Example sentences of "remind him [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A single moment when she 'd reminded him of his sister meant nothing … |
| 2 | I may have reminded him of his wife or daughter . |
| 3 | I said to Schur , after reminding him of his promise , ‘ Tell Anna . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ May I still have the interview with you which you promised ? ’ she asked straight out — and thought for a few seconds , as he looked sternly at her , that she had blown it , and that he had taken the strongest exception to her reminding him of his promise . |
| 5 | The room inside was startlingly bare , reminding him of his mother 's flat in Venice . |
| 6 | He dismissed Mr. Brand with immediate effect , reminding him of his right to appeal in writing within seven days . |
| 7 | ‘ But you have someone to meet , ’ she said , reminding him of his duty . |
| 8 | She had said those words to him many times , reminding him of his indoctrination at the hands of Por Tanssie 's officials . |
| 9 | Stark 's confidence appears to have been at a low ebb but the Scotland manager , Duncan Paterson , has been reminding him of his form earlier in the season : at the Dubai Sevens , which the Scots won ; in the A international against Italy in Melrose when the Boroughmuir winger had a hand in both tries ; and in his senior international debut against Ireland at Murrayfield , when he scored one try and was heavily involved in the other from Tony Stanger . |
| 10 | The indicators were beginning to flicker hesitantly , reminding him of his foolishness . |
| 11 | It reminded him of his boyhood reading . |
| 12 | At 11.30 a.m. his fellow director summoned him , and reminded him of his resignation . |
| 13 | He reminded him of his brother Joseph , who had emigrated to Canada . |
| 14 | Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers . |
| 15 | Now she reminded him of his mother ! |
| 16 | ‘ Michel said I reminded him of his audience at the time when he made speeches . |
| 17 | Ronald Reagan 's Oxford visit reminded him of his college days . |
| 18 | In Small World the middle-aged English academic Philip Swallow has a wife called Hilary and has a passionate affair with a younger woman called Joy , who reminds him of his wife when she was younger and prettier — when he first meets her , Joy is even wearing a dressing gown like one Hilary used to wear . |
| 19 | In the sky shines the star which reminds him of his childhood . |
| 20 | When he discovers that Mary helps people , collects for Biafra and has protested against the Vietnam War , he is not happy because she suddenly reminds him of his mother . |
| 21 | ‘ Your brother seems to have kept nothing to remind him of his wife . ’ |
| 22 | From an early age , Sara had sensed that she irritated him , by her presence , by the fact that she was there to remind him of his wife 's earlier marriage . |
| 23 | Before long the sweater was finished and the various parts stitched together with her usual professional finish , ready to post off to Penry next day to make certain he had a keepsake to remind him of his castaway . |
| 24 | Some of its humour happened to remind him of his friend Mike Nichols , who had just begun making a career directing plays on Broadway with the hit Neil Simon comedy Barefoot in the Park and Murray Schisgal 's Luv . |
| 25 | Thankfully , he found St Erconwald 's fairly deserted except for Watkin to whom he gave strict instructions about the custody of the church , and Ranulf the rat-catcher who had come to remind him of his promise that if a Guild of Rat-Catchers were founded , St Erconwald 's could be their chantry church . |
| 26 | If he hangs badly towards home or the other horses , he may need a kick or a smart smack with the whip to remind him of his job . |
| 27 | Spurred by a fleeting but unmistakable echo of Thetis 's music , interpolated in its original key as if to remind him of his mother 's counsel , and by the groaning shades of his dead countrymen , he sets forth to exact vengeance for the Trojan victory ( ex.10 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Alas that a child of barely eleven summers must stand at the king 's elbow to remind him of his duty ! ’ lamented Elizabeth Woodville . |
| 29 | It had none of the clinical efficiency of his mother 's , but it did remind him of his grandmother 's kitchen out on the farm , with its prosaic line of battered saucepans which shared a shelf with a large bowl for making bread and a hopeful looking collection of cake tins . |