In the back, a glassed-in control booth, and at the front, three much larger stations, one of which was instantly familiar.

He sat on the bed and combed a hand through his hair, a gesture I found instantly familiar.

The general outlines of the being she was perceiving were instantly familiar to her.

The commercial's banjo melody is instantly familiar, but the words are different.

The picture on the dust jacket of the book was instantly familiar.

The voice, which he had not heard for three years, the calm, soft voice, was instantly familiar to him.

The words and tone were instantly familiar to her.

The smell was instantly familiar, the dead air, the filthy carpet on the stairs.

To visitors here, the scene from 1914 looks instantly familiar.

No, someone else; a flash of a face that was instantly familiar.