Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I never play again , no one can rob me of the memory , ’ he says . |
| 2 | British Waterways and the Ministry of Agriculture have been approached by fishing clubs in the region to help rid them of the menace which is depleting fish stocks in the canal . |
| 3 | In a drift away from the Auld Alliance , leading magnates appealed to the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth of England to help rid them of the French . |
| 4 | While you could manage a holiday in St Florent without transport , that would rob you of the chance to see more of the wonderful Corsican scenery . |
| 5 | If Bowe wins and opts for a first defence against veteran George Foreman , the WBC have confirmed they will strip him of the title and declare Lennox Lewis champion . |
| 6 | As the living room of his end-terraced council house in Cherrywood Drive , Beith , Ayrshire , became a court , Mr McTear admitted that even the awful price of his former 60-a-day habit could not rid him of the temptation . |
| 7 | Your sick parent must be mentally fit to make this decision of her own free will , and it does not rob her of the right to make her own decisions as to the spending of her money or her free access to it . |
| 8 | May God give you of the dew of heaven , |
| 9 | The national brewers , whose attitude to staff and tenants would bring a blush to the face of the average Victorian mill owner , object to new legislation that would deprive them of the right to evict tenants and their families at a moment 's notice . |
| 10 | It is a long established rule of law that where a contracting party refuses to perform his contractual obligations by giving a wrong reason , this does not subsequently deprive him of a justification which in fact existed at the time of refusal ( see Taylor v Oakes ( 1922 ) 27 Com Cas 261 ; Braithwaite v Foreign Hardwood Co Ltd [ 1905 ] 2 KB 543 ; and Fercometal SARL v Mediterranean Shipping Co SA [ 1989 ] AC 788 discussed in Chapter 15 ) . |
| 11 | The voice was Coleridge 's , arguing that although the war had been costly to the rich , it had left them much ; ‘ but a PENNY taken from the pocket of a poor man might deprive him of a dinner ’ . |
| 12 | Gifford , though he gave advice from his own experience , told him to take nothing on trust , but ‘ to cry mightily unto the Lord that He would convince him of the truth thereof ’ : he must work out his own salvation . |
| 13 | You can believe it of a cat . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd better apprise you of the situation to date . |
| 15 | ‘ Are you going to tell me your story , or do I demand it of the world at large ! |
| 16 | The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’ |
| 17 | No expert could tell me of a product to cure the problem . |
| 18 | I would be grateful if you could inform me of the person in your department who would be dealing with the register of Wildlife Sites . |
| 19 | He has been to my constituency recently , although he did not inform me of the fact . |
| 20 | Most of the reinforcements could not inform me of the health of Colonel Vaughan , but they all had vivid recollections of the most unusual weather conditions in the Highlands , and at the moment regarded their situation here in Normandy as an improvement on Achnacarry . |
| 21 | I have said we will be pleased to provide back-up with visitor 's packs etc and that I would inform you of the request . |
| 22 | If you have selected any messages to be printed , LIFESPAN will inform you of the filename in which your mail messages will appear in your current VMS directory . |
| 23 | LIFESPAN will inform you of the filename in which your mail messages will appear in your current VMS directory . |
| 24 | LIFESPAN will inform you of the filename in which your mail messages will appear in your current VMS directory . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , there were good times and bad times , ’ said Connor , adding reminiscently , ‘ Did I ever tell you of the night I stood up to Jack Johnson ? ’ |
| 26 | Although Shelley smiled only faintly , Byron roared with laughter and said , ‘ Let me tell you of an inscription I once saw scrawled on the wall of a low jakes in Chelsea . |
| 27 | An impressive feature of the early post-war Palace sides was the triumvirate of Alderson in goal , Little and Ernie Rhodes at full-back , and those who watched them play for the Palace will tell you of an understanding between them that bordered on the uncanny . |
| 28 | It does not mean that we have been made righteous as if we are perfect and free from sin , because our daily experience will tell us of the power of sin ; but it does mean that we are declared righteous . |
| 29 | Biological science can not tell us of the mind of a creature any more than it can understand the nature and functioning of our human minds . |
| 30 | That is , they must convict him of the offence which they think he probably did not commit . |