Example sentences of "[verb] us of a [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 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I wonder if you might tell us of a local hostelry where I can purchase a good dinner ? |
| 5 | ‘ Details are just reaching us of a major breakthrough in the Martian revolution , ’ Derek Carlisle announced . |
| 6 | STEPHEN BROADBENT from Gloucester reminds us of a useful way of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Our thanks go to Mrs Margaret ( Peggy ) Kaye , a member of the Fareham Branch , and an ex-pat WAAF , who writes to us from Orlando , Florida to tell us of a moving memorial service that took place at Arcadia , Florida on 27 May 1991 . |