Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] he of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news . |
| 2 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 3 | I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’ |
| 4 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 5 | I told him of the change in men like Alec Smith , Elliott Gabellah and Arthur Kanodereka . |
| 6 | I was quite surprised at his reaction when I informed him of the death of ‘ Egg and chips twice ’ . |
| 7 | His brow was moist with perspiration as I reminded him of the broadcast . |
| 8 | At demonstrations , he had seen faces ‘ filled with hatred ’ which reminded him of the months preceding Hitler 's rise to power in 1933 . |
| 9 | Despite the much vaunted heating and ventilating system of the new police headquarters the windows of Wycliffe 's office were almost obscured by condensation and the air had a clammy warmth which reminded him of the tropical house at Kew . |
| 10 | What would he say if she told him of the background that had left her with a deep and enduring mistrust of men ? |
| 11 | ‘ You warned him of the perils , of course ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Those words , read literally , might be taken to indicate that the order for possession in itself deprived him of the protection of the Act . |
| 13 | She reminded him of the Objectivist . |
| 14 | A 19-year-old brunette who worked in ‘ Back and Sides ’ , an Arden hairdresser 's , she reminded him of the young Alma Cogan . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , but it suits me perfectly , Luke , ’ she disabused him of the conceit with a blistering smile . |
| 16 | While he was exploring the river he was attacked by a group of Indian women warriors who reminded him of the Amazons ( female warriors who appear in ancient Greek myths ) . |
| 17 | They reminded him of the ignominious episode of the oath-taking , and pointed out that Rodrigo now had a personal ‘ army ’ almost as large as the King 's . |
| 18 | He told him of the goal that has held him through three years in the University of the North — a campus from which student riots have spread through the country . |
| 19 | Eating quail 's eggs , he frowned as he reread the letter from Lloyd 's : it warned him of the amount that he would shortly be expected to produce in settlement . |
| 20 | It reminded him of the big shots in the trade union movement having sandwiches at Number 10 all those years ago . |
| 21 | It reminded him of the zombies he had seen in the horror film at the Empire . |
| 22 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 23 | It reminded him of the vigorousness of Army life . |