Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Either they win the faint gratitude of listeners by reminding them of the original with a faithful remake , or they rip the original to shreds and reassemble it in a manner pleasing to themselves .
2 These were the sort of respondents who nicknamed the fieldworker ‘ Tell her Nothin ’ and ‘ Nosebag ’ , and tried to assert informal checks on colleagues who were conversing with her by reminding them of the notepad and that she ‘ writes everything down ’ .
3 A.C.G. Hastings was reprimanded by High Commissioner Girouard for using military means to effect the subjugation of the cannibal Tula tribe ; to redeem himself he volunteered to subdue the equally unruly Awok without firing a shot , and did so — by reminding them of the fate of the Tulas and giving them two hours to surrender their weapons .
4 Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments .
5 Through their wholly unacceptable behaviour , keoi mark themselves apart from humans , while reminding them of the possibility of such behaviour .
6 I have sent out a memo to all staff reminding them of the procedure for sickness .
7 SCOTVEC has written to colleges reminding them of the availability of a devolved system of assessment for awards for which only one college provides the course .
8 Please encourage your classes to try their hand at poster designing , reminding them of the closing date for receipt at the Office is 17th March .
9 At the lasts two A.G.M. 's of the parent body , the Hong Kong Branch has failed to comply with the constitution in that they have not submitted a Branch Report for consideration by the A.G.M. The chairman of Standing Committee has subsequently written to the Branch on several occasions reminding them of the need to submit a report and so far , has not received a reply .
10 Someone will reach for a tin of fish-paste only to be brought up short by another member of the party reminding them that fish-paste is unclean , while someone else may get as far as the checkout with a year 's supply of baked beans , when , across the crowded shelves of the supermarket , comes a voice reminding them of the danger they are facing .
11 Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ?
12 Used to hit them on the arm , never on the head .
13 You do n't even have to hit them off the ground .
14 Perhaps there was someone behind me who was just about to hit me over the head .
15 ‘ Do n't worry … you can sleep alone — I can take a hint that I 'm not wanted without you having to hit me over the head with it , ’ he finished bitterly .
16 They were prepared to hit me on the head , were n't they ? ’
17 For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes .
18 Anyway today we had the scene where Matt had to hit me with the paddle sort of semi-accidentally .
19 If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro .
20 All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick .
21 Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores .
22 ‘ You might have heard me on the radio , ’ she said .
23 When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig .
24 take him on the outside , take him on the inside , take him on the outside , inside , outside , let him through outside , inside , in squeeze them between the lot of them look
25 waves push me to the side
26 Moreover , these activities are interactions between students , and as such may fail to alert them to the choice and ordering of information produced by native speakers .
27 Det Insp Brian Welfare , of Sussex CID , said that he had met the university 's residential advisers to alert them to the risk to other students .
28 Long after he left to become a flight engineer it continued to light them through the war and for many years after .
29 Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks .
30 Wilson 's Cabinet — jealous of a non-political and non-party intruder — had decided not to include me in the team .
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