Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] me " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But you 'll never have the strength to send me away — you 're so weak , Bob , that it embarrasses me — and in the end the job will fall to me ; I shall have to send myself away . |
| 2 | The way I viewed training was that it got me out of the house . |
| 3 | ‘ But that does n't mean that it suits me , Aunt Louise . |
| 4 | He wrote : ‘ And also that it sustains me , in ways that I ca n't explain . |
| 5 | I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit . |
| 6 | Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting , the ducks beautifully camouflaged , sitting tight as long as they could , then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag . |
| 7 | I waited to see her face tense as if it was an airtight balloon on a stick ; never mind that it made me choke somewhere in my chest . |
| 8 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 9 | I took the cliff road and the wind could be so fierce that it blew me off my bike more than once . |
| 10 | Just that it struck me as strange . |
| 11 | Not that it bothers me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I just feel that it tells me nothing about them . ’ |
| 14 | yeah well you know it 's okay well you know I well you know yeah it 's just that it worried me about this meeting here and three people out of the five people in the room did n't realise that it was a reservations and booking service . |
| 15 | ‘ All I know is that it cost me a lot of money to learn . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't know what it was about , but I know that it shocked me into the sort of terror that I did n't know I was capable of . |
| 17 | You were standing by the boat , demanding that I let you on board , and I felt such a raw , aching need lance through me that it shocked me . |
| 18 | For God 's sake , what is it I have got from him , that it sets me so high ? |
| 19 | The huge advantage of fame is that it gives me , for no proper reason , access to people that I would never otherwise have . |
| 20 | I 've told you that it gives me a terrific edge in any sale where Kemp 's a bidder . |
| 21 | The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent . |
| 22 | can I say that it gives me particular pleasure to introduce Steven not least , because Steven Hughes is one of our colleagues in parliament who does a fantastic job for the trade union movement . |
| 23 | Yeah , I , I 'm suggesting that the facilities management contract , be referred to the budget review sub-committee for consideration , and in that way we can actually consider it , and obviously if the report is not yet prepared , erm , perhaps we can put some input into it , I have to say , that it disturbs me to be given an answer , that do n't worry everybody , there 's a report coming , and then we suddenly say well , we might like to look at it in three weeks time , we 're told actually it 's not written yet . |
| 24 | Their reaction was so encouraging that it gave me the strength to carry on . |
| 25 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 26 | Er as I said on , on Thursday night , that it saddens me about , that I 'm also an ex-patient of . |
| 27 | In spite of my umbrella the shoulders of my trenchcoat were soaked , not that it bothered me . |
| 28 | It was only much later that it hit me and that was more shock than something could happen again . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ One good thing to come out of it was that it inspired me to play guitar and turned me into the person I am . ’ |