Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] him of the " in BNC.
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1 | He said his mother , Eva , who is Irish , had reminded him of the Klan 's history of persecuting Catholics . |
2 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
3 | Manuel had quietly melted away , perhaps to leave the stage clear for Andy , perhaps to grieve alone at the cruel injustice that had robbed him of the top prize . |
4 | This propaganda role of the church was no mere cynical response to royal commands and requests ; many of the clergy were quite as deeply imbued with a sense of national self-righteousness as were substantial elements of the laity : Edward III later recalled that Archbishop Stratford had persuaded him of the need for such a war , though the king also told a tale of Stratford 's reluctance for war . |
5 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
6 | His earlier work had convinced him of the importance of the home market in maintaining effective demand , so a new policy which emphasized its expansion was called for . |
7 | His work on fossils and on comparative anatomy had convinced him of the reality of species and the lack of missing links between them . |
8 | The nearest he had ever approached to any hint of levity was when he had stopped frowning for an instant the day that news had reached him of the death of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in Rome . |
9 | On Aug. 11 the Supreme Soviet in emergency session had deprived him of the additional powers granted on April 30 [ see p. 38916 ] , and , in a resolution passed on Aug. 14 on extricating the country from crisis , censured him for " indecisive and at times incompetent policy " and demanded that he and the government take all measures to implement the July peace agreement [ for which see p. 39010 ] . |
10 | Throughout his evidence , Price implicated the applicant ( whom he identified from a photograph ) in those dealings as the man who had informed him of the consignment of cannabis in Sweden , and had asked him and a man named Ryan ( who had also been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment ) to deliver it to customers in Sweden . |