Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] us of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They constantly warned us of the danger of the roads , about the thieves and vagabonds who dressed in green or brown buckram and played Robin Hood in the dark forests or wastelands we passed through . |
| 2 | Over a cognac he gloomily informs us of the Japanese surrender . |
| 3 | This not only reminds us of the existence of a non-state section of education ( which as we write in mid-1987 seems set only to increase in size ) , but also in drawing attention to the relations between the state and non-state sectors , points out features of the conditions under which the former operates that are frequently taken for granted . |
| 4 | His ironic protestations — " " My wit is short ; ye may well understonde " " ; " " Blameth nat me … " " — serve only to remind us of the fact that here we have a court poet playing first the pilgrim-narrator " Chaucer " and then playing a churl . |
| 5 | I.M. Dalby , Osric Place , Newton Aycliffe : I was at Maynards in the Haymarket , Newcastle , training to be manageress at the Bishop Auckland branch , when a lady from the snack bar next door came in to tell us of the passing away of the King . |
| 6 | Biological science can not tell us of the mind of a creature any more than it can understand the nature and functioning of our human minds . |
| 7 | But he does not tell us of the forty-four accusations which were brought against Cato at various times ( Plin . |
| 8 | But he does not remind us of the prophecy that hangs over them , or of the judgement pronounced by God upon the house of Eli . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Could all teams also inform us of the proposed date and venue of their tie so that we can send a photographer when possible . |
| 11 | In turn , this should also remind us of the limitations for the mosaicist of over-ornate sketches . |
| 12 | As a compact and multi-functional element colour denies verisimilitude , implying the ethereal , whilst simultaneously reminding us of the world of concrete phenomena . |
| 13 | The theme of the pack ‘ Tongues of Fire ’ immediately reminds us of the power of the Holy Spirit coming to the apostles at Pentecost and their going out to spread the gospel message fired up with enthusiasm and courage . |
| 14 | Sir : Jonathan Glancey ( Architecture ; ‘ Invisible buildings that reflect nothing ’ , 4 October ) does well to remind us of the spreading disease of the mirrored glass building . |
| 15 | We did n't mind being old fogey , as long as there was no one there reminding us of the fact . |
| 16 | The portrait of the leader of the Sicilian slaves , Eunus , irresistibly reminds us of the Posidonian fragment on Athenion . |
| 17 | Neither does the statement , ‘ All those coloured glass pictures of people which you see in the windows of churches , have been put there to remind us of the good which those people did during their lives . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State helpfully reminded us of the enormous changes and potential changes in the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | Graham Frater , our HMI Observer , continually reminded us of the hordes of textbook publishers who might reduce our recommendations to a series of useless exercises if we did not make our rationale abundantly clear . |