Example sentences of "it reminded [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reminded its supporters of America 's own struggle in the War of Independence , and this sentimental analogy was drawn again and again . |
| 2 | It reminded them of when Labour Chancellor Denis Healey turned back at the airport in 1976 over a sterling crisis . |
| 3 | They chose this area because it reminded them of the Alps and afforded them the chance to continue with their much loved skiing . |
| 4 | On the lighter side it reminded him of Stamford and he wondered how Burden had got on . |
| 5 | It reminded him of shop stewards with their sleeves rolled up in those endless conferences when it was said that the country was being held to ransom . |
| 6 | It reminded him of the big shots in the trade union movement having sandwiches at Number 10 all those years ago . |
| 7 | A Brazilian said it reminded him of London during the Falklands war . |
| 8 | It reminded him of dogs with wet coats , or very old people , or mouse droppings . |
| 9 | It reminded him of pirates and buccaneers and fearless men who roamed the high seas in search of adventure . |
| 10 | It reminded him of the zombies he had seen in the horror film at the Empire . |
| 11 | It reminded him of another mad suggestion from a man in California , offering the contras $50m if they would go and take over Malta . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It reminded him too much of Lefevre . |
| 14 | It reminded him of a veined glass marble he had once owned as a boy . |
| 15 | He could n't place it , but it reminded him strongly of something . |
| 16 | He liked that contempt , that resentment ; the first time he saw it in the boy 's face he knew it reminded him of something , but it was weeks before it came to him what it was . |
| 17 | Masklin quite enjoyed it ; it reminded him of his days as an Outsider , before they found the Store . |
| 18 | It reminded him of the vigorousness of Army life . |
| 19 | Strange because it reminded him of other bedroom partings : sheets tangled , sweat cooling , confusion and self-reproach keeping glances at bay . |
| 20 | He knew , now , what it reminded him of . |
| 21 | It reminded him of himself . |
| 22 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 23 | It reminded him of that moment years before when she had drawn and aimed the bow . |
| 24 | It reminded him of his own inadequacy ; it made Arabella 's betrayal all the worse ; it had given Newley the courage to think of divorcing Georgina . |
| 25 | But it reminded him of what he wanted to say . |
| 26 | It reminded him of Sandhurst , except that the instructors there had always bellowed their orders and called their charges by various unsanitary epithets . |
| 27 | Willis was much more cheerful and said it reminded him of a boarding house in the old days . " |
| 28 | Graham frowned as he passed it , partly at its loud white-lettered tyres and obtrusive styling , but partly because it reminded him of something ; something to do with Slater , with Sara even . |
| 29 | It reminded him of his boyhood reading . |
| 30 | Ken said — he came for Sunday lunch now , often with his stepdaughter but without his wife , who felt awkward in Ellen 's presence — that it reminded him of a kitten he 'd given Wendy on the day she gave birth to Apricot . |