Example sentences of "in [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then southern and eastern England had been extensively ravaged , and £137,000 paid in attempts to rid it of the enemy . |
| 2 | It is called Macrae 's Monument and is one of the few things left in Ayrshire to remind us of a very remarkable man called James Macrae . |
| 3 | As it happens , he would n't be arriving at the best possible moment : William Charles , 14 years his brother 's senior , was finding his own fame and fortune rather on the wane just at that time — he did n't need those supercilious letters from William Jowett in Jamaica to remind him of that . |
| 4 | Mr de Klerk telephoned Mrs Thatcher at the Conservative conference in Blackpool to tell her of the decision before it was announced in South Africa . |
| 5 | The piece of stone or the log of wood selected is treated in an elaborate manner in order to divest it of its inert nature and to infuse into it the power to contain the divine image . |
| 6 | I mention this not in order to remind you of the central heating that you have left behind , but to warn you not to get ill . |
| 7 | For example , if his son was suffering from rabies , Gandhi would consider it his duty to take his son 's life in order to relieve him of his agony . |
| 8 | The Financial Times of April 9 suggested that Ye , a reformist who had been building Guangdong into a " free-wheeling relatively autonomous province " , had been appointed to the new central post in order to deprive him of his regional power base . |
| 9 | First the court would sometimes place a strained or tortured meaning on the words of the exemption clause in order to deprive it of effect . |
| 10 | She has to put her life back in order to rid her of Fred whose antics are only adding to her problems . |
| 11 | The knowledge disappeared as quickly as it had come ; but it had come in time to remind her of why she had waited so anxiously for Johnny to visit her ; to remind her of why she had longed for his return with such a burning impatience . |