Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually slumps back into his seat , his smarting face and aching eyes reminding him of the misled thought journey that took him back round to before where he started . |
| 2 | Most parents of children at poorer schools already know about those schools , though they do not have the information to confront the governors , teachers and heads to urge them of the need to improve the school . |
| 3 | The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing . |
| 4 | These songs remind us of the deeds and of the character of God , as does the psalmist who sings : |
| 5 | You do n't have to write these things in great detail — in fact you would stop the learning flow If you did so ; it is enough to put the page number and one or two words to remind you of the significance of what is contained there . |
| 6 | My parents accused me of the murder of my brother . |
| 7 | ‘ Now then , ’ the magistrate continued smoothly , ‘ I understand that in the course of a telephone call yesterday afternoon the kidnappers informed you of the whereabouts of a letter from them , and that this letter was subsequently recovered . |
| 8 | By then southern and eastern England had been extensively ravaged , and £137,000 paid in attempts to rid it of the enemy . |
| 9 | Riders from the Empire sent word to Bretonnia , Kislev , and the southern kingdoms warning them of the inevitable approach of the armada . |
| 10 | In early 1991 after the Australian Federal Court found the Tobacco Institute of Australia guilty of publishing misleading information about the health effects of passive smoking , Quit wrote to 175 000 organisations informing them of the decision and inviting them to participate in its workplace campaign . |
| 11 | He thereupon immediately wrote to Kingsway Motors informing them of the situation and claiming the return of his purchase price . |
| 12 | Now these messages remind me of the old Tarzan movies , now you were all old enough now to remember the old Tarzan movies . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , he was retained and the secretary was instructed to write to the parish officers informing them of the same ; they were told to pay the subscription within a few days otherwise Spies would be discharged from the infirmary . |
| 14 | We have sent out more than 1 million letters to individual customers to advise them of the change that we are making and the benefits inquiry line has provided back-up information for those who have received such letters . |
| 15 | This nightmare of processing phantoms reminds us of the procession of daemons from Phaistos , which could have been seen in the sort of opium trance de Quincey described . |
| 16 | If these variations remind us of the history of the Alps , then so much the better : we may find a better balance to the continuing battle between development and conservation . |
| 17 | Quite what that meant is unclear and perhaps was unclear then ( the terms of the 817 Ordinatio would have needed updating anyway since Pippin I had died ) ; but the one thing that was perfectly clear was that Lothar was abrogating the 839 division-plan. |
| 18 | It was , as Steve Hammond said , all there , but there was nothing , she realised , in all those pages to tell her of the particular hell this couple must have been through . |
| 19 | Betty thanked her for the bucket and smiled at her , and Lydia , who , if Betty went on like this , might turn out to be quite human , decided that she would take her her breakfast in bed in the morning : thin crispy toast with a scraping of butter and golden clear jasmine tea , and an egg-cupful of harebells to remind her of the sky . |
| 20 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 21 | SCOTVEC has written to colleges reminding them of the availability of a devolved system of assessment for awards for which only one college provides the course . |
| 22 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 23 | If the arrivals and departures list has already been circulated , a change of room notification slip must be sent to all departments informing them of the room change . |
| 24 | As both a guitar fetishist and a hi-fi victim I read with interest the letter from Jonathan Simmonds in the June issue , since his comments about Eric Johnson 's ability to hear the difference between jack plugs reminds me of the debate in the hi-fi world a while back about whether interconnect and speaker cables made any difference to the sound of a system . |
| 25 | The lack of coins deprives us of the evidence to form any assessment of their dynastic histories or tribal boundaries . |
| 26 | Pink flowers like willow herb clustered along a dried-up river bank , circling birds reminded her of the vultures in westerns . |
| 27 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 28 | In her effort to record the delight she derives from such details , evidently travelling as far afield as the US and Turkey , her outdoor work recalls both the practice of Marjorie Content 's work of 1928 in picking out the pattern of urban activity and its settings , and Lee Friedlander when focusing on the witty suggestibility of statues and lamp-posts , while her interiors remind me of the work of Margaret Watkins of 1919 . |
| 29 | The technique by which in the fourth century B.C. the Chronicler rewrote and modernized the Books of Kings reminds us of the technique by which in the late fourth century Ephorus and Theopompus rewrote and modernized Herodotus and Thucydides . |
| 30 | My disagreeable reaction to the photos reminded me of the way I — and a host of others — responded to the last major American exhibition of Koons ' work two years ago . |