for example ) , make a small slip knot in the end of the yarn and place this on the needle . |
| 14 | I have to say that it rather reminded me of own early work . ’ |
| 15 | The serveuses reminded me of those I had seen in paintings by Monet . |
| 16 | Their neat bottoms reminded me of those of failed bullfighters . |
| 17 | It reminded me of those rooms they put guests in in horror movies — the sort where you know something horrible 's going to happen in the middle of the night . |
| 18 | The frame around them is extremely heavy , but I chose it because it reminded me of some of the heavier framed Victorian pictures that have a botanical feel . |
| 19 | Those days climbing at Swanage and the Lizard reminded me of some familiar truisms , so easily lost when one is chained to the desk : that the spice of adventure and uncertainty , faced in partnership with others who feel the same , is at the core of all good climbing . |
| 20 | After I was born she put on a lot of weight , and although eventually she lost most of it , my birth was seen as to blame for her weight problem , and throughout my childhood she reminded me of this . |
| 21 | He reminded me of this as we sat on the beach watching Ted and Carwyn having their hopes dashed on the Pipeline reef . |
| 22 | She smilingly reminded me of this at an audience six years later . |
| 23 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 24 | Do you remember the lady who rushed to your assistance last night and accused me of all those unspeakable designs on your virtue ? ’ |