Example sentences of "reminds me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , Andrew 's tone reminds me at times of Marc Bolan , particularly when he 's playing the percussive , rhythmic section across bars 4 and 5 . |
| 2 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 3 | It 's also a colour of cold — and we have n't had much of a summer this year — but at the same time it reminds me of the warmth and tranquillity of a Claude Lorrain . |
| 4 | It reminds me of eating wild boar in Tuscany where fennel seed is traditionally added to give an edge to the flavour . |
| 5 | There is a paternalistic assumption lurking here , which reminds me of that which led to the disastrous council housing estates of the Sixties and early Seventies . |
| 6 | Even when Samuel is facing death by having his throat cut in the Gents the exchange goes like this , ‘ Mother of Mary , that reminds me of my poor Joseph going . |
| 7 | She reminds me of someone I seen — someone I knew really well . |
| 8 | I 'm glad she forgot her hairbrush — it really reminds me of her . |
| 9 | Looking at that picture reminds me of the photos of me and Marie — you know , them we took in that photo booth . |
| 10 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 11 | This reminds me of two things . |
| 12 | All this reminds me of the ideas of Michel Foucault . |
| 13 | There is something about a fire that reminds me of holiness and truth . |
| 14 | Reminds me of a piece of graffiti outside Saint Martin-in the-Fields . |
| 15 | She reminds me of a small animal at bay . |
| 16 | ‘ A fire always reminds me of my brother Charlie . |
| 17 | It 's a favourite because it reminds me of the most exciting part of political campaigning : the roadshow . |
| 18 | Ah , how touching ! thought Anna : it reminds me of Dmitri , when I was on a field trip in the Urals , that summer — oh , was it ‘ 66 or ‘ 67 ? |
| 19 | And — funny — my tender breast of chicken filled with garlic butter and herbs sauteed in sunflower oil with savoury rice and side salad reminds me of the chicken Kiev we occasionally buy in the supermarket . |
| 20 | It reminds me of days in the Wolf Cubs when we sat around Akela and heard about Mowgli . |
| 21 | Reminds me of somebody . ’ |
| 22 | It reminds me of when , as a young man just flown from the comfort and security of the parental nest , I rented a small flat . |
| 23 | My first example would sound like this : ‘ The trade balance is One BILL ION Pounds in the red … ’ — pronounced ‘ bill -yun ’ with a strange rising cadence that reminds me of nothing more than Leslie Crowther : ‘ A bill -yun pounds — come on down ! ! ! ’ |
| 24 | The landscape reminds me of the west coast of Ireland , of Inishere , the smallest of the Aran Islands on which I once spent a few days — the same tradition of building walls to clear land as much as to protect . |
| 25 | Although bathed in a sentimentality of its own , the concept appeals to me because it reminds me of a trip I made as a student to the Maison Savoye in the summer of 1957 , when this great Corbusier villa was a ruin surrounded by waist-high grass and nettles . |
| 26 | This talk of laughing all the way to the bank reminds me of a delightful line from Shakespeare : |
| 27 | We left Northumberland in 1975 , to move north to Caithness , taking with us many happy memories of our time in the beautiful valley of the South Tyne ; but I also took something more tangible , which reminds me of Northumberland every time I use it : my present trout-rod . |
| 28 | ‘ Reminds me of a horse I knew once , ’ the farmer said , ‘ long time ago . |
| 29 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
| 30 | The thought of caged chicken reminds me of the occasion — I was about seven at the time — when my father lost his rather large , pompous cockbird who dominated his twelve wives . |