Example sentences of "[verb] us of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT WAS THE YEAR that electric cars were big but two-strokes were bigger as Jaguar told us of a supercharged two-stroke future and Pininfarina let us drive the Ethos . |
| 2 | Earlier in the debate , the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) told us of the Liberal Democrats ' proposals for a local income tax . |
| 3 | Hilary assured us of the continuing interest in Medau in Britain shown by the Medau Schule in Germany and teachers will be very pleased to learn that a new movement block in Coburg is to be named after Molly . |
| 4 | Not only does the text tend to be repetitious but each item of gear if prefaced by an otherwise blank page informing us of the Key Point to be gleaned in that section , pearls of wisdom such as : ‘ A file is useful for sharpening the edges of your … hooks . |
| 5 | This , and the quoted safe level for serum bismuth ( 10–50 µg/l ) reassures us of the low toxic potential for this enema . |
| 6 | This was a sort of celebration meal , as word had reached us of the successful British attack on Caen . |
| 7 | All the old historians when mentioning Hailing tell us of the old Manor of Langridge or Bavents , each one describes the antiquity of the Manor from Adam de Bavent to the various owners of their period until we reach William Baker . |
| 8 | New political thinking had " rid us of a confrontational approach in foreign policy " , making the Soviet Union " a country open to the world and to co-operation , generating not fear , but respect and solidarity " . |
| 9 | He warned us of the considerable social upset that these advances might cause . |
| 10 | When the whole structure is still , as it were , in two parts we have a noun phrase such that there is no reason to suppose that it has the property of the adjective ; when the structure is united we find first , that the property of the adjective does apply to the noun phrase , and , second , that the verb tells us of a temporal change . |
| 11 | Over and above all this , John tells us of the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit with the spirit of the believer , assuring him that God 's testimony to his Son is reliable , assuring him that the Christian experience is real . |
| 12 | So the mysteries of migration routes , which prompted this brief foray into the biological and geological past , is only one of a myriad miraculous facets of nature , of the greater Mind , that tells us of the great planetary drama in which life has existed , maintained within such finely balanced parameters , for hundreds of millions , if not billions of years . |
| 13 | ‘ I wonder if you might tell us of a local hostelry where I can purchase a good dinner ? |
| 14 | Nonetheless the characterization of the fabliau writer in the text is a worthwhile subject of study , for an assessment of the tone of the fabliau beyond anything it might tell us of the usual origins of such texts . |
| 15 | Having examined the fabric of a church , what can this tell us of the local landscape ? |
| 16 | If you need to obtain shareholder or to other approval prior to completion , you should inform us of the specific clearances that you need to obtain and confirm your ability to exchange contracts by Friday 1st December , 19XX . |
| 17 | Could all teams also inform us of the proposed date and venue of their tie so that we can send a photographer when possible . |
| 18 | ‘ Details are just reaching us of a major breakthrough in the Martian revolution , ’ Derek Carlisle announced . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State helpfully reminded us of the enormous changes and potential changes in the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | Over a cognac he gloomily informs us of the Japanese surrender . |
| 21 | Surely those were good questions which need answering , and to abandon the community interpretation deprives us of the only possible answer . |
| 22 | STEPHEN BROADBENT from Gloucester reminds us of a useful way of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 23 | None of this excuses their behaviour , of course , but this is an unusually human account of an all-too-human encounter in the streets which reminds us of a certain constancy of human motive , and of conflicts built around the human meanings that are attached to the social realities of class , physical appearance and territory . |
| 24 | The neck button disappeared — but not the buttonhole — and today a wedding boutonnière reminds us of the sporting ancestry of the coat . |
| 25 | The portrait of the leader of the Sicilian slaves , Eunus , irresistibly reminds us of the Posidonian fragment on Athenion . |
| 26 | The term ‘ emancipation ’ reminds us of the liberal aspiration — and indeed the Marxist claim — that self-knowledge and self-understanding can offer new possibilities for thought and action . |
| 27 | It reminds us of the deadly risks which our police officers run on on our behalf , day and night . |
| 28 | The fourth and most important implication of the placebo response is that it reminds us of the beneficial effect of the successful physician-patient encounter . |
| 29 | Johnson ( loc. cit. ) indeed , makes a good case for the mosaic as a product of a group of mosaicists based at Ilchester — an argument which , even if not accepted in detail ( section 4.8 ) , reminds us of the important affinities between this mosaic and others to the south . |
| 30 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |