Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tempted by his ardour , Ayesha warns him of the danger if she does as he desires . |
| 2 | Paul uses it of the Spirit , without any indication of any outward sign . |
| 3 | Sure , the ambiguous title allows 30 seconds of salacious conjecture , but that double-bluff ‘ Ha ha ha ha ha ha ’ non-chorus scores a direct miss , and the sound of five men bashing around in the darkness in search of a tune merely drains you of the will to live . ’ |
| 4 | This , and the quoted safe level for serum bismuth ( 10–50 µg/l ) reassures us of the low toxic potential for this enema . |
| 5 | He wrote that it was ‘ not cruel to animals but , rather , indulgent to men … since it absolves them of the suspicion of crime when they eat or kill animals ’ . |
| 6 | This forewarns us of the issue of SELECTION which will be taken up in Chapter 2 . |
| 7 | It urges them t to press for full prosecution disclosure and advises them of the frequent need to obtain their own evaluation of prosecution scientific evidence . |
| 8 | He tells me of the only time he has seen his mother drink ; her infant grandchild vomited on her coat , and she spouted a fine , volatile performance , screaming Christ Almighty the cross a woman has to bear , taking the Lord 's name in vain for the very first time . |
| 9 | So the mysteries of migration routes , which prompted this brief foray into the biological and geological past , is only one of a myriad miraculous facets of nature , of the greater Mind , that tells us of the great planetary drama in which life has existed , maintained within such finely balanced parameters , for hundreds of millions , if not billions of years . |
| 10 | In this issue , Ruby Johnston tells us of the experience of a group of nurses in Ireland who have had to adapt to the challenge of this new way of working with communities . |
| 11 | Over and above all this , John tells us of the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit with the spirit of the believer , assuring him that God 's testimony to his Son is reliable , assuring him that the Christian experience is real . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | I think er , Joe , it might be more appropriate perhaps if our legal advisor tells us of the niceties of the clause which he drafted . |
| 14 | Many things are told to the reader throughout the novel through conversation or through reading something such as the reading of the tombstone which tells us of the death of Pip 's parents . |
| 15 | It 's also a colour of cold — and we have n't had much of a summer this year — but at the same time it reminds me of the warmth and tranquillity of a Claude Lorrain . |
| 16 | Looking at that picture reminds me of the photos of me and Marie — you know , them we took in that photo booth . |
| 17 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 18 | All this reminds me of the ideas of Michel Foucault . |
| 19 | It 's a favourite because it reminds me of the most exciting part of political campaigning : the roadshow . |
| 20 | And — funny — my tender breast of chicken filled with garlic butter and herbs sauteed in sunflower oil with savoury rice and side salad reminds me of the chicken Kiev we occasionally buy in the supermarket . |
| 21 | The landscape reminds me of the west coast of Ireland , of Inishere , the smallest of the Aran Islands on which I once spent a few days — the same tradition of building walls to clear land as much as to protect . |
| 22 | The thought of caged chicken reminds me of the occasion — I was about seven at the time — when my father lost his rather large , pompous cockbird who dominated his twelve wives . |
| 23 | ‘ Not a native of these waters , that 's for sure , ’ growled another member of the group , ‘ look at that mouth , reminds me of the Missus . ’ |
| 24 | As both a guitar fetishist and a hi-fi victim I read with interest the letter from Jonathan Simmonds in the June issue , since his comments about Eric Johnson 's ability to hear the difference between jack plugs reminds me of the debate in the hi-fi world a while back about whether interconnect and speaker cables made any difference to the sound of a system . |
| 25 | The sound reminds me of the bass sound on all those expensively-produced American AOR albums — smooth , almost too clean , but live there 's an enormous amount of wallop available . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Reminds me of the duodenum , ’ said Rufus , yanking out a long slimy stem and lassoing Adam with it , catching his neck in a halter of living rope . |
| 27 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 28 | ‘ This house reminds me of the cottage in Hertfordshire I had before I married , ’ she explains . |
| 29 | That reminds me of the time a group of schoolgirls wrote to the newsroom to say they liked to swim off the Gower in the middle of winter . |
| 30 | It reminds me of the time I went to a school in Clevedon to interview one of the masters , David Bryant , who was the greatest bowls player in the world and a star in his own right . |