Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Give 'em all my autograph that write me . ’
2 This was absolutely vital if I was ever to ‘ fly ’ her , because it would be the lure of food on my fist that made her come back to me .
3 There 's nothing about me that erm , excuse me , there 's nothing about my body that is essential to me , nothing about my body that individuates me and that 's why erm I take it one might think that erm I could actually be changed into a different body , so .
4 ‘ He is held in thrall to the Dark Ireland , but it was not my enchantment that chained him . ’
5 And there are other things about my job that remind me too much of Ghostbusters for comfort .
6 Instead it switched a light on inside my head that enabled me to see things , which at the time , were away beyond my full understanding .
7 ‘ I guess it was my name that alerted them ’ , said McIntosh whose grandfather emigrated from Edinburgh to New Zealand after the war .
8 It 's what you do to my inside that gets me upset . ’
9 just now , for instance , I could not sit & do nothing , since that only irritates my brain ; & it was then only my pipe that enabled me comfortably to read Rousseau 's ‘ Julie ; or the New Heloise ’ .
10 It was the reaction to my answers that interested me most .
11 ‘ It 's my eyesight that gets me , I ca n't read , my eyes start to water .
12 In my book that makes you a — ’
13 You see , it was really my dad that made me go along with the Church , even though he did n't really involve himself .
14 I like to think it was the gun in my bunker that hit it and forced the pilot to turn tail and dump his bombs .
15 It was only my threat that stopped him because if his hand had touched me I would have walked out of this house that very minute and I would n't have had to go far .
16 It was not my tambourine-playing that worried her , however .
17 Not really , it does n't annoy me but I know there are some like women older than me in in my office that know they 're not gon na get anywhere because it 's all men .
18 ‘ It is n't your presence in my office that disturbs me .
19 ‘ It 's your friendship with my mother that worries me most ! ’ she said stiffly , her cheeks flushing under the cool gaze he returned .
20 It 's their enthusiasm that inspires me .
21 In desperation he lifted her bodily off the ground so that she was helplessly pinned against his solid frame , and she discovered to her horror that hating him did n't in any way negate the way he could make her feel .
22 Shiona watched it , reflecting that the reason for her sensitivity was that her private life was the only area of her existence that gave her absolutely no satisfaction at all .
23 According to Friedman , it is the unwillingness of governments to tax-finance their activities that induces them to cover the gap between expenditures and taxes with money supply increases .
24 In January 1977 , amid rumours of a personality clash with Crawford , Frances Cuka left the production , exercising a clause in her contract that allowed her to go after four months .
25 I think it was her smell that got me started … like the braided loaves fresh from the baker 's oven .
26 ( Inimical means that certain remedies have been found to be similar in their action that prescribing them in succession leads to aggravation e.g. Mercury and Silica should n't follow each other without interposing some other remedy ) 2 ) The beauty of the LM system is encompassed in its ability to fulfill §.2 of The Organon :
27 Putting a companionable arm round her shoulders that made her shiver with awareness , he urged her in the direction of the village .
28 But those that came from arid islands and had to crane their necks in order to reach branches of cactus or leaves of trees , had much longer necks and a high peak to the front of their shells that enabled them to stretch their necks almost vertically upwards .
29 She came to St Bartholomew 's Hospital to be operated on , but it 's her mind that interests me .
30 The morning passed by in a flurry of activity , and she barely saw Dane , except for a fleeting moment as he rushed headlong along the corridor , pausing long enough to drop a kiss on her lips that turned her knees to water .
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