Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they travelled west , along the same route that the young cadet had come , they met travellers who told them of the horrors of the revolution . |
| 2 | Mr Crowden told them of the terms of the will and suggested that Violet 's legacy seemed a poor reward and that it might be improved . |
| 3 | She told them of the hardships suffered by our men . |
| 4 | During a recent visit to an old people 's home , the officer in charge told me of the efforts she had to make to prevent the local children from taunting and mocking the residents-often through the windows . |
| 5 | Athelstan told him of the visits to the death house and the gibbet . |
| 6 | When Vivien appeared on the set badly made-up , with her wig perched ridiculously high on her head and refusing to alter a single thing , Asher reluctantly called Olivier and told him of the problems . |
| 7 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 8 | Unable to hold his excitement , Clark telephoned Professor Frank Cox of King 's College London and told him of the results . |
| 9 | Felipe 's possessive attitude rid her of the attentions of Peter Rainford and when Felipe offered to show them Ana 's skills neither of them looked overjoyed . |
| 10 | Only Ember cared enough to come and talk to her ; from what he told her of the others , both the towered and the plain , she was glad . |
| 11 | I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | She had heard tales of the sunshine , the flowers and bright colours of the upper world , but her father warned her of the perils that haunted the surface , in particular the giants that in those days walked the wilds of Dartmoor . |
| 14 | The officer did not invite the defendant to express a preference for giving blood or urine but warned him of the consequences of failure to provide a specimen and gave him the opportunity to put forward any reasons why a specimen of blood could not be taken by a doctor . |
| 15 | During his tours of the Middle and Far East Duncan Sandys was made well aware by British Governors , High Commissioners and Commanders-in-Chief of the political and military risks that he was taking ; and local political leaders , like the Tunku Abdul Rahman in Malaya and Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore , warned him of the dangers of creating power vacuums that could be exploited by the Communist powers . |
| 16 | ‘ You warned him of the perils , of course ? ’ |
| 17 | He immediately insisted that Hank should tell his parents , and warned him of the evils of leaving school without succeeding in obtaining the magical Grade 12 , without which there was no hope , he insisted , of leading a normal life . |
| 18 | He reminded me of the circumstances of the incident resulting in that conviction which er was in fact that erm had actually er fired a weapon at a person causing injury . |
| 19 | ‘ What really attracted me to this hat was its shape — it reminded me of the ones American tourists wear . ’ |
| 20 | After Richard reminded me of the problems I was about to face following that first flight , I was n't looking forward to the next flying lesson . |
| 21 | They reminded me of the passengers on board a hijacked plane , forced to fly to some destination they did n't want to go to , yet unable to get out of their seats to do something about it . |
| 22 | He reminded her of a clothes peg-selling or paper-flower-hawking gipsy , who would raid the henhouse or seduce the maids or steal the washing from the line or all three together . |
| 23 | Pink flowers like willow herb clustered along a dried-up river bank , circling birds reminded her of the vultures in westerns . |
| 24 | The colour reminded him of the paintings of hell by the mediaeval painter , Ferdinand Breughel . |
| 25 | For his own good she frequently reminded him of the horrors and deprivations that would befall him there . |
| 26 | It reminded him of the zombies he had seen in the horror film at the Empire . |
| 27 | At demonstrations , he had seen faces ‘ filled with hatred ’ which reminded him of the months preceding Hitler 's rise to power in 1933 . |
| 28 | While he was exploring the river he was attacked by a group of Indian women warriors who reminded him of the Amazons ( female warriors who appear in ancient Greek myths ) . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it did add to royal pressure upon the archbishop and further reminded him of the realities of royal power : in 1285 he petitioned for the relaxation of the statute , especially in respect of grants to parish churches , but Edward reserved his right to licence — to confer or withhold favour . |
| 30 | The jury cleared him of the charges of criminal mischief , reckless endangerment and operating a vessel while intoxicated . |