Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would never for one moment cross my mind to accuse you of being a sentimentalist . ’ |
| 2 | I spoke to him like a mother but he was determined to put an end to her life , so on 11 January 1987 , when Paulette was leaving the home of her friends on the way to her own home , [ the defendant ] stopped her and shot her and then placed a call to my home to inform me of the murder . |
| 3 | ‘ As your legal adviser , Mrs Quatt , I conceived it to be my duty to warn you of the possible consequences of your words . ’ |
| 4 | Miss Laverock would often drop into my office to tell us of her next celebrity concert , and she was generous with her courtesy passes . |
| 5 | But much exists in their architecture to tell us of the social conditions , wealth , success or decline of towns . |
| 6 | But she had to shake her head to clear it of the dizzy sensation . |
| 7 | Desiree Ntolo built it in her garden to remind her of Africa . |
| 8 | Next door 's dog jumps our fence and has dug under our sheds , chewing the wood away in her effort to rid us of rabbits ( no complaints , we love the dog ) . |
| 9 | She had dabbed powder over her lipstick to rob it of its bright crimson lustre , and she had forgotten the little pink patches of rouge that gave her cheeks their rosy healthy glow . |
| 10 | He switched the subject just as he had snapped his fingers to remind her of how she had switched off after Seville . |
| 11 | He was now using his powers to remind me of that as if the matter he was about to broach was more important than any spy . |
| 12 | In the second case , that where the wife agrees to become surety at the instance of her husband though she does not understand the effect of the document or the nature of the transaction , her failure to do so may be the result of the husband 's actually misleading her , but in any case it could hardly ever occur without some impropriety on his part even if that impropriety consisted only in his neglect to inform her of the exact nature of that to which she is willing blindly , ignorantly or mistakenly to assent . |
| 13 | She had consented to intercourse with him and would not have done so had she known of the disease , yet her consent was not vitiated by his omission to tell her of his bodily condition . |
| 14 | There was nothing in his house to remind him of Ecalpemos . |
| 15 | From 1689 a new form of service was established for that day , thanking God for discovering " the snares of death that were laid for us " in 1605 , " and likewise upon this day " for bringing King William " safely into this Kingdom , to preserve us from the late attempts of our enemies to bereave us of our religion and laws " . |
| 16 | In the first place , if you are being seen in a hospital out-patient department , the doctor who sees you should write to your GP to inform him of what treatment has been given . |
| 17 | You have failed in your attempt to convince me of the coincidence between the bourgeois and the human . |