Example sentences of "thing [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one thing exhausts me and that is the red tape of bureaucrats . |
| 2 | Some foul glutinous thing got me by the legs and ankles . |
| 3 | ‘ This ABS thing fascinates me You just ca n't get it to skid , can you ? |
| 4 | The personality thing concerned me a little — for a club is all its members . |
| 5 | Perhaps I 'm too hard on her , but the whole thing has me on edge . |
| 6 | There 's only one thing beats me . |
| 7 | Punch , in particular Bargepole 's column , is the only thing keeping me in England at the moment . |
| 8 | There 's only one thing worries me . |
| 9 | ‘ I take no delight in death , Lewis , and if one thing worries me above all else it is accidents — the random concourse of atoms in the void , as Epicurus used to say . ’ |
| 10 | I wanted this thing to hear me loud and clear . |
| 11 | ‘ She did every single thing to help me that anyone could . |
| 12 | One thing concerns me though — why , at such a vital stage of the close season , are the Glens advertising for a manager ? |
| 13 | ‘ I have , but it 's a fascinating place and always casts a fresh spell over me , though this trip the island wo n't be the only thing to enchant me . ’ |
| 14 | One thing baffles me about that , Lord Wilson : you were Prime Minister , you were the boss , you were presiding over Cabinet government . |
| 15 | This rock thing baffles me , especially when people reach up and try to touch your hand . |
| 16 | ‘ Or worse still , if he was going to have her killed , it would be a nice tidy thing to give me the same treatment , and Joel too . |
| 17 | Only one thing surprised me — I did n't recognise her voice and I had thought I would . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , all right , so I thought the decision was surprising , but I 'd long since realized that if I allowed that sort of thing to keep me awake at night I was going to be a chronic insomniac . |
| 19 | ‘ One thing puzzles me , ’ Whitlock said at length . |
| 20 | Only one thing worried me — my trunks , particularly the one containing all my own medical ‘ supplies ’ . |
| 21 | Now this sort of thing bothers me . |
| 22 | ‘ The homosexual thing bothers me . |
| 23 | Then he surprised her by asking , ‘ Just one thing bothers me . |
| 24 | At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school . |
| 25 | ‘ Blasted thing gives me the willies ! ’ |
| 26 | This thing gave me a shock on my first flight , a back-seat familiarisation flip . |
| 27 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 28 | ‘ One thing disappoints me , ’ Maria mentioned mischievously against Luke 's shoulder . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , most of it fits , but just one thing niggles me about Dr Armitage 's story . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ One thing strikes me as odd , Mr Newman , ’ he began , his manner officious . |