Example sentences of "[verb] remind him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thankfully , he found St Erconwald 's fairly deserted except for Watkin to whom he gave strict instructions about the custody of the church , and Ranulf the rat-catcher who had come to remind him of his promise that if a Guild of Rat-Catchers were founded , St Erconwald 's could be their chantry church . |
| 2 | A single moment when she 'd reminded him of his sister meant nothing … |
| 3 | On this great day , when he cut the ribbon on a shop built to remind him of the Italian department stores of his childhood — ‘ they always had a restaurant , because part of the treat of shopping was lunching out ’ — he was so happy and relaxed that it was easy to swallow inhibitions and ask him whether he was n't bothered about being known , through the films he has chosen to dress , as the creator of designer violence . |
| 4 | It seemed to remind him of something . |
| 5 | There was no sign of infection , nor even scar to remind him of the accident . |
| 6 | Some of its humour happened to remind him of his friend Mike Nichols , who had just begun making a career directing plays on Broadway with the hit Neil Simon comedy Barefoot in the Park and Murray Schisgal 's Luv . |
| 7 | I 'm here to do a job of work and if dressing conservatively and ignoring his attempts at seductive banter are what it takes to remind him of the fact , so be it . ’ |
| 8 | When Les Dawson was a guest on the show , we discovered that he and Ken had been at school together , and Les could not resist reminding him of those happy days : ‘ The school we went to was so poor , if you put your hand up they thought it was a hold up . |
| 9 | I may have reminded him of his wife or daughter . |
| 10 | The haze in which all this fertility was bathed reminded him of Brion 's The Last Day of Creation . |
| 11 | She ached to remind him of all the wasted evenings with prospective investors : the long , boring meals with pompous bankers and their dull , provincial wives . |
| 12 | She leaned forward to address Simmons intending to remind him of the reason for her visit to the college , but he began to speak . |
| 13 | The child was christened Napoleon , Eugène , Louis , Jean , Joseph , and after his name in the baptismal register of ‘ the Imperial parish of Saint Germain l'Auxerrois ’ the Emperor wrote ‘ Son of France ’ , thus curiously reviving a custom of the ancien régime because , as he said : ‘ When an heir is born to perpetuate a national institution , that child is the whole country 's son : and this name will serve to remind him of his duties . ’ |
| 14 | Now all Tesselmann had left to remind him of Hans was a faded wool-lined overcoat . |
| 15 | It had none of the clinical efficiency of his mother 's , but it did remind him of his grandmother 's kitchen out on the farm , with its prosaic line of battered saucepans which shared a shelf with a large bowl for making bread and a hopeful looking collection of cake tins . |
| 16 | Pearce 's words when the six policemen had vanished had reminded him about Jimmy Devlin and his bizarre story of what had happened two years ago . |
| 17 | In the slow movement , he generally retired into his own thoughts , poetically outlining the melodic shapes with a lyrical softness , but then , suddenly , landing lumpily on a note , as if the reverie had reminded him of a reality . |
| 18 | He said his mother , Eva , who is Irish , had reminded him of the Klan 's history of persecuting Catholics . |
| 19 | He had told Fahfakhs that Tepilit had actually killed a lion for the film that Claudia was making with Leavitt , whose name I had reminded him of . |
| 20 | It was as if he said it not to me , but equally to everything around us ; as if she stood listening , in the dark shadows by the doors ; as if the telling of his past had reminded him of some great principle he was seeing freshly again . |
| 21 | Quentin had said that for a moment Kate had reminded him of Miss Trimm , and for another moment Lavinia imagined that : Kate at eighty-two , passionately involved with God . |
| 22 | Something she had said that had reminded him of it ; something she had said about it ? |
| 23 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 24 | Ken loved it all and wrote letters back to Orton which the playwright said reminded him of James Joyce . |