Example sentences of "[that] [verb] me [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 2 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been telling myself I would n't let this happen , ’ he rasped , ‘ but there 's something about you that drives me to the edge of my control . ’ |
| 4 | So that got me over the turkey . |
| 5 | Well that got me to a lot of good for warmth ! |
| 6 | " Tell me , my sister , " said Vasilissa , " who was the white knight that passed me in the forest ? " |
| 7 | The walk that defeated me on the way up seemed to take about five minutes coming down , and despite the forced cheery countenance of my friends , I knew I had ruined the day . |
| 8 | Foreignness for me provided a difference that moved me in a way that sexual difference never did ’ ( ‘ Home and Abroad ’ , 44 , my emphasis ) . |
| 9 | That shooting The London boxing promoter Mickey Duff said : ‘ The only thing that worries me at the moment is his speedy recovery . ’ |
| 10 | It was Mr Hurd 's first paragraph that drew me to the rest of the review . |
| 11 | I had never really noticed before this common use of the label that identified me as a means to imply wilful ignorance . |
| 12 | so the second level of using theory was to actually begin to find out what I could do to help myself and that threw me into the middle of ‘ what is knowledge ? ’ |
| 13 | IT ALWAYS used to be Chrismuzak — the sound of synthesised carols in stores and malls — that turned me into a Scrooge . |
| 14 | I think that one of the things that get me at the moment is the time keeping , it 's very bad |
| 15 | One of the first things to happen after my arrival at Bourn was the phasing out of Stirling bombers , so that the one that followed me around the perimeter track must have been one of the last to operate from there . |
| 16 | So I guess the bucket of cold water that hit me in the face did n't come as much of a surprise . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One thing that puzzled me as a boy was Mrs. Farrer 's hair — it used to change overnight from snow white to jet black and a few days later it was white again . |
| 19 | Let It Rock did unbelievably good business Friday night or Saturday morning a lorry would turn up with a delivery of creepers — the very things that enticed me into the shop in the first place . |
| 20 | A shop that fascinated me as a youngster was Wrides , towards the Ivy Street end of Catherine Street . |
| 21 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 22 | The war drums throbbed , a muffled , far-carrying , never-ceasing sound that thrilled me to the core ; the five-foot trumpets brayed . |
| 23 | I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director . |
| 24 | If I give a hitcher a lift I expect social interaction and ca n't abide the ones that use me like a bus service , mute to the point of rudeness . |
| 25 | A presence that disturbs me with the joy |
| 26 | One thing that intrigued me in the course of my meeting with Kagan was his careful enquiries about what duties were involved in membership of the House of Lords . |
| 27 | It was probably the idea of having to hang on for no more than two months that convinced me of the value of these silly prophesies , but I was a true believer . |
| 28 | Thus it is not their sex but their preponderance that moves me on the grounds of statistical fairness to refer to them as she . |
| 29 | It was then that I began to discover the fate that awaited me as a female . |
| 30 | There were peaks in view that reminded me to the Matterhorn , of Ober Gabelhorn and Wellenkuppe . |