Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each such pupil also receives a personalised letter reminding them of their entitlement to education and training , and guaranteeing them both an interview with an officer of the Careers Service and an offer of a place on a training scheme , in a job or in continued education . |
| 2 | but the unflappable soul gradually argues its way in past Peter , Thomas , Paul and finally God , nonplussing the saints by reminding them of their faults in life , but making a moral and liturgical claim on God 's final grace . |
| 3 | Efforts were made to send Jewish teachers with Jewish evacuees ( British and refugee ) , and a letter went out to all RCM children who had been uprooted reminding them of their faith and upbringing . |
| 4 | He pays tribute to his treatment at Gartree prison , he apologises to the bomb victims ' families that they have had to keep reminding them of their loss : ‘ But we had to fight for our freedom . ’ |
| 5 | Could he ruffle the smugness of manufacturing Whigs and land-owning Tories alike by reminding them of what hands such as these had done in France ? |
| 6 | The women who waited to greet them outside their huts wore bracelets of tin on their wrists and ankles , but otherwise their only other garment was a long dark cloth wrapped round the hips , which left their jutting , dark-nippled breasts uncovered . |
| 7 | Oh God they 'd look macha I 'd have to strap them under my arms ! |
| 8 | I had to strap them to my bicycle , which is why they look a bit battered . ’ |
| 9 | that was taught me by my grandmother , Annie Scanlon . |
| 10 | The humour inheres not just in the daffy selection of cultural allusions ( their native French accordion , some flamenco guitar , a few African horns ) but also in the way they take stiff , formal tempi ( waltzes and tangos ) and mockingly squeeze them for their stateliness . |
| 11 | The Abbey is now planning a fifth mailshot to alert them to their windfalls . |
| 12 | One day soon , Dr Kepepwe would do the trick — with luck before the war-damaged moved in to supplant me in her attentions . |
| 13 | The horns , though they properly belong to the brass group , are so frequently used as part of the woodwind ensemble that we feel bound to include them in our consideration of this orchestral group . |
| 14 | Even then , she 'd probably manage to mug me with her walking frame . |
| 15 | He offers them to his friends . |
| 16 | And the protesters ' anger was heightened when Environment Secretary Michael Howard refused to see them about their fears . |
| 17 | Jonna was not slow to remind them that he and Maisie hoped to see them at their wedding , due in a few weeks ' time at Easter . |
| 18 | Look at them closely before closing your eyes and trying to see them in your mind . |
| 19 | She found herself wondering idly whether , if she and Johnny were to make love now , here beneath the apple tree , Ben would be able to see them from his garden , or Mrs Draper from her bedroom window . |
| 20 | To see them within their realm , led me to understand why divers go on and on about fish and viz. And the viz was good . |
| 21 | ‘ No need to see me to my room , Alec , ’ she said , reaching for the candlestick . |
| 22 | He would not see me there ; he condescended to see me at my hotel . |
| 23 | She came to see me with her husband . ’ |
| 24 | I would have thought it would quite amuse you to see me with my hands full of spikes ! ’ |
| 25 | and she comes in to see me on her way home from work |
| 26 | Up to the day before I had hoped he would come with me at least as far as Perpignan , to see me on my way ; now there was no question of that , and indeed I could hardly wait to get away from him . |
| 27 | You may well be ashamed to see me after your noise and nonsense . |
| 28 | When our daughter Rebecca was three she came to see me in my office one day and said , ‘ Daddy , you 're the leader of the church , and you know everything . ’ |
| 29 | I was sitting in my office smoking one of James 's cigarettes — not the best thing , perhaps , for the queasiness I was still feeling , but I hoped it might calm my juddering nerves — when a poked page-boy knocked on my door and said the Old Man wanted to see me in his suite . |
| 30 | He came to see me in our hotel the night before we came to this country , and … |