Example sentences of "remind [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do we need to be reminded about the eradication of time all the time ? |
| 2 | But , throughout it all , it is hard not to be reminded of the debt owed , yet again , to Carole King . |
| 3 | / As with Conrad , we are continually reminded of the power and terror of Nature , and the isolation and feebleness of Man . |
| 4 | I am reminded of the time when we were leaving Italy after a while in the Dolomites and spent all our Italian cash in the last café making a phone call , only to find that the café owner was adding a surcharge to the bill . |
| 5 | He is reminded of the Company emblem , Felix the cat , the helmeted feline with nine lives , and once again thinks how highly appropriate it is . |
| 6 | Charles was reminded of the wars of the Spanish Succession when the mellow red brick of Flemish farm houses exactly like this one , housed the dandified officers , all feathers and lace , of the Spanish Imperial Army . |
| 7 | If so , then we are reminded of the violent earth before the Flood . |
| 8 | Thus this demanding people are reminded of the demands made of them , and given more than a hint of how terrible the consequences will be , if those demands are not met . |
| 9 | I 'm reminded of the story about the time when a British Rail advertising contract was up for grabs . |
| 10 | I was reminded of the black iron horse silhouettes which decorate the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury railway line in England . |
| 11 | I was reminded of the priest 's tale of the Mountbatten murder . |
| 12 | Ferdinando came to his wife in such an open way that she was reminded of the first advances he had ever made and she was stirred in a way she believed no longer possible . |
| 13 | I was reminded of the Brecht poem in which the politicians decide that they can not trust the people and that they had better elect a new one . |
| 14 | WATCHING the collapse of the opinion polls ' projections of a hung Parliament early last Friday morning , I was reminded of the 1970 General Election . |
| 15 | He needed to be reminded of the way the world was arranged . |
| 16 | As North 's tawdry tale unfolded one was reminded of the 1962 novel Seven Days in May — which tells how a group of disaffected American generals plan to overthrow what they see as a weak and ineffective president by a military coup . |
| 17 | He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast . |
| 18 | Hunched over or not , it was impossible not to be reminded of the sheer impact of his physical presence — the very same that had once reduced two drunken gentlemen to sobriety in the back of a car . |
| 19 | I am reminded of the ant who asked the centipede in what order he put his feet to the ground . |
| 20 | We are constantly reminded of the appalling condition of our houses . |
| 21 | In concentrating on these issues , we are reminded of the comments made by a distinguished Scottish judge in 1954 . |
| 22 | Like many others , I am saddened almost to the point of despair at the result of this general election , and am vividly reminded of the moving words once spoken by that truly good man , Michael Foot . |
| 23 | We are reminded of the controversy caused by Lord Kelvin 's incorrect estimate of Earth 's age based on models of cooling without radioactive heating . |
| 24 | I am , in some strange way reminded of the enigma of mortality and immortality , of birth , life , growth and ultimately death . |
| 25 | As a last example of the potential role of operations research in GIS and disaster management we are reminded of the logistic problems that faced the Peel Regional Police Force during the Mississauga evacuation mentioned previously ( Scanlon and Padgham 1980 ) . |
| 26 | Throughout the book , the reader will be continually reminded of the famous words from Casablanca : ‘ round up the usual suspects . ’ |
| 27 | Entrants are also reminded of the great potential in the colours and forms of the zoo 's plants and landscaping . |
| 28 | They may be helped by being reminded of the long-term benefits of such observation . |
| 29 | Luckey , an expert on East African folklore , was reminded of the Masai proverb , ‘ Human life is short , but a ruby lasts for thousands of generations . ’ |
| 30 | The literal translation of onyxectomy , however , is simply ‘ nail-cutting-out ’ and that is what vets are doing , even though they may not like to be reminded of the fact when they record their day 's work . |