Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] it [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHORTCOMING I can use the system but part of it bothers me |
| 2 | Occasionally the sight or smell of it nauseated me , and I found certain smells , like those of bread or sugar or chocolate , overpowering . |
| 3 | Do n't think the morality of it troubles me for an instant . |
| 4 | It was n't a sound I ever remembered him having made , but certain things about it made me think it came from Quigley . |
| 5 | As though my relationship to it dirtied me . |
| 6 | Finally we climbed a bank and were on the road again , the smoothness of it lulling me into such a deep sleep that I never saw the barrier at the railway crossing , did not even hear them telling Ward the Jequetepeque had broken its banks a little further on . |
| 7 | The route to it took me past Rebecca 's school . |
| 8 | At a minimum it would seem reasonable to return to the stark simplicity of the RSPCA 150 years ago and agree not to inflict pain on my fellow creatures because pain helps no one and the infliction of it brutalises me . |
| 9 | " The very thought of it chills me to the bone . " |
| 10 | The mere thought of it gives me the horrors , ’ Silas admitted . |
| 11 | ‘ The very thought of it makes me want to press the panic button , crawl under the bed and call for HRT , ’ says one friend . |
| 12 | Life inside the Service might have its limitations but the thought of life outside it terrified me . |
| 13 | Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … . |
| 14 | The pain of it took me back to that earlier pain as a six-year-old , and all the anguish of inappropriate separation . |
| 15 | The explosive pain of it brought me hellishly back to full savage consciousness and to a revived desire not to become part of the eternal mystery just yet . |
| 16 | And he 's not to leave a bee-sting in it to prick me ! ’ |