Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth reminding him of the fact that Japan 's economy grew by 4.5 per cent. , and ours shrank by 2.5 per cent . |
| 2 | The particular question that my hon. Friend raises is for my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , but I am grateful to him for reminding me of the precise statistics with which it is always sensible to be armed in any conference on the agreement . |
| 3 | And we also have Monsieur Tran Van Lung here to thank , do we not , for reminding us of the great and unshakable dignity of the Orient . " |
| 4 | Er I think er if the honourable gentleman checks the record he will find that my right honourable friend said that America did not have a national statutory minimum wage but I 'm most I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman for reminding us of the international comparisons because he will know that the country in Europe which has embraced his policy of a statutory minimum wage is Spain and Spain has twice the level of unemployment of the European average and twice the level in this country . |
| 5 | Draping an arm about Seb 's shoulders , Noah said , ‘ Thank you for warning us of the magistrate 's approach , Seb . |
| 6 | To hurt Thérèse back for robbing her of the lady in the woods . |
| 7 | This is merely another way of reminding you of the technique of repetition examined in the section on Memory . |
| 8 | With subsequent context , however , even this can be interpreted as mediated through the mind of Pemberton , who after all is able to draw his own conclusions from Mrs Moreen 's fairly obvious strategy of ridding them of the boy 's company . |
| 9 | Philip French wrote in The Times , ‘ Once again , the considerable talent of Michael Crawford is squandered on feeble material , and he is excusably incapable of convincing us of the irresistible attraction of an insipid newcomer called Genevieve Gilles , who delivers her lines as if reading them from the small print of an oculist 's chart ( from which they might well have derived ) . |
| 10 | Of Malcolm McLaren 's collaborators at the time of the Sex Pistols , Jamie Reid gets a mention for persuading him of the importance of situationism , and Vivienne Westwood for producing a t-shirt slogan proclaiming how boring Derek Jarman 's Jubilee was . |
| 11 | So far as the old , mutually dependent carers are concerned , this work is valuable in reminding us of the substantial numbers of men who perform these functions for their wives . |
| 12 | You did us a great service in warning him of the threat to his life , Isabel . |
| 13 | In moral matters he confined himself solely to warning me of the dangers of masturbation . |
| 14 | At the time of his resignation Miyazawa had stated that an aide , Tsuneo Hattori , had purchased the shares without informing him of the transaction . |
| 15 | These were the sort of respondents who nicknamed the fieldworker ‘ Tell her Nothin ’ and ‘ Nosebag ’ , and tried to assert informal checks on colleagues who were conversing with her by reminding them of the notepad and that she ‘ writes everything down ’ . |
| 16 | A.C.G. Hastings was reprimanded by High Commissioner Girouard for using military means to effect the subjugation of the cannibal Tula tribe ; to redeem himself he volunteered to subdue the equally unruly Awok without firing a shot , and did so — by reminding them of the fate of the Tulas and giving them two hours to surrender their weapons . |
| 17 | Either they win the faint gratitude of listeners by reminding them of the original with a faithful remake , or they rip the original to shreds and reassemble it in a manner pleasing to themselves . |
| 18 | But her jaw had locked , as if she had been bitten by an animal that kills its prey by robbing it of the ability to eat or hunt , pant or lick , or even howl . |
| 19 | Of course a well-heeled litigant would still be able to frighten booksellers and newsagents by notifying them of the alleged libel and threatening to join them in the action unless they withdrew the offending publication from sale . |
| 20 | This helped developers by relieving them of the expensive negotiations they usually have to undertake . |