Example sentences of "[be] [that] [pers pn] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only problem is that they taught me to swear like a trooper . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The truth is that she envies me , ’ she went on more calmly . |
| 3 | " I always obey my father without question as I did today , and all I ask is that you help me to continue to do that . " |
| 4 | And not the least wonderful thing is that you let me follow my star , and encourage me and help me ; so many women would n't . |
| 5 | ‘ What I require , Rasputin , is that you let me out of here and let me see Elaine . ’ |
| 6 | I 'll give you my home telephone number , and if you do n't find them until after I 've returned , and you 're not successful in persuading Suzie to go back to England , all I ask is that you let me know where I can contact her . |
| 7 | What is the issue is that you expected me to stay and I did n't . |
| 8 | I bought one for Tim , it taste quite nice , the lady at the checkout said it would , is that you kicking me or the |
| 9 | Cara had made it sound so easy when she 'd said ‘ All I 'm asking is that you bring me back relevant facts and answers ’ . |
| 10 | And then after a brief explanation , ‘ The only reason I write to you is that you warned me this would happen . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The nicest thing is that you consider me intelligent . |
| 12 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 13 | In a moment I will produce the recipe — and please , will readers do their best to suspend disbelief until they have tried it ? — but one of the main points about this recipe is that it taught me ( for after all , one does not buy lobsters all that often ) that anisette is , improbably but incontrovertibly , a quite magical ingredient in fish dishes and sauces . |
| 14 | The huge advantage of fame is that it gives me , for no proper reason , access to people that I would never otherwise have . |
| 15 | The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent . |
| 16 | ‘ All I know is that it cost me a lot of money to learn . ’ |
| 17 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 18 | I 'm ready to believe yowl admit of their recommendations all I presume to say of him is that he writes me he shall be really dilligent and the enclosed specimens he has grown which I hope yowl puruse make it look as if he would prove so . |
| 19 | The upshot of it all was that they wanted me to ask Derek would he come in for a sperm count . |
| 20 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 21 | erm no what happened was that he gave me some bones that were far too big for the dogs . |
| 22 | I do n't know whether it was that he wanted me to see my ‘ virtue ’ triumph over his ‘ vice ’ , or something subtler , that sometimes losing is winning . |
| 23 | For Friend I would — if I only knew what it was that he wants me to do or be . |
| 24 | The way I viewed training was that it got me out of the house . |
| 25 | ‘ One good thing to come out of it was that it inspired me to play guitar and turned me into the person I am . ’ |
| 26 | Another greatly pleasurable result of the broadcast was that it put me in touch with colleagues of his , and their wives , in the lighthouse business , several of whom wrote me the kindest letters expressing the most heart-warming comments . |