Example sentences of "they [verb] me of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over coffee and a home-baked cake they told me of their plans to marry her off . |
| 2 | They advised me of the best route to take home — and by the best they meant the most fun , not the quickest . |
| 3 | ‘ They suspect me of something — it is in the air — I am keeping something back . |
| 4 | They reminded me of pricks . |
| 5 | They reminded me of the passengers on board a hijacked plane , forced to fly to some destination they did n't want to go to , yet unable to get out of their seats to do something about it . |
| 6 | They reminded me of my patient , Cedric , and in an instant I was back in Darrowby answering the telephone . |
| 7 | I looked into his eyes and they reminded me of the saying ‘ The lights were on but there was nobody home . |
| 8 | In fact , they remind me of the Prudential TV ads ( ‘ I want to be in goal ’ , ‘ I want to be … remembered ! ’ ) . |
| 9 | ‘ You know , they remind me of myself thirty years ago when I was a student activist at Oxford , ’ enthused Horsley . |
| 10 | They remind me of a builder and a client discussing the positioning of proposed works . |
| 11 | Baywatch , Beverly Hills 90210 ; they remind me of what I left behind . |
| 12 | ‘ They remind me of my masks . ’ |
| 13 | They remind me of death . ’ |
| 14 | They remind me of tiny wooden houses on a Monopoly board . |
| 15 | they remind me of when I was at school . |
| 16 | They remind me of Liquorice All Sorts |
| 17 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 18 | But they accuse me of lying in my book . |