Example sentences of "[pron] remind him of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd at first said , ‘ wild flowers ’ , but I reminded him of what had happened at Caroline 's wedding . |
| 2 | He said I reminded him of her . |
| 3 | I reminded him of my advice that he should not have renounced the Upper House so speedily . |
| 4 | Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers . |
| 5 | ‘ Michel said I reminded him of his audience at the time when he made speeches . |
| 6 | Lord Wilson found nothing untoward about the quality of that Chequers discussion when I reminded him of it in conversation more than ten years later . |
| 7 | When I remind him of our agreement now he tells me to get lost . |
| 8 | Which reminds him of me and he is fast out of his reverie . |
| 9 | In the sky shines the star which reminds him of his childhood . |
| 10 | There was a note in her voice which reminded him of his sisters , and he smiled to himself . |
| 11 | In Small World the middle-aged English academic Philip Swallow has a wife called Hilary and has a passionate affair with a younger woman called Joy , who reminds him of his wife when she was younger and prettier — when he first meets her , Joy is even wearing a dressing gown like one Hilary used to wear . |
| 12 | Aline said , ‘ Maybe you reminded him of his long-lost youth . ’ |
| 13 | She reminded him of somebody from a movie , maybe it was Kathleen Turner in Body Heat , sometimes Kim Basinger in 9½ Weeks . |
| 14 | Now she reminded him of his mother ! |
| 15 | She reminded him of someone he had known as a young man . |
| 16 | She reminded him of someone , or rather he felt he had met her before . |
| 17 | She reminds him of something out of Chardin or Frère , or is it Jan Steen ? |
| 18 | ‘ May I still have the interview with you which you promised ? ’ she asked straight out — and thought for a few seconds , as he looked sternly at her , that she had blown it , and that he had taken the strongest exception to her reminding him of his promise . |
| 19 | They reminded him of what the city was really about , more so than the near deserted streets below , dominated by monuments and government buildings that themselves became monuments after dark . |
| 20 | They reminded him of his puzzles . |
| 21 | He reminded him of his brother Joseph , who had emigrated to Canada . |
| 22 | When he did feel able to write to Coenwulf he reminded him of his humble origins ( but avoided reference to his matrimonial difficulties ) and exhorted him to remember always the very best features of Offa 's reign , avoiding Offa 's displays of greed and cruelty . |
| 23 | It reminded him of himself . |
| 24 | But it reminded him of what he wanted to say . |
| 25 | He liked that contempt , that resentment ; the first time he saw it in the boy 's face he knew it reminded him of something , but it was weeks before it came to him what it was . |
| 26 | Graham frowned as he passed it , partly at its loud white-lettered tyres and obtrusive styling , but partly because it reminded him of something ; something to do with Slater , with Sara even . |
| 27 | It reminded him of something — a picture , a picture in a story book . |
| 28 | Masklin quite enjoyed it ; it reminded him of his days as an Outsider , before they found the Store . |
| 29 | It reminded him of his own inadequacy ; it made Arabella 's betrayal all the worse ; it had given Newley the courage to think of divorcing Georgina . |
| 30 | It reminded him of his boyhood reading . |