Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nature , that framed us of four elements , |
| 2 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |
| 3 | Two Bengali women in their twenties told me of many women they knew , and knew of , who were thus stranded . |
| 4 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 5 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 6 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 7 | I told her of that woman novelist who made a character in Provence ladle out onion soup , followed by bouillabaisse for luncheon , and in summer too . |
| 8 | Indeed his sanguine response to his discovery lent colour to the story when it reached the evening news , and assured it of greater coverage than it might otherwise have merited , that focus in turn bringing a penetrating eye to bear on the identity of the dead man . |
| 9 | Tom told us of one horse whose molars on one side of the mouth were excessively short and on the other very long . |
| 10 | They told us of exciting events that had taken place in the valley below their house the previous year , the result of an attempted coup by Ras Hailu , the hereditary ruler of Gojjam . |
| 11 | The five-member tribunal sentenced each of them to life imprisonment with hard labour , and also stripped them of all property , civil rights and military rank . |
| 12 | She informed him of this conclusion , and with his usual calm he accepted it . |
| 13 | The War had emptied him ; stripped him of all illusions . |
| 14 | Some crafty young entrepreneurs steamed in and relieved her of several pairs of Pumas at a knockdown price . |
| 15 | When Molly joined him he would ask hopefully if she were feeling tired or , even perhaps more hopefully , as though it relieved him of all responsibility , if she had the curse . |
| 16 | ‘ Warton warned me of reciprocal traffic — probably out of the Isle of Man bound for Blackpool . |
| 17 | He hath put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree . |
| 18 | He did n't quite know why he 'd hoped that Alex could be cleared of the murder , but the confirmation of his friend 's guilt sapped him of all energy . |
| 19 | Yet not before he had been thoroughly frightened by the ghosts who warned him of terrible judgment . |
| 20 | A MOTHER accused of trying to turn herself into a human fireball because she had been rejected by the boss she loved , wept yesterday as a jury acquitted her of attempted arson . |
| 21 | He robbed them of all dignity . ’ |
| 22 | Another point relates to the fact that , in the first case , the jury acquitted the defendants of one charge and convicted them of Both charges arose out of the same facts . |
| 23 | And the touch of his scorching lips , the clasp of his arms , the close union with his warm , strong body robbed her of all strength and of all power of resistance . ‘ |
| 24 | Impatience with her own see-saw emotions robbed her of any desire for sleep . |
| 25 | Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students ; he showed him the terrible , the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to , or change it . |
| 26 | But a court at Bedlington , Northumberland , convicted him of criminal damage and ordered him to pay £1,100 for the damage . |
| 27 | Apathetically , I thought it of little use . |
| 28 | However in doing so you deprived us of detailed insights into the conditions of life in other parts of the world , and played into the hands of the New Right with its ‘ divide and conquer ’ tactics . |
| 29 | It reminded me of that episode in Rudyard Kipling 's Kim where the boy is confronted with a shattered pot and comes under pressure to reconstruct it in his mind as it once was . |
| 30 | Oddly , instead of reminding me of Bill , it reminded me of Old Red . |