Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sweeper 's story reminded me of a tale told at Ross Carbery , County Cork . |
| 2 | I say advantage because if you were to close your eyes while playing , it would be impossible to say which guitar the Carlton 's neck reminded you of most . |
| 3 | Taken to its logical conclusion , this would present the deposition as a side-effect of the political community 's attempt to rid themselves of an unpopular group of upstarts . |
| 4 | Taken to its logical conclusion , this would present the deposition as a side-effect of the political community 's attempt to rid themselves of an unpopular group of upstarts . |
| 5 | Even in a ‘ sweep ’ movie [ see 5 ] like The Last Emperor , O'Toole 's Law deprived him of a Best Supporting nomination . |
| 6 | He was fortunate to have been accepted as a member of the new customs syndicate in 1667 before Clarendon 's fall deprived him of his patron ; but the lease was cancelled four years later , when the farmers sought guarantees against the heavy defalcations to be expected in the imminent Dutch war . |
| 7 | But Braque 's work contains none of the expressionistic violence of Picasso 's . |
| 8 | ‘ Sometimes you come in and feel optimistic because you have done your work the previous night and the morning 's work reminds you of how little progress you have made . |
| 9 | Tonson 's title-page said nothing of the sort ; only that the word-book offered for sale in 1693 was a new improved version . |
| 10 | The origins of this popular movement lie in the first wave of pressure for disarmament , which began with the emergence of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) in 1958 and ended in 1964 , with its decline in the face of the new Labour Government 's failure to rid itself of nuclear weapons . |
| 11 | Edward 's desire to rid himself of the burden and embarrassment of Scotland was shared not only by his subjects but also by the pope , whose concern for peace in England , a prerequisite for a crusade , was once again evident . |
| 12 | Michael 's parable reminded me of Jules Verne 's Albatross , a flying machine with seventy-six propellers , which was supposed to be modelled on the flight of a bird . |
| 13 | Hypocrisy of this kind derives from the agent 's conscience telling him of his evil , while his desire not to appear evil causes him to feign goodness . |
| 14 | Sweeney 's name pronounces him of the lineage of a man who sold human flesh for butchermeat , a ‘ demon barber ’ . |
| 15 | Wales had believed they were playing with the malevolent elements in the second-half , Armstrong 's kick disabused them of that notion . |
| 16 | ‘ Alas that a child of barely eleven summers must stand at the king 's elbow to remind him of his duty ! ’ lamented Elizabeth Woodville . |
| 17 | The driver 's cab reminded me of the bridge ofa ship and , as in mid-ocean looking into infinity , I could almost make out the curve in the surface of the earth . |
| 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 | Moreover , since Michael Heseltine 's departure , there is no one in Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet to remind her of the nature of Entrepreneurial Man . |
| 20 | Wycliffe 's manner betrayed nothing of his sharpened interest . |
| 21 | Reading Terkel 's book reminds me of driving from Washington DC to San Francisco . |
| 22 | Only the playwright 's doctor warning them of their responsibility should he die on the way , prevented them carrying out so insensitive a duty . |
| 23 | Yet Dysart 's expression reminded him of something else she had said : that Dysart and Clare had been arguing immediately before the explosion ; that there had been friction between them for some time . |
| 24 | Even though things do not go according to plan , Elmer 's idea offers lots of amusing possibilities . |
| 25 | Paneth and Peters knew about palladium 's ability to absorb lots of hydrogen and they wondered whether packing so much of it in between the palladium atoms might increase the chance of the hydrogen atoms bumping into one another , thereby fusing and producing helium . |
| 26 | HE DID NOT know why but , upstairs , Amelia 's house reminded him of a jungle . |
| 27 | Contrasting considerably from the Spartan angularity of Siobhan 's bungalow , Kim 's house reminds me of American homes I have seen , lavish with plum and antiques to imitate English country homes . |
| 28 | Because of the heat , the King 's mother wore none of her noses , but a Syrian half-veil , light as a kerchief . |
| 29 | I mean , there is one when she says that Bertha 's face reminded her of a vampire I suppose that 's probably the most Gothic moment . |