Example sentences of "remind him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually slumps back into his seat , his smarting face and aching eyes reminding him of the misled thought journey that took him back round to before where he started . |
| 2 | I remind him of the disproportionate harm that the MacSharry proposals would cause and seek his assurance that he will bear in mind the Scottish farmers and all those elsewhere in Britain when he represents the interests of the British Government and the British farmer in Europe . |
| 3 | She reminded him of a young colt : there were moments when her legs seemed much too long and her posture quite unladylike — and others when , caught unawares in a reverie , she had all the poise of a marquesa . |
| 4 | They reminded him of a Distant Early Warning System . |
| 5 | It reminded him of a veined glass marble he had once owned as a boy . |
| 6 | The concavity beneath the hip-bone reminded him of a little valley high in the hills of Tuscany or Sicily , bare , smooth and satisfying . |
| 7 | For no reason he could think of the rooms reminded him of a deserted stage set when the play has ended its run and the actors have gone . |
| 8 | They reminded him of the ignominious episode of the oath-taking , and pointed out that Rodrigo now had a personal ‘ army ’ almost as large as the King 's . |
| 9 | He said that looking out from the platform towards the town reminded him of the late President Kennedy looking out over the Berlin Wall . |
| 10 | But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day . |
| 11 | Despite the much vaunted heating and ventilating system of the new police headquarters the windows of Wycliffe 's office were almost obscured by condensation and the air had a clammy warmth which reminded him of the tropical house at Kew . |
| 12 | A working ormolu and bronze lion mantel clock — Louis Quinze , he could almost hear his wife Carole exclaiming — reminded him of the relentless passage of time . |
| 13 | A 19-year-old brunette who worked in ‘ Back and Sides ’ , an Arden hairdresser 's , she reminded him of the young Alma Cogan . |
| 14 | The whole interview reminded him of the English card game in which you not only had to guess what cards your opponent held , but decide what he thought yours were , and so on . |
| 15 | It reminded him of the big shots in the trade union movement having sandwiches at Number 10 all those years ago . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ We run the business , ’ Carrie reminded him with a severe look . |
| 18 | ‘ Kirsty 's my sister , ’ she reminded him in a sharp tone . |
| 19 | For a moment Seb had forgotten his sprained ankle but it reminded him in no uncertain fashion when he tried to put his full weight on it . |
| 20 | A dissident intellectual passing out leaflets at a factory gate reminds him of a nervous child offering a sugar lump to a large horse . |
| 21 | On this great day , when he cut the ribbon on a shop built to remind him of the Italian department stores of his childhood — ‘ they always had a restaurant , because part of the treat of shopping was lunching out ’ — he was so happy and relaxed that it was easy to swallow inhibitions and ask him whether he was n't bothered about being known , through the films he has chosen to dress , as the creator of designer violence . |
| 22 | 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. |
| 23 | It would be to let one maxim remind him of the treacherous limits of his information and the other of unconsidered consequences of delay , and try to fill both gaps in his awareness before letting himself be moved in one direction or the other . |
| 24 | I could tell him when his crown 's starting to fall off and remind him of the royal plural — and , well , lots of things ! |