Example sentences of "a [noun] that [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't find a bit that Give me the pencil and let me show you . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was a tag that surprised me very much the first time I heard it … but now I 've stopped worrying . |
| 4 | A presence that disturbs me with the joy |
| 5 | And I chose a conception that promised me a child of certain defined personality characteristics as well as physical ones . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It is a question that takes me utterly by surprise as you obviously admire all this . |
| 8 | I was sufficiently idiotic to love with a longing that weakened me as though I was bleeding . |
| 9 | They had to tap the source of my strength and turn it against me , until it formed a carapace , a cage that held me until they were ready to pronounce punishment . ’ |
| 10 | It is a process that allows me to locate myself in a space , to understand a space in terms of my physical movement . |
| 11 | Even if I did n't have a job that keeps me at the other end of the country for most of the year , this sort of place could n't provide a living . |
| 12 | You tell me where there 's a union 'll get me a job that pays me any more to go off at half-past three — ’ |
| 13 | I mean as I said when I was filling in the questionnaire I was thinking well this , really this is my preference and you know I 'd much rather be in a job that allowed me some flexibility . |
| 14 | I immediately backtracked , and he said with a sorrow that made me feel guilty , ‘ When push comes to shove , nobody wants me . ’ |
| 15 | Foreignness for me provided a difference that moved me in a way that sexual difference never did ’ ( ‘ Home and Abroad ’ , 44 , my emphasis ) . |
| 16 | But then there was a sound that sent me swiftly to the door . |
| 17 | A shop that fascinated me as a youngster was Wrides , towards the Ivy Street end of Catherine Street . |
| 18 | ‘ Flaubert is writer of rare merit , — he replied , using Gustave 's family name in a manner that shocked me , ‘ but he is held back from being a genius by ill health . ’ |
| 19 | This was a prospect that made me feel ill . |
| 20 | When I wrote ‘ Nirvana ’ , it was just supposed to be this positive thing about a song that made me wan na go and live , not really a political thing , like you say someone might hear that and go out and try to change things . |
| 21 | He was unusually distrait as he buttered a slice of toast and cut into one of the rashers on his plate , then after a minute 's thoughtful chewing he brought down his hand on the table with a suddenness that made me jump . |
| 22 | I had some material and they said they would make it up into a Kamiz for me , so next time I went there I took along a garment that fitted me . |
| 23 | It 's not a subject that fascinates me . |
| 24 | I 'm quite sure that when she said that , come see a man that told me everything I did , she did n't just leave it there , but she 'd have put such words as and he did n't condemn me he did n't berate me he did n't point a judgemental finger at me , but he loved me ! |
| 25 | He 's convinced that my lover and I are waiting eagerly for that event , so he 's written a will that leaves me destitute . |
| 26 | A voice that called me ‘ old boy ’ suggested that I ‘ toddle over the road and meet me in Greenwich Village at the corner of Bleeker Street and MacDougal . |
| 27 | Jean-Claude 's use of the word — the way he spat it out as if dirt clung to it — was a blasphemy that made me feel sick . |
| 28 | FROM Sasbach my next target was the Danube , a drive that took me through the Black Forest . |
| 29 | This presented a thought that made me shudder with fright : this awesome , eerie world-apart in the dead of night , unbearably cold , no moon or stars , merely the moan of the mysterious gods beneath the ice … |
| 30 | ‘ She has been the target of such spite that it disgraces those who offer it , and she bears it with a dignity that makes me proud , ’ he said as Mrs Kinnock stood behind him , smiling but with tears in her eyes . |