Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] him of [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The whole interview reminded him of the English card game in which you not only had to guess what cards your opponent held , but decide what he thought yours were , and so on . |
2 | Even in a ‘ sweep ’ movie [ see 5 ] like The Last Emperor , O'Toole 's Law deprived him of a Best Supporting nomination . |
3 | The African told him of the anger in the hearts of his generation . |
4 | In 1935 Louis Aragon proudly proclaimed to the world that his encounter with communism and the revolutionary society of the Soviet Union had transformed him into an entirely new man , had rejuvenated him , re-educated him , and in the process cured him of the social disease of his bourgeois class origins . |
5 | Just on half-time , a long ball from Milne put him through within excellent shooting distance of Thomson , but McCart 's late intervention robbed him of the golden chance to break the deadlock . |
6 | That war robbed him of the prime of his career , when he was the best player in the world . |
7 | He said that looking out from the platform towards the town reminded him of the late President Kennedy looking out over the Berlin Wall . |
8 | Lewis became champion when unified title-holder Riddick Bowe unceremoniously dumped his WBC belt in a bin , and the angry Mexico City-based organisation stripped him of the title . |
9 | Oh yeah , he told me afterwards right , that he , the only reason he was angry was because Friday night reminded him of the time in his past or something ! |
10 | The colour reminded him of the paintings of hell by the mediaeval painter , Ferdinand Breughel . |
11 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
12 | Three Shield centuries , all made briskly , in the 1934–35 season ensured him of a place on Vic Richardson 's Australian tour of South Africa the following season , and he contributed steadily with two sixties and smart fielding as Australia , with their mighty spin attack , forged to a 4–0 victory . |
13 | Unprompted , a farm labourer told him of the tradition of an old track precisely on the line where he had surmised the ley to be . |
14 | The farmer warned him of the danger of entering the stall . |
15 | Word reached him of a Corsair in southern France , and after viewing the airframe , Harris purchased it from the French authorities for $ 1,000 , and shipped it to San Francisco in early 1974 . |
16 | The concavity beneath the hip-bone reminded him of a little valley high in the hills of Tuscany or Sicily , bare , smooth and satisfying . |
17 | The jury cleared him of the charges of criminal mischief , reckless endangerment and operating a vessel while intoxicated . |
18 | But the jury cleared him of the allegation . |
19 | HE DID NOT know why but , upstairs , Amelia 's house reminded him of a jungle . |
20 | Tyson 's past had come back eerily to haunt him — this time not in street violence but in the way Desiree Washington , a competitor in the Miss America Pageant accused him of the crimes that were to see the world heavyweight champion 's status reduced to that of a common criminal . |