Example sentences of "me of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ranu , a Sylheti woman in her late twenties , told me of the enveloping love and care a woman with her first or second child can receive in Bangladesh . |
| 32 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 33 | Two Bengali women in their twenties told me of many women they knew , and knew of , who were thus stranded . |
| 34 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 35 | Tara , a fourteen-year-old , told me of a sequence of events which , her friends agreed , was hardly an exception : |
| 36 | They advised me of the best route to take home — and by the best they meant the most fun , not the quickest . |
| 37 | Before my mother died she told me of a letter to me , held in the bank , which I was to receive on her death . |
| 38 | ‘ Everybody at the hospital seemed to be accusing me of causing the injuries . |
| 39 | ‘ She 's cured me of all my hang-ups by giving me self-confidence , ’ he says . |
| 40 | She reminds me of someone I seen — someone I knew really well . |
| 41 | There 's summat about these lights that remind me of Annie — I du n no what it is . |
| 42 | He do n't understand me of course , but he miaows like he 's saying yes . |
| 43 | I 'm glad she forgot her hairbrush — it really reminds me of her . |
| 44 | Looking at that picture reminds me of the photos of me and Marie — you know , them we took in that photo booth . |
| 45 | The battlegroup have already warned me of a third tank needing a new pack and the Commanding Officer wants everything fit for his final exercise tomorrow . |
| 46 | But I was thinking , looking at them — ’ he gestured towards the tourists — ‘ seeing them in a group , it reminded me of a time in cadet school . |
| 47 | ‘ I have no rational ground for going back on the arguments that convinced me of God 's existence : but the irrational deadweight of my old sceptical habits , and the spirit of the age , and the cares of the day , steal away all my lively feeling of the truth , and often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ We have both learnt our dialectic in the academic arena where knocks that would frighten the London literary coteries are given and taken in good part ; and even where you think me sometimes too pert you will not suspect me of malice . |
| 49 | ‘ What really attracted me to this hat was its shape — it reminded me of the ones American tourists wear . ’ |
| 50 | Did that commingling of unrelated flavours remind me of another dish , or had it produced a breakthrough in gastronomy ? |
| 51 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 52 | A friend once told me of a Northen Ireland tour back in the 1970s , by a group of bogus Wombles . |
| 53 | The me of 1989 exists and can gain money from the shares . |
| 54 | The me of 1999 does n't yet exist . |
| 55 | Most remind me of the Sinclair Spectrum games of a few years ago , but that last one is a typical Japanese ‘ happy jumpy scrolly ’ game — weird , but compulsive . |
| 56 | It reminded me of the comparison the Stud Brothers made between you and |
| 57 | This reminds me of two things . |
| 58 | All this reminds me of the ideas of Michel Foucault . |
| 59 | [ My father ] used to talk to me of books and take me to lectures . |
| 60 | You and Osman , you and the Fry , though you have told me of your perfect freedom and exchange of ideas etc. were never freer than Edward and I. Sometimes I wonder that I can speak to him as I do , never before having known a boy , and having only you at times to ‘ let out , on . |