Example sentences of "puzzles me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I despise the idea and practice of blood sports , but this violent reaction threw up a profile of wildly inconsistent attitudes which puzzles me ; how is it that fox hunting is legal and fishing is the most popular outdoor recreational activity in Britain , yet badger killing invokes a desire for public retribution — lynch mob fever , almost — over and above the punishment of the courts ? |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Stevens , I have just noticed something outside which puzzles me . ’ |
| 3 | I shall merely be requesting information about a taste which puzzles me , not demanding a further reason without which the whole string of answers will prove to be baseless . |
| 4 | What puzzles me , I hope you do n't mind me saying this , but I … |
| 5 | But what puzzles me most is this : if you could lay your hands on 32 grand — in cash — why the hell would you buy a Nissan Bluebird ? |
| 6 | THE only thing that puzzles me about the Government decision to ban the Northern Irish Protestant terror gang , the UDA , is why it has taken them so long to do it . |
| 7 | ‘ What puzzles me , , someone remarks of her new kittens at the close of Under the Net , ‘ is why those two should be pure Siamese and the other ones quite different , instead of their all being half tabby and half Siamese . ’ |
| 8 | How they recognized you is what puzzles me . |
| 9 | This puzzles me . |
| 10 | ‘ One thing puzzles me , ’ Whitlock said at length . |
| 11 | One thing er pu puzzles me a little and gives me a little difficulty , that is erm the addendum refers to an invitation to all baptised members . |
| 12 | is what puzzles me . |
| 13 | The thing with this , the thing that puzzles me a bit er |
| 14 | What puzzles me is why we do n't do the obvious and go and find him . |
| 15 | ‘ Kill him , yes , but to do it that particularly brutal way puzzles me . |
| 16 | What puzzles me is why ? ’ |
| 17 | And that puzzles me , because Knudsen has only recently gained critical regard in Denmark . |
| 18 | I am unable to answer my hon. Friend 's first question ; it puzzles me , too . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's only one thing that puzzles me about all this . ’ |
| 20 | I follow the I follow the er the point , but the thing that puzzles me is that your South Ryedale local plan allocations have arisen out of the discussions on the Greater York study , yes ? |
| 21 | That still puzzles me ! |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , and that puzzles me . |
| 23 | What puzzles me is that er , erm much , much of these bright new people , all seem to dress in such a , a despicable fashion , do n't they , all sort of be , dressed and scruffy and er , and er whether they they 're so busy with |
| 24 | ‘ I think the players are used to lack of recognition , but it is something that puzzles me . |
| 25 | what puzzles me though The Gables |
| 26 | One of the things that always puzzles me about archives is it seems to me that there must be a limited number of archives , and there are an awful number of historians . |