Example sentences of "[that] [verb] me [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Six years , and then burning up this last week I 've spent in Singapore , regretting the entrenched prejudices that stopped me making love to you last time we were together . |
| 3 | things that cause me blocking , bondage , fear , sin , shortcoming ( where I will sometimes need another 's help especially if they involve my past . |
| 4 | Increasingly I find that this kind of exchange — this candour , this reciprocity — is one of the things that keeps me trundling along . |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes it really gets me down , ’ he admits , ‘ but the thing that keeps me goin' is live performances . |
| 6 | It 's the thought of you that keeps me going when I begin to flag or feel a bit faint-hearted … |
| 7 | He said ‘ The one thing that keeps me going is knowing that for every step I take and every pound donated we are one step nearer to finding a cure . ’ |
| 8 | no , no , well when I , when I get it , the thing that gets me going is this , that complete car cost me er six thousand , eight hundred |
| 9 | And that started me thinking . |
| 10 | But it was ‘ Tusk ’ that started me thinking along the lines of trying to be true to what I think 's interesting and not necessarily just what people want to hear . ’ |
| 11 | And that started me thinking . |
| 12 | I was recently talking to the mother of a four year old boy about his progress at learning his letters , when I realized just how responsible and vulnerable she felt about his lack of progress , and that started me thinking about the educational process and the pressures that we put on ourselves and our children to succeed . |
| 13 | It was love that kept me going ; it was ambition to be a poet that fuelled Dana 's labour and yoked it with mine . |
| 14 | And it was not helping the poor that kept me going , but the thought of having to admit that I had no stomach . |
| 15 | Yet it was not God that kept me going but my critics . |
| 16 | The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps . |
| 17 | Yet , despite the desperate fatigue and the fear that I might be making a fool of myself , I was seized with a curious elation that kept me going . |
| 18 | And it was this that kept me going . |
| 19 | ‘ I knew there were only seconds to go and could feel my strength failing with each moment , and a drifting kind of sleep coming on me which whispered , ‘ Give up , Minch , give up … ’ and it was only the knowledge that I was of Callanish , the greatest of the sites , that kept me fighting those few more seconds . |
| 20 | On a sea of evening light Páll Helgason steers his boat towards the sun , poking it between stacks and through arches , sometimes into gaps that leave me thinking I can touch the rock walls on either side . |
| 21 | With various delicate transitions that left me sighing in assent , the film now turned into a gentle parodic love story , the girl civilizing Spunk — teaching him how to dress , eat , speak — and Spunk decivilizing her : teaching her to kick the booze , the pick-ups , the self-destruction , the money ( they go primitive for a while , after Spunk has an urban breakdown . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's one of the blokes that stops me viring ? ’ |
| 23 | The doctor told me they were strong : in fact he prescribed them for me but it seems more logical to give them to Mum since it 's her that stops me sleeping . |