Example sentences of "[to-vb] us of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir : Jonathan Glancey ( Architecture ; ‘ Invisible buildings that reflect nothing ’ , 4 October ) does well to remind us of the spreading disease of the mirrored glass building . |
| 2 | Alayn , too , immediately afterwards , manages to remind us of the sexual sense of " to ride " in his farewell to Malyne : The miller , too , is like a horse in his sleep ; in his case , however , in his unselfconscious drunken snoring and farting ( 4162 ) . |
| 3 | It is hard to judge how effective MI6 is today because on the only recent occasion it was needed , to warn us of the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982 , it either failed completely or the Foreign Office deliberately presented MI6 's information to the government in a way that precluded it being taken seriously . |
| 4 | When called upon to tell us of the exemplary conditions in his new factories at Bournville , Mr Cadbury — his looks belying his years and status — refused to blow his own trumpet and blushingly declined to speak . |
| 5 | But much exists in their architecture to tell us of the social conditions , wealth , success or decline of towns . |