Example sentences of "and it remind me [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The descent was nerve-racking and it reminded me of the slow , queasy way light planes come in to land in Himalayan valleys .
2 A few days ago , when it had been snowing , I saw a group of Savoy cabbages standing frozen and benumbed , and it reminded me of a group of women in their thin petticoats and old shawls which I had seen standing in a little hot-water-and-coal shop early in the morning . ’
3 It was projected by a thin young student at a concert where I was trying to do my performance , and it reminded me of my intentional projection of wrong words at the English Teacher when I was at school .
4 I read about it in a book and it reminded me of her .
5 I was reading an article ( Echoes , March 3 ) by David Isaacs about an old soldier 's experience in Singapore and it reminded me of a conversation with a friend in Carlisle .
6 Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat
7 When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago .
8 The jukebox is playing ‘ Ricky Do n't Lose that Number ’ , and it reminds me of carpools in the seventh grade .
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