Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
| 2 | But it was quite a different contrast that struck me there in Alison 's kitchen : the aching disparity between the woman who stood there , impatient for me to be gone , and the one I was going home to . |
| 3 | Severed as I was from Father and from Helmut , living in a foreign country , was it the fear of further severance that kept me in this unequal concurrence ? |
| 4 | Although it looked completely different , it was this truck that gave me the concept for ‘ MiniMag ’ , the 27ft ( 8m ) articulated truck that we used for Mrs Thatcher 's open-air meetings in the 1987 election . |
| 5 | And , perhaps , with this act of treachery I can finally buy my freedom from the burden of buried horror that bound me to Andy twenty years ago , so that — dispossessed of that trespass — I 'm left free to betray him again , now . |
| 6 | I will find some shops that suit me . ’ |
| 7 | And yet , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I also knew that it was this cold that drew me , this steady destruction of body and imagination , this utter alienness , as though only that could still excite me , as though anything less alien would only leave me indifferent . |
| 8 | It was this question that decided me . |
| 9 | ‘ I attended various social functions that required me to have a female escort , ’ he said through clenched teeth . |
| 10 | Yes , and I never heard of this And there 's another lady that brought me a picture with four generations in . |
| 11 | It 's only my fevered imagination that keeps me warm . |
| 12 | Sometimes I will have abandoned a painting , got really tired of it and feel it 's not getting anywhere , and you will come and make some remark that makes me look at it again and think : oh yes , I could just pull that one together . |
| 13 | ‘ But there are some things that disturb me . |
| 14 | There is again something about the tone of this minute that strikes me . |
| 15 | ‘ If you go out with another woman that interests me . ’ |
| 16 | More important to me was the need to obey this instinct that warned me to put some distance between us . ’ |
| 17 | Why do I need this sleep that covers me |
| 18 | He said ‘ You do n't look well , ’ to her once , meaning to be sympathetic , but she clouted him and said , ‘ It is living with an old man that makes me not well . |
| 19 | what is there in this brochure that tells me whether it 's the first edition , the second edition or the third edition ? |
| 20 | It was this image that accompanied me as I walked down the rue de Fleuve , stopping for a final coup d'oeil at the squat church crouching on its gravel ground . |
| 21 | Not in his normal voice but in a low , throaty baritone that reminded me of Vincent price in The Haunted Palace — my dad 's favourite picture : ‘ Albert Roger Quigley , do you remember me ? ’ |
| 22 | Another thing that surprised me more than anything was , our main supplier of tea , which we get over half our tea from now , is Kenya . |
| 23 | Another thing that surprised me was the manager 's quotes after the defeat at Spurs . |
| 24 | Another thing that cut me off from the other kids was going to the grammar school — and having to wear a bright green blazer every day . |
| 25 | Another thing that struck me was the difference in sexual attitudes between Germany and Britain . |
| 26 | Another thing that interested me was a comment from an ex-Liverpool defender who said , and I quote : ‘ If Alan Shearer had joined Manchester United , it would have been a question of who finished second ! ’ |
| 27 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 28 | Another thing that tickled me about that game was that when vinny had got his second he went over to one of the hoardings that had ‘ Alexei Sayle ’ written on it and kicked the shit out of it for some reason ( same goal I think as above ) |
| 29 | It 's another thing that makes me wonder if the crazed geniuses who developed the first Intelloids were n't perpetrating some subtly painful joke on the human race . |
| 30 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |