Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not your isolation that concerns me , ’ he informed her drily . |
| 2 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 3 | That was the obsession that made me write this . ’ |
| 4 | But it was your axe that hit me , borne down by his sword . |
| 5 | She came to St Bartholomew 's Hospital to be operated on , but it 's her mind that interests me . |
| 6 | The fear that overtakes me seems to increase as we get closer to the big day . |
| 7 | It may be only outsider skepticism that leads me to see a subtle , probably subconscious new emphasis on the word ‘ choice ’ . |
| 8 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's getting back in one piece that worries me . |
| 10 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 11 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 12 | It 's not the cost ( £200+ ) of a boat that worries me , it 's more the mechanisation of a basic fishing skill like working a bait on the wind that niggles . |
| 13 | It was the therapy that gave me the strength to leave my girlfriend because through it I established the fact that I was prone to passivity , always waiting for other people to call the shots . |
| 14 | Give 'em all my autograph that write me . ’ |
| 15 | Thirdly , it was not just the bald declarations of innocence that impressed me , but the nature and quality of those declarations : there were passages in both books which , as in Meehan 's letters to me , had the sharp ring of truth . |
| 16 | it 's , or , or my driver 's capability that worry me |
| 17 | The boots have a Vibram dual density sole that gave me all the grip and comfort I needed over steep wet grass and rough ground . |
| 18 | It may have been the horse that roused me from my sleep . |
| 19 | ‘ It was the live side that struck me as being a bit special , ’ he says . |
| 20 | So in this merry mood of self flagellation I shall tell you the story of one monumental cock-up that taught me two very important lessons . |
| 21 | We talked a lot , laughed a lot , drank a lot — another round in the warming game of friendship that left me happy at the time , and aching afterwards as I contemplated the lonely bed . |
| 22 | It was only this monthly accounting that worried me though , for I read every patient 's case notes with avidity . |
| 23 | And I chose a conception that promised me a child of certain defined personality characteristics as well as physical ones . |
| 24 | It was your hair that got me . |
| 25 | Aunt Lilian was aware — more than Aunt Kit was aware , anyway — of what might be thought a young girl 's natural pre-occupations , and it was she who took me to buy clothes and lipsticks , asking the sales girls ' advice with a gentle humility that touches me now , because she was not humble by nature and thought an interest in personal adornment the mark of a trivial mind . |
| 26 | In a more complex case I might sit in on a discussion within a committee but begin to consider that it is not moving in a direction that suits me . |
| 27 | It might not surprise you that it 's the highways budget that concerns me . |
| 28 | I 'm about to sign a new contract that makes me virtually a Santa Barbara resident , and we locals do n't mix with you tourists ! ’ |
| 29 | The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince . |
| 30 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |