Example sentences of "remind him of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said his mother , Eva , who is Irish , had reminded him of the Klan 's history of persecuting Catholics . |
| 2 | The wide formal boulevards of Algiers , the plane-trees with their trunks painted white , the tall graceful white-painted houses with their balconies and shutters , the shade of the square reserved for Europeans : all these reminded him of the France he had loved so much as a child ; the towns of the South — Arles or Nîmes or Avignon , some of the small towns of the Loire . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She wrote a memorial to his brother George , now Prince Regent , Nelson 's friend , reminding him of the codicil which the national hero had made to his will leaving her and Horatia to the nation , and asking for it to be recognized in some tangible form . |
| 5 | The family spent their first night in the large attic , in the bedroom that was completely timbered , reminding him of the hold of a ship . |
| 6 | Afterwards Churchill is supposed to have sent a note to the Marshal , thanking him for his hospitality and reminding him of the details of their verbal agreements of the night before the morning after . |
| 7 | The commissioners were given detailed orders on the best way to proceed : they were not to summon more than twelve men at once and were to speak to each man alone , reminding him of the King 's work on his behalf . |
| 8 | He eventually slumps back into his seat , his smarting face and aching eyes reminding him of the misled thought journey that took him back round to before where he started . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not thirsty either , ’ he rasped , and his breath rattled in his lungs , reminding him of the dream that kept coming back , night after night . |
| 10 | It was cold , silent in the room , the scent of the candles reminding him of the tomb beneath the earth at Tongjiang . |
| 11 | Again we have asked Christopher Patten ( Minister for Overseas Development ) for support , reminding him of the government 's obligation to follow the agreed recommendations of the UN Decade for Women . |
| 12 | It is worth reminding him of the fact that Japan 's economy grew by 4.5 per cent. , and ours shrank by 2.5 per cent . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh Lord , look down upon this sinful child in his wickedness and lead him from his evil ways into righteousness If he is tempted again , remind him of the pains of Thy Hell , the torment and burning , so that he may quiver in his wretched flesh and repent in his immortal soul … |
| 14 | For the remaining half-hour she would be pleasant to him , and then she would quietly and purposefully remind him of the time , and with gentle dignity insist that he take her home . |
| 15 | I remind him of the disproportionate harm that the MacSharry proposals would cause and seek his assurance that he will bear in mind the Scottish farmers and all those elsewhere in Britain when he represents the interests of the British Government and the British farmer in Europe . |
| 16 | I remind him of the words of the Liberal Democrat pocket guide to Conservative party policy , published in 1991 , which stated , to its credit : ’ The Conservatives in 1979 recognised the need for change after three decades of stultifying corporatism . ’ |
| 17 | It reminded him of the big shots in the trade union movement having sandwiches at Number 10 all those years ago . |
| 18 | At demonstrations , he had seen faces ‘ filled with hatred ’ which reminded him of the months preceding Hitler 's rise to power in 1933 . |
| 19 | For his own good she frequently reminded him of the horrors and deprivations that would befall him there . |
| 20 | It reminded him of the zombies he had seen in the horror film at the Empire . |
| 21 | She reminded him of the Objectivist . |
| 22 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 23 | He said that looking out from the platform towards the town reminded him of the late President Kennedy looking out over the Berlin Wall . |
| 24 | They reminded him of the ignominious episode of the oath-taking , and pointed out that Rodrigo now had a personal ‘ army ’ almost as large as the King 's . |
| 25 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
| 26 | His brow was moist with perspiration as I reminded him of the broadcast . |
| 27 | The whole interview reminded him of the English card game in which you not only had to guess what cards your opponent held , but decide what he thought yours were , and so on . |
| 28 | A working ormolu and bronze lion mantel clock — Louis Quinze , he could almost hear his wife Carole exclaiming — reminded him of the relentless passage of time . |
| 29 | The rain had a fine and penetrating quality about it that reminded him of the oil you squirt from an aerosol can . |
| 30 | It reminded him of the vigorousness of Army life . |