Example sentences of "that [vb past] [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was trying to love myself , the starting point of it all , that seemed to lead me in so many strange directions . |
| 2 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |
| 3 | It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening . |
| 4 | The one sentence that had pleased me in her unfastidious and not very delicate letter was the last of all — that simple ‘ Write care of Ann . ’ |
| 5 | That afternoon , various incidents that had puzzled me at the time , became clear to me . |
| 6 | The melancholy that had struck me at first was very much a part of his character . |
| 7 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |
| 8 | From the other end of the telephone , on another continent , in another world where people slept soundly in their beds and knew nothing of battle , the familiar voice that had ordered me into so many hells was sending me back , this time to the lowest rung . |
| 9 | My behaviour was surely prompted by flaws in my character — flaws that had allowed me to be connected so incestuously with Ladhar Bheinn , Riggindale and the rest in the first place . |