Example sentences of "me of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not many years ago I would have considered this rod as too stiff , robbing me of the enjoyment of feeling and seeing a good fish put a decent bend into it . |
| 2 | This is just to remind me of the feel of the rod and the weight of the tackle I am using . |
| 3 | The arched terracotta mount was chosen to remind me of the colour and style of Portuguese houses , and the frame was another easy choice because we saw so much dark wood furniture there . |
| 4 | Please inform me of the address of my niece , Jane Eyre . |
| 5 | ‘ Pray tell me of the king your brother 's plan , my lord , ’ she said softly . |
| 6 | I never wore the roll-neck out there again and as the years passed I was gradually given a large wardrobe of beautiful traditional dresses , which I wore with comfort and delight , each dress reminding me of the giver . |
| 7 | Pa talking like this reminds me of the witch in the Snow White video : ‘ Cymbeline 's bought you strawberries and ice cream m for tea , ’ it says . |
| 8 | You have failed in your attempt to convince me of the coincidence between the bourgeois and the human . |
| 9 | erm it 's it reminds me of the kind of embarrassments that we experience on a number of levels actually . |
| 10 | Bill Riffkind , a close friend of Sam 's , later told me of the fight . |
| 11 | You typed the articles , relieved me of the household chores and fed me royally . |
| 12 | He later told me of the adventure he had walking round the high netting accompanied by an airman on the other side of the wire . |
| 13 | The proprietor reminded me of the man who used to travel round the Forest villages killing pigs . |
| 14 | In her effort to record the delight she derives from such details , evidently travelling as far afield as the US and Turkey , her outdoor work recalls both the practice of Marjorie Content 's work of 1928 in picking out the pattern of urban activity and its settings , and Lee Friedlander when focusing on the witty suggestibility of statues and lamp-posts , while her interiors remind me of the work of Margaret Watkins of 1919 . |
| 15 | You have the intention permanently to deprive me of the petrol . |
| 16 | This reminded me of the story of how Dame Janet allegedly tried to relocate the ducks which meet and mate annually on the landscaped patch in front of the Commons and atop its underground carpark . |
| 17 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 18 | This is because it reminded me of the type of frame one might put around a tapestry or sampler , and I feel this symmetrical design is somewhat reminiscent of sampler work and needlework in general . |
| 19 | And — funny — my tender breast of chicken filled with garlic butter and herbs sauteed in sunflower oil with savoury rice and side salad reminds me of the chicken Kiev we occasionally buy in the supermarket . |
| 20 | The German mortar team reminded me of the Commando mortar team back in the orchard at Brigade H.Q when they were mortaring the German positions . |
| 21 | ‘ Reminds me of the duodenum , ’ said Rufus , yanking out a long slimy stem and lassoing Adam with it , catching his neck in a halter of living rope . |
| 22 | The matches are made of a wood so flimsy that it reminds me of the balsa with which I tried , unsuccessfully , to build model aeroplanes . |
| 23 | Deeper study has convinced me of the opposite . |
| 24 | It reminded me of the voice that had started all this , the night my dad died . |
| 25 | So dead bodies are hygienically whisked away by undertakers within a very short ti me of the person dying , funerals are conducted in twenty minutes at a busy crematorium with a bizarre queue of other funerals waiting in an approach way , and grieving people are expected to be back at their employment in as short a time as possible . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ This house reminds me of the cottage in Hertfordshire I had before I married , ’ she explains . |
| 28 | The thought of caged chicken reminds me of the occasion — I was about seven at the time — when my father lost his rather large , pompous cockbird who dominated his twelve wives . |
| 29 | ‘ When I first saw it in the distance , dominating the surrounding countryside , looking so magnificent , it reminded me of the Acropolis . ’ |
| 30 | I remember Chung telling me of the performance she had given with Tennstedt some years ago , a special experience for her , and this subsequent occasion resulted in a collaboration comparably searching and intense . |