Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] of [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It strips us of all the illusions and idolatry of the world , to face our basic personal need . |
2 | At the same time , of course , it assures them of comprehensible input . |
3 | When Molly joined him he would ask hopefully if she were feeling tired or , even perhaps more hopefully , as though it relieved him of all responsibility , if she had the curse . |
4 | Strange because it reminded him of other bedroom partings : sheets tangled , sweat cooling , confusion and self-reproach keeping glances at bay . |
5 | It reminded him of that moment years before when she had drawn and aimed the bow . |
6 | It reminded him of another mad suggestion from a man in California , offering the contras $50m if they would go and take over Malta . |
7 | It reminded me of all I disliked so much in the United States , of being called Ray before even shaking hands . |
8 | It reminded me of that episode in Rudyard Kipling 's Kim where the boy is confronted with a shattered pot and comes under pressure to reconstruct it in his mind as it once was . |
9 | It reminded me of one of those Nazi places , honestly . |
10 | it reminded me of one of those plastic haircuts you used to get as a kid for the legoland men . |
11 | It reminded me of those rooms they put guests in in horror movies — the sort where you know something horrible 's going to happen in the middle of the night . |
12 | The frame around them is extremely heavy , but I chose it because it reminded me of some of the heavier framed Victorian pictures that have a botanical feel . |
13 | Oddly , instead of reminding me of Bill , it reminded me of Old Red . |
14 | It reminded me of old Mr Grace in Are You Being Served ? |
15 | Above left The wallpaper frieze in the sitting room came from America and was fearfully expensive , but Angela could n't resist it because it reminded her of two pictures in her bedroom , of fruit and flowers painted on black velvet . |
16 | It reminded her of that other occasion when she had driven Freddie Nash and she wondered whether they were destined to find themselves together battling against the elements . |
17 | She enjoyed his obvious fascination with it and it reminded her of another suggestion she wanted to make to him . |
18 | And when the old chap approached Shirley outside London nightspot Tramp — of course — it reminded her of another line from that old song of hers : ‘ Hey big spender , spend a little time with me . ’ |
19 | It reminded her of another time . |
20 | It reminds me of that make-the-best-of-it jollity in a jumble-sale hall . |
21 | It reminds me of provincial France , where you can drive through a village on a summer 's afternoon and wonder if the place is inhabited . |
22 | You know seeing this lovely glowing pink , it reminds me of two thoughts , I wish I 'd bought that instead of my pale brown chintz . |
23 | Yeah that 's considering it 's January it reminds me of this global warming that 's taking place down on everywhere |
24 | It reminds me of those handsome bottles of fruit at Fauchon , their shape and colour not only preserved but given lustre by the amber syrup they bathe in . |
25 | It reminds me of those half-houses which according to normal criteria of map reading should n't exist . |
26 | what , have a because we 're going to another chap had said are you sure I 've ordered this milk and it was this young man who 's serving you see , and so , the , the more senior librarian she says she said it reminds me of interesting reading , was about erm , it was a very sort , it was , it was an but it was about architecture of , of Italy , you see , it was quite a detailed thing , you know really good detail |
27 | Because it reminds you of all you 've lost ? |
28 | ( But of course , if they 're wrong it deprives them of one or more credit options which might have actually suited them well . ) |
29 | There is a suggestion too that poor readers are deficient in an internal articulatory code ( Briggs and Underwood , 1987 ) , and that this is in itself a source of difficulty insofar as it deprives them of one lexical route — that is , one way of identifying what words mean . |
30 | Even when he saw it being done he still would n't have known what was going on but unless you try it yourself , you do n't know what physical effect , or mental effect , it has on you and how speedy and intolerant it makes you of other people . |