Example sentences of "[prep] if to remind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the inevitable power lines the church looked rural , too : a simple wooden structure with a sharp , narrow steeple prodding at the sky as if to remind God that it was there , its bell clanking as an additional reminder and as a summons to the faithful . |
| 2 | And then , just when people were looking genuinely shocked by what she 'd said — remember that this man , who we all knew , was still sitting there with the blood just washed off his face , as if to remind us that she was n't joking — then she said , do n't be scared Boys . |
| 3 | He rather hoped his wife would wake and catch him like this , unshaven , hair greasy and uncombed , and as he stood beside the bed he farted quite loudly , as if to remind her that she deserved someone as awful as him . |
| 4 | as if to remind him of the past , Controller Macdonald had a large video print of that moment on one wall of his office , which was in the basement . |
| 5 | Two doors shut the glass away when it was not in use , as if to remind me that too much self-admiration was unacceptable . |
| 6 | Overhead , a great circle of dark azure swirls round a gleaming crescent moon and into it , majestically , in the last light , sails Yr Wyddfa , as if to remind us that her magic lives . |
| 7 | But Gran accepted it , patting her hand and then looking round at the clock as if to remind herself life had to go on . |
| 8 | As she passed the buffet car her stomach rumbled , as if to remind her she had n't eaten since lunchtime . |
| 9 | She smiled frozenly as if to remind Nicole that she was a guest in her house . |
| 10 | And he had called her by her full Greek name too , as if to remind her that he knew it . |
| 11 | At the Hamiltons ’ , that is , ’ he added , as if to remind her how temporary her home with Faye and Bill was . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |