Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] i of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building reminded me of a con-servatory , the walls being made from small panes of glass . |
| 2 | The story reminded me of a report I once received from an Advisor about a youngster who was out of school . |
| 3 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
| 4 | My man in the sombrero tells me of an incident at Goldsmith 's Mexican estate two weeks ago which has severed relations for the foreseeable future . |
| 5 | The boy in the daylight reminded me of a bird , a bold curious bird . |
| 6 | In a way the sound reminds me of a small-bodied Gibson from the '30s or '40s , but with more volume and a clearer bass end . |
| 7 | The sound reminds me of the bass sound on all those expensively-produced American AOR albums — smooth , almost too clean , but live there 's an enormous amount of wallop available . ’ |
| 8 | Visually , the body reminds me of a Schecter or Tom Anderson and if it was n't for Aria 's distinctive headstock you 'd be hard pushed to tell this was n't a £1500 guitar from a few feet away . |
| 9 | The competitiveness in the group reminded me of the casting board at drama school . |
| 10 | The smell of the place reminded me of a kipper factory . |
| 11 | The proprietor reminded me of the man who used to travel round the Forest villages killing pigs . |
| 12 | Some of the scenery between the city and the seaside reminds me of the industrial landscape around Mephistco Plant Number Three , but the light 's even duller . |
| 13 | In its clarity and purity of form , the mosque reminded me of the best early Cistercian architecture — that brief and precious half-century before the original ascetic urge began to give way to the worldly frivolity of the Later Middle Ages , the period that produced the great Chapter House at Fountains and the original dark-stone nave at Rievaulx . |
| 14 | Willie pulls himself up the stairs reminding me of an elderly praying mantis . |
| 15 | My disagreeable reaction to the photos reminded me of the way I — and a host of others — responded to the last major American exhibition of Koons ' work two years ago . |
| 16 | This talk of laughing all the way to the bank reminds me of a delightful line from Shakespeare : |
| 17 | The situation reminded me of an announcement made on a flight over the Himalayas . |
| 18 | The landscape reminds me of the west coast of Ireland , of Inishere , the smallest of the Aran Islands on which I once spent a few days — the same tradition of building walls to clear land as much as to protect . |
| 19 | The lip reminds me of a sun-split tomato . |