Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] of [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless he wishes to strip me of his confidence . ’ |
| 2 | From that initial claim on your attention , he would proceed rapidly to inform you of his achievement in preserving the Albert Dock complex in Liverpool — now the largest tourist attraction in the north of England — from wanton , council-approved destruction ; of his professional status as author of the standard textbook on Concise Practical Surveying and the Structural Masonry Designers ’ Manuals ; of his intellectual attainment in completing a doctoral thesis in ten months ; of his physical prowess as a pensionable leader of Very Severe rockclimbs and skier down the most precipitous slopes . |
| 3 | Why had she set out to antagonise , to accuse him of her brother 's death ? |
| 4 | She agreed to avoid alcohol , and because the next session was not for a week , to telephone the therapist in 3 days time to inform him of her progress . |
| 5 | Stray whispers in a hundred distant-cousin tongues twittered through the ship , as if voices were trying to inform him of his fate , the ghost echoes from a million previous passengers , ten million down the centuries that this ship had been in service . |
| 6 | Sir Robert Dalyell of the Binns clearly saw himself in that light when , in 1760 , he approached Lord Milton to inform him of his wish to be of use to Milton 's politics in West Lothiah . |
| 7 | To inform us of your choice , please detach one of the stamps from the panel and affix in the space provided on your Entry Bond . |
| 8 | To inform us of your choice , please detach one of the stamps from the attached panel and affix it to the space provided on your ULTIMATE ENTRY BOND |
| 9 | ‘ The gun is merely to assure you of our seriousness . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It might be reasonable to assume that Mr Goodhaven did n't set the trap himself , to persuade me of his innocence , ’ he said , writing ‘ Henry Goodhaven ’ on the list . |
| 11 | It insisted on calling a separate meeting for the kolkhoz women , so as to persuade them of their independence from their menfolk . |
| 12 | It will be equally difficult to persuade them of your need when they know you spent a lot of money last week on a new car . |
| 13 | That 's why they want to reassure them of their treatment at the Police station . |
| 14 | She 'd promised to ring Dad , Charles and Lucy when she arrived , to reassure them of her safety . |
| 15 | It is sensible personnel practice to have a standard letter available to employees which they can use to notify you of their situation and intentions . |
| 16 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 17 | Spenser depicts Artegall also beheading his opponent in victory , but almost compassionately : ‘ He lightly reft his head , to ease him of his paine ’ ( V , XII , 23 ) . |
| 18 | Sir , — I congratulate you on the information you have been good enough to send me of your intention to publish a journal for Bishop 's Castle , and I beg leave to offer for your insertion a few remarks on what I think ought to interest your readers — the present position of the question of the extension of the line to your town . |
| 19 | Last month , following Johnson 's admissions at the inquiry that he had taken drugs and not failed drug tests , the IAAF decided to strip him of his world records retrospectively and enacted legislation which would punish any athlete who passed a drug test but subsequently admitted he was an offender . |
| 20 | Both Major and Hurd had met with Patten in London on Nov. 14 to assure him of their backing . |
| 21 | As Jim comes into office , with a complete commitment to Christ and to the work and witness of this fellowship , we need to assure him of our love and prayers and support . |
| 22 | The April 7 results gave Clinton a total of at least 1,264 of the 2,145 delegates required to assure him of his party 's nomination . |
| 23 | It was a ‘ secret garden ’ at least to David Eccles who when Secretary of State for the second time , in 1962 , was determined ( against the better judgement of many of its guardians ) to strip it of its secrecy . |
| 24 | They were obviously concerned that he and the Doctor were planning to rob them of their livelihood . |
| 25 | In Exodus 16 God replies with gifts designed to meet the people 's need with beautiful precision , to convince them of his compassion and his desire and power to save , and to remind them of his glory . |
| 26 | Blake told his superiors at MI6 that in order to win the confidence of the Russians he would need to give them enough genuine information to convince them of his sincerity . |
| 27 | She suddenly pulled herself up short and injected some huskiness into her voice , like a politician who wants to convince you of his sincerity . |
| 28 | there is an abiding dream in American literature that an unpatterned , unconditioned life is possible … there is also an abiding American dread that someone else is patterning your life , that there are all sorts of invisible plots afoot to rob you of your autonomy of thought and action . |
| 29 | What if , by her doing nothing , they were able to convince him of her treachery and turn him against her for ever ? |
| 30 | It was easy to convince him of his worthlessness-to make him believe he was capable of such an act . |