Example sentences of "it remind [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They chose this area because it reminded them of the Alps and afforded them the chance to continue with their much loved skiing . |
| 2 | It reminded him of the big shots in the trade union movement having sandwiches at Number 10 all those years ago . |
| 3 | It reminded him of the zombies he had seen in the horror film at the Empire . |
| 4 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 5 | It reminded him of the vigorousness of Army life . |
| 6 | The descent was nerve-racking and it reminded me of the slow , queasy way light planes come in to land in Himalayan valleys . |
| 7 | ‘ What really attracted me to this hat was its shape — it reminded me of the ones American tourists wear . ’ |
| 8 | It reminded me of the comparison the Stud Brothers made between you and |
| 9 | It reminded me of the London tubes during an air raid . |
| 10 | ‘ When I first saw it in the distance , dominating the surrounding countryside , looking so magnificent , it reminded me of the Acropolis . ’ |
| 11 | This is because it reminded me of the type of frame one might put around a tapestry or sampler , and I feel this symmetrical design is somewhat reminiscent of sampler work and needlework in general . |
| 12 | It reminded me of the ghost in the horror film I had heard some of the older children talking about . |
| 13 | It reminded me of the voice that had started all this , the night my dad died . |
| 14 | In her view the film had been ‘ quite careful ’ to show that it was an allegory and it reminded her of the British classic film Black Narcissus . |
| 15 | It reminded her of the river bank where Pa and the boys went to cut rushes at weekends so that Ma and Billy could work all week . |
| 16 | It reminded her of the disastrous pole-vault on the school sports-day , when Enid had cast a spell on Mildred 's pole to help her , but had inadvertently overdone the magic and Mildred had sailed through Miss Hardbroom 's study window . |
| 17 | It reminded her of the trunking at the back of a starship 's central processor banks ; and of the tubing inside a tissue regrowth cabinet . |
| 18 | It reminded her of the feeling she had had in the room below this one , stood there amongst the shrouded furniture ; that the house was not abandoned , merely boarded up temporarily , awaiting its occupant 's return . |
| 19 | It reminded her of the type of man he was . |
| 20 | It reminded her of the old days when just a passing glance of his could reduce her to a state of burning confusion . |
| 21 | It reminded her of the first time she 'd seen him . |
| 22 | It reminded her of the time she had slept here , and woken to find him beside her with his arm around her in his beautifully furnished bedroom . |
| 23 | It 's too thin , it 's too sharp , it 's better than it looks on the telly , it reminds them of the wife , it gets right up their nose , etc. etc . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | It 's a favourite because it reminds me of the most exciting part of political campaigning : the roadshow . |
| 27 | It reminds me of the time I went to a school in Clevedon to interview one of the masters , David Bryant , who was the greatest bowls player in the world and a star in his own right . |
| 28 | The matches are made of a wood so flimsy that it reminds me of the balsa with which I tried , unsuccessfully , to build model aeroplanes . |
| 29 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 30 | It reminds me of the words of Robbie Burns , oh would the Gods the gift to gi us , to see ourselves as others see us . |