Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Drowning the typewriter reminded him of what he had done to the remains of Ivor Newley . |
| 3 | An ostler took the cavalryman 's horse while a liveried footman relieved him of his helmet and cumbersome sword . |
| 4 | Only then to my embarrassment did Alf tell him of our predicament . |
| 5 | He was fortunate to have been accepted as a member of the new customs syndicate in 1667 before Clarendon 's fall deprived him of his patron ; but the lease was cancelled four years later , when the farmers sought guarantees against the heavy defalcations to be expected in the imminent Dutch war . |
| 6 | Maybe Liam reminds him of something unhappy in his own childhood . |
| 7 | As we tunnelled our way through the steep rhododendron-canopied paths at Aros , Alistair said the rain , the humidity and the terrain reminded him of his ‘ spell in Assam during the War . |
| 8 | He thus technically became an Argentine citizen , and it needed eight years of negotiation between the two countries to relieve him of his obligation to do military service in Argentina . |
| 9 | Incognito , he worked as a ferryman and lived in Biddick boat-house for over twenty years , when a terrible flood robbed him of his possessions and his proof of identification . |
| 10 | Yeltsin signed a decree relieving him of his post on Oct. 23 . |
| 11 | Looking right then left he saw the signals with their warning lights reassuring him of their presence . |
| 12 | ‘ As a gesture of goodwill , I have decided to waive the charge on this occasion and have written to the gentleman informing him of my decision . ’ |
| 13 | Brutus then , a few lines later , claims no knowledge of her death when two of his officers tell him of it ( IV , iii , 141–92 ) . |
| 14 | Quite apart from what the organisers tell him of their intentions , he may have sources of information that have a bearing on how he comes to a conclusion about predicted outcomes . |
| 15 | You had only to ride out the storm — inside preferably — ’ with a flash of humour as the heavens reminded him of their still present threat ‘ — and the dust would soon have settled . |
| 16 | ‘ Alas that a child of barely eleven summers must stand at the king 's elbow to remind him of his duty ! ’ lamented Elizabeth Woodville . |
| 17 | If he hangs badly towards home or the other horses , he may need a kick or a smart smack with the whip to remind him of his job . |
| 18 | Hypocrisy of this kind derives from the agent 's conscience telling him of his evil , while his desire not to appear evil causes him to feign goodness . |
| 19 | ‘ I need only a letter from you to your bank manager instructing him of your wishes . |
| 20 | THE SON of a British Army officer yesterday described to the Aldington libel jury in the High Court how his late father told him of his ‘ horror ’ when he received the order to repatriate Cossacks at the end of the second world war . |
| 21 | Each time that Joyce looked in his shaving-mirror and whenever he caught the reflection of his face , the livid and disfiguring streak reminded him of what he had become . |
| 22 | The hospital would ring him in the morning to warn him of what they had discovered of Mrs Popple 's death upon doing the post-mortem . |
| 23 | Exhaustion strips him of his senses . |
| 24 | Perhaps after all it was nothing more than that the man reminded him of someone from the old days , and it was not unknown for people from the palace compound to slum in the harbour quarter now and then . |
| 25 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |
| 26 | What would he say when — if ! — Lady Merchiston informed him of her plan to make him marry her companion ? |
| 27 | Bishop Harris assures him of our loyal support |
| 28 | At that moment , a warning pressure reminded him of its menacing presence . |
| 29 | Their first approach , late at night in his hotel room , came a week after he had received his sister 's long and excited letter telling him of her marriage . |
| 30 | The letter telling him of his disgrace was delivered to him in prison . |