Example sentences of "it [verb] him of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It assured him of his right to be here and he picked it up and put it in his jacket pocket before walking through into the hall with its white doors leading to the reception rooms . |
| 2 | When Molly joined him he would ask hopefully if she were feeling tired or , even perhaps more hopefully , as though it relieved him of all responsibility , if she had the curse . |
| 3 | Eating quail 's eggs , he frowned as he reread the letter from Lloyd 's : it warned him of the amount that he would shortly be expected to produce in settlement . |
| 4 | Cinnamond was greatly disquieted by the move as it deprived him of guidelines on which to base his reply . |
| 5 | On the lighter side it reminded him of Stamford and he wondered how Burden had got on . |
| 6 | It reminded him of shop stewards with their sleeves rolled up in those endless conferences when it was said that the country was being held to ransom . |
| 7 | It reminded him of the big shots in the trade union movement having sandwiches at Number 10 all those years ago . |
| 8 | A Brazilian said it reminded him of London during the Falklands war . |
| 9 | It reminded him of dogs with wet coats , or very old people , or mouse droppings . |
| 10 | It reminded him of pirates and buccaneers and fearless men who roamed the high seas in search of adventure . |
| 11 | It reminded him of the zombies he had seen in the horror film at the Empire . |
| 12 | It reminded him of another mad suggestion from a man in California , offering the contras $50m if they would go and take over Malta . |
| 13 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 14 | It reminded him of a veined glass marble he had once owned as a boy . |
| 15 | He liked that contempt , that resentment ; the first time he saw it in the boy 's face he knew it reminded him of something , but it was weeks before it came to him what it was . |
| 16 | Masklin quite enjoyed it ; it reminded him of his days as an Outsider , before they found the Store . |
| 17 | It reminded him of the vigorousness of Army life . |
| 18 | Strange because it reminded him of other bedroom partings : sheets tangled , sweat cooling , confusion and self-reproach keeping glances at bay . |
| 19 | He knew , now , what it reminded him of . |
| 20 | It reminded him of himself . |
| 21 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 22 | It reminded him of that moment years before when she had drawn and aimed the bow . |
| 23 | It reminded him of his own inadequacy ; it made Arabella 's betrayal all the worse ; it had given Newley the courage to think of divorcing Georgina . |
| 24 | But it reminded him of what he wanted to say . |
| 25 | It reminded him of Sandhurst , except that the instructors there had always bellowed their orders and called their charges by various unsanitary epithets . |
| 26 | Willis was much more cheerful and said it reminded him of a boarding house in the old days . " |
| 27 | Graham frowned as he passed it , partly at its loud white-lettered tyres and obtrusive styling , but partly because it reminded him of something ; something to do with Slater , with Sara even . |
| 28 | It reminded him of his boyhood reading . |
| 29 | Ken said — he came for Sunday lunch now , often with his stepdaughter but without his wife , who felt awkward in Ellen 's presence — that it reminded him of a kitten he 'd given Wendy on the day she gave birth to Apricot . |
| 30 | It reminded him of something — a picture , a picture in a story book . |