Example sentences of "[verb] remind [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 2 | Agnes nodded and smiled at her ; then , as Nan came behind the counter , she whispered to her , ‘ His lordship has reminded me of the time . |
| 3 | The Brazilians want to remind themselves of the British style before they meet Scotland in Italy . |
| 4 | And I want to remind you of the history of when amalgamations take place , because a number of people have touched on that very point this morning . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was no sign of infection , nor even scar to remind him of the accident . |
| 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 | The point behind many of these affirmations is to keep reminding oneself of the obvious fact that in a situation where it is clearly impossible to be perfect , to be less than perfect is the best one can be . |
| 9 | But a little nagging voice at the back of her mind kept reminding her of the way he had blown up the taxi rank after Anthony died . |
| 10 | She kept reminding herself of the stories about him in the gossip columns , of his reputation as a womaniser . |
| 11 | She leaned forward to address Simmons intending to remind him of the reason for her visit to the college , but he began to speak . |
| 12 | I hope that as you use it through the year , it will serve to remind you of the life-saving work you are helping to make possible for children throughout the world . |
| 13 | A recent pronouncement by a former Education Minister serves to remind us of the kind of thinking we must guard against . |
| 14 | The wildfire growth of the Boy Scouts serves to remind us of the enormity of the Edwardian era 's preoccupation with its youth , and the groundswell of not only national enthusiasm but also deep funds of social anxiety . |
| 15 | The word serves to remind us of the importance of that element so far not introduced into the discussion : diplomacy . |
| 16 | The veiled women had reminded me of the nuns . |
| 17 | He said his mother , Eva , who is Irish , had reminded him of the Klan 's history of persecuting Catholics . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 20 | Scarlet was relieved , since Camille 's adolescent smile had reminded her of the expression on the face of some ancient , alien reptile . |
| 21 | He was some stray who had reminded her of the Scarabae agent . |
| 22 | Alayn , too , immediately afterwards , manages to remind us of the sexual sense of " to ride " in his farewell to Malyne : The miller , too , is like a horse in his sleep ; in his case , however , in his unselfconscious drunken snoring and farting ( 4162 ) . |
| 23 | History provides us with no guide as to how all this will work out , but it does remind us of the need for sensitivity when dealing with powerful social forces . |
| 24 | John Bums , President of the Local Government Board , when introducing the first legislation with ‘ town planning ’ in its title in 1909 declared : These objectives may seem happily optimistic when contrasted with subsequent achievements , but they serve to remind us of the tension that always exists in town planning between the engineers and the sociologists ( Goldsmith 1980:Ch. 7 ) . |
| 25 | Now , suddenly I had to remind myself of the truth . |
| 26 | So that morning I went to the College library and began trying to remind myself of the intricacies of French verbs . |
| 27 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 28 | It will help to remind ourselves of the challenge that Eglantine Jebb took up . |
| 29 | The arched terracotta mount was chosen to remind me of the colour and style of Portuguese houses , and the frame was another easy choice because we saw so much dark wood furniture there . |
| 30 | We need to remind ourselves of the nature of judicial authority in the context of fundamental questions of constitutional law , as discussed above ( pp.33–41 ) . |