Example sentences of "[noun] remind him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The ceiling reminded him about the church , the roof had been mended but really it was little more than a pig sty . |
| 4 | ‘ Morning , ’ she said in a friendly voice , then pointed to the desk to remind him about the microphone . |
| 5 | ‘ We run the business , ’ Carrie reminded him with a severe look . |
| 6 | He said that looking out from the platform towards the town reminded him of the late President Kennedy looking out over the Berlin Wall . |
| 7 | He needed no Bible to remind him of the life of Christ , and if ever he felt the need for a symbol upon which to concentrate his devotions , he satisfied himself by making the sign of the cross with his fingers . |
| 8 | Oh yeah , he told me afterwards right , that he , the only reason he was angry was because Friday night reminded him of the time in his past or something ! |
| 9 | ‘ A boor who is spoken for , ’ Charity reminded him in an undertone . |
| 10 | The colour reminded him of the paintings of hell by the mediaeval painter , Ferdinand Breughel . |
| 11 | Quite what that meant is unclear and perhaps was unclear then ( the terms of the 817 Ordinatio would have needed updating anyway since Pippin I had died ) ; but the one thing that was perfectly clear was that Lothar was abrogating the 839 division-plan. |
| 12 | For no reason he could think of the rooms reminded him of a deserted stage set when the play has ended its run and the actors have gone . |
| 13 | The concavity beneath the hip-bone reminded him of a little valley high in the hills of Tuscany or Sicily , bare , smooth and satisfying . |
| 14 | A dissident intellectual passing out leaflets at a factory gate reminds him of a nervous child offering a sugar lump to a large horse . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It would be to let one maxim remind him of the treacherous limits of his information and the other of unconsidered consequences of delay , and try to fill both gaps in his awareness before letting himself be moved in one direction or the other . |
| 17 | It was cold , silent in the room , the scent of the candles reminding him of the tomb beneath the earth at Tongjiang . |
| 18 | HE DID NOT know why but , upstairs , Amelia 's house reminded him of a jungle . |