Example sentences of "to remind [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Unfortunately when we went into the shop to buy his gift we met a couple of his ex-girlfriends who insisted on coming along to remind him of the girls he is leaving behind , and to present him with a small , but wonderfully-packaged gift , a token of our friendship . |
| 32 | He had already learned his lesson by painful experience ; the burn-like swelling on his left calf still throbbed occasionally to remind him of the morning a week ago when he had drawn on his trousers carelessly , to discover that a scorpion had spent the night nestling in one of the legs . |
| 33 | 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. |
| 34 | She leaned forward to address Simmons intending to remind him of the reason for her visit to the college , but he began to speak . |
| 35 | Moreover , since Michael Heseltine 's departure , there is no one in Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet to remind her of the nature of Entrepreneurial Man . |
| 36 | She did n't need Maggie to remind her of the odds against a baby 's survival in the alleys , and she loved this one enough to make the ultimate sacrifice . |
| 37 | Betty thanked her for the bucket and smiled at her , and Lydia , who , if Betty went on like this , might turn out to be quite human , decided that she would take her her breakfast in bed in the morning : thin crispy toast with a scraping of butter and golden clear jasmine tea , and an egg-cupful of harebells to remind her of the sky . |
| 38 | Enough to remind her of the consequences of submitting so easily to a man who despised her . |
| 39 | However , it is always wise to remind yourself of the job description details before an interview and also to be thoroughly conversant with the details of your own application form and c.v . |
| 40 | Wales , meaning the suffering Welsh public , desperately needed the comfort of Saturday 's epic encounter before a Stradey Park gathering fit for the occasion to remind themselves of the level of attainment of which their game is still capable . |
| 41 | The Brazilians want to remind themselves of the British style before they meet Scotland in Italy . |
| 42 | But again , she 's making good eye contact , both of them only let their eyes flick down to their notes to remind themselves of the next point they want to make . |
| 43 | It was good to see and touch the Inca stones again ; to remind myself of the depth this city had : the dignity beyond the constant assault of the hustlers . |
| 44 | Now , suddenly I had to remind myself of the truth . |
| 45 | So that morning I went to the College library and began trying to remind myself of the intricacies of French verbs . |
| 46 | Sir : Jonathan Glancey ( Architecture ; ‘ Invisible buildings that reflect nothing ’ , 4 October ) does well to remind us of the spreading disease of the mirrored glass building . |
| 47 | Neither does the statement , ‘ All those coloured glass pictures of people which you see in the windows of churches , have been put there to remind us of the good which those people did during their lives . |
| 48 | I wonder if in ten years ' time Mr. Duggan will be looking back at videos of ‘ England 's glory years ’ and then be writing to RW&P to remind us of the lock forward who elbowed his opposite number from behind , perforating his eardrum , or the flankers who really do n't seem to mind where their feet or hands come into contact with their opponents . |
| 49 | A recent pronouncement by a former Education Minister serves to remind us of the kind of thinking we must guard against . |
| 50 | 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 ) . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | The word serves to remind us of the importance of that element so far not introduced into the discussion : diplomacy . |
| 53 | But stoat , butterflies , wood lark , redstart , wheat ear , lap wing and stone curlews — to remind us of the days when the great bustard roamed the wild sandy spaces of Break in droves . |
| 54 | Yet even within such an order there are enough complexities of signals , of a different kind — the ‘ command performance ’ , in honour of the already honoured ; the ‘ private view ’ — who has been invited to look in this privileged way ? ; the ‘ special performance ’ , for an audience of a socially selected type — to remind us of the always variable — historically and culturally variable-social organization and social function of art . |
| 55 | The paradigm example to remind us of the conventionality of the relationship between meanings and perceptions is the case of expressions for colour , and this holds good even if we are willing to accept a case for the universality of certain focal points of colour perception . ) |
| 56 | His ironic protestations — " " My wit is short ; ye may well understonde " " ; " " Blameth nat me … " " — serve only to remind us of the fact that here we have a court poet playing first the pilgrim-narrator " Chaucer " and then playing a churl . |
| 57 | 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 ) . |