Example sentences of "[adj] remind me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some reminded me of Wei Jingsheng , in his fifth year of solitary confinement for daring to speak out and discuss the ‘ fifth modernisation ’ . |
| 2 | This reminds me of two things . |
| 3 | All this reminds me of the ideas of Michel Foucault . |
| 4 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 5 | The movement of this reminds me of er stage set and the figures on the bench could almost be actors and actresses and with the figure at the bottom here , the male at the bottom , well its not quite at bottom , tucked away at the side there , he , he , he looks like erm , like a harlequin figure , maybe a mischief maker , er I , I felt there was a lot of fun in this painting and a lot of erm , er gravado and , and stage specs , that kind of thing , so this poem is called for obvious reasons People Of The Nile , and I 'll read it twice , probably be the best way Ancient people drawn on a vase , tell a tale , warn a friend , man dressed in red holds back a curtain , over hears and tells , they are gossiping people , playing Chinese whispers , so I , I , I quite wanted to give that er a , a contemporary updated feel , erm , I read that again for the people who may of just seen the picture at the back People Of The Nile , Ancient people drawn on a vase , tell a tale , warn a friend , man dressed in red holds back a curtain , over hears and tells , they are gossiping people , playing chinese whispers , erm , the next one , we 'll have to put you on wheels I think |
| 6 | Pa talking like this reminds me of the witch in the Snow White video : ‘ Cymbeline 's bought you strawberries and ice cream m for tea , ’ it says . |
| 7 | How this reminds me of old times , ’ she sighed , looking round at the hall with its decorated stalls and paper chains and lanterns hanging from the rafters . |
| 8 | At last , their order given , he took a sip of his very dry sherry and said , ‘ This reminds me of that evening we spent together in Bruges — except that your hair was done differently then , and you wore a deep-pink dress . ’ |
| 9 | This reminds me |
| 10 | This reminds me of when we went round Versailles . |
| 11 | This reminds me of bringing i , coming up to Debbie 's . |
| 12 | This reminded me of our own village , where in the summer holidays the regular players on the bowling-green , mostly older citizens , are teaching the children to play . |
| 13 | I know that we 're all in a state of shock and wondering where to place ourselves on the spectrum between quietism at one end and terrorism on the other , but , as a response to an altered environment , this reminded me appallingly of the turtles who , so the legend goes , were hatched on a Pacific atoll where a nuclear blast had been carried out . |
| 14 | This reminded me of the story of how Dame Janet allegedly tried to relocate the ducks which meet and mate annually on the landscaped patch in front of the Commons and atop its underground carpark . |
| 15 | This reminded me strongly of Wittgenstein 's story of ‘ the diviner who tells us that when he holds the rod he feels that the water is five feet under the ground ’ , and who , when we express our doubts , says , ‘ You can estimate a length when you see it . |
| 16 | He was still sufficiently sane to remind me that Orvieto was perched on the top of a craggy escarpment . |
| 17 | I 'll keep this to remind me of you . ’ |
| 18 | As you saw fit to remind me before , you do have work to do , the same as I have . |
| 19 | Richard was supposed to remind me . |
| 20 | Mention of sport for all reminds me of the tremendous debt owed for the volunteers of our sport . |
| 21 | They all reminded me of him . |
| 22 | It all reminded me of what I received when I dared to make some mild criticism of the habits of cyclists and for much the same reason . |
| 23 | It all reminded me of the warmth and life at home and it was easy . |
| 24 | It was just that people saying things like that reminded me of one of my all-time favourite cartoons where Dr Watson is saying to Sherlock Holmes : ‘ But if you saw the conditions these Moriartys had to live in , you would n't be so quick to judge . ’ |
| 25 | That reminded me of Versailles . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She tumed to Richard , ‘ Oh , that reminds me , ’ she said . |
| 28 | That reminds me — where 's Otley got to ? |
| 29 | ‘ That reminds me , I must n't forget the black pudding for tonight , ’ Bedelia said as yet another shiny black behind came up on the screen . |
| 30 | That reminds me : I asked whether he 'd heard anything within a few minutes of seeing young Hamnett , hoping he 'd say a shot , of course , which really would have been too good to be true . |