Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [that] [vb past] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 2 | That was the obsession that made me write this . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 4 | It was the cold that forced me to move . |
| 5 | Cos it was in with the electric bills , and I did n't want that , and that was one of the advantages that made me decide to have here , cos I knew that the heating was in with the rent . |
| 6 | That set me wondering , but it was reading the diary that made me know . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe it was seeing the Dawsons that made me realise that you ca n't lose something you never had . ’ |
| 8 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 9 | Says Reagan : ‘ The speaker that followed me spoke in Spanish and he was being applauded about every paragraph . |
| 10 | The thing that kept me glued to the TV was the gorgeous Jennifer Capriati with her magnificent looks , great personality and brilliant tennis . |
| 11 | The thing that made me feel he was more normal was this little bit of dialogue . |
| 12 | She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’ |
| 13 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 14 | It must have been the totality of the situation that made me feel that heaven was very near and the invisible clearly seen . |
| 15 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 16 | Initially it was the drumming that got me bouncing in my seat , but when the bass came in I just could n't help grinning insanely at all the other drivers , wishing they could hear it too ( mind you , I had it up so loud that they probably could ) . |
| 17 | I immediately backtracked , and he said with a sorrow that made me feel guilty , ‘ When push comes to shove , nobody wants me . ’ |
| 18 | This was a prospect that made me feel ill . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 … |
| 23 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 24 | She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace . |
| 25 | The first I new was Chris 's sudden , shocked screaming , with an urgency that made me drop what I was doing and run across the room to the open verandah . |