Example sentences of "remind [pers pn] [prep] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though the railway companies wished to put their excursionists in the mood , remind them of the rather light-hearted , somewhat extravagant outing they were engaged upon , quite different from everyday commuting and business travel . |
| 2 | This man , who was soon joined by three friends , reminded me of the woozily friendly Galway people I had known in Brighton in the late sixties and early seventies . |
| 3 | The scene before me reminded me of the very similar scenes in the Highland crofts , the only difference being the now almost overpowering smell of onions . |
| 4 | It 's a favourite because it reminds me of the most exciting part of political campaigning : the roadshow . |
| 5 | The Angelfish Paul Donovan reminds us of the enduringly popular Angelfish , |
| 6 | ‘ One paper , by Paige ( 1967 ) , for example , quotes Lenin 's ‘ who does what to whom ’ , and Mao 's ‘ war without bloodshed ’ , reminds us of the more familiar formulations of Lasswell ( 1936 ) — ‘ who gets what , when , how ’ — , Easton ( 1953 ) — ‘ the authoritative allocation of values ’ — , Levy ( 1952 ) — ‘ the allocation of power and responsibility ’ , and Snyder ( 1958 ) — ‘ the making of authoritative social decisions ’ , and throws in for good measure a definition by a Japanese political scientist , Masao Maruyama — ‘ the organization of control by man over man ’ . |
| 7 | In her insistence on the range of masculinities in practice , and her argument that masculinity is structured through contradiction , Segal reminds us of the very real shifts achieved by feminists in setting a new agenda for women and men . |
| 8 | An Anglican priest , Father Bernard Schunemann , told the congregation : ‘ The terrible death of James reminds us of the very real possibility of evil , evil in ourselves , evil in each one of us , evil certainly in young people . ’ |
| 9 | Yet even within such an order there are enough complexities of signals , of a different kind — the ‘ command performance ’ , in honour of the already honoured ; the ‘ private view ’ — who has been invited to look in this privileged way ? ; the ‘ special performance ’ , for an audience of a socially selected type — to remind us of the always variable — historically and culturally variable-social organization and social function of art . |