Example sentences of "[vb past] remind [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a little nagging voice at the back of her mind kept reminding her of the way he had blown up the taxi rank after Anthony died . |
| 2 | She kept reminding herself of the stories about him in the gossip columns , of his reputation as a womaniser . |
| 3 | The veiled women had reminded me of the nuns . |
| 4 | He said his mother , Eva , who is Irish , had reminded him of the Klan 's history of persecuting Catholics . |
| 5 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 6 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 7 | Scarlet was relieved , since Camille 's adolescent smile had reminded her of the expression on the face of some ancient , alien reptile . |
| 8 | He was some stray who had reminded her of the Scarabae agent . |
| 9 | See why I had to remind her about the driving license ? |
| 10 | Now , suddenly I had to remind myself of the truth . |