Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb past] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 2 | That was the obsession that made me write this . ’ |
| 3 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 4 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 5 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Two years ago , I went on holiday to the States and witnessed scenes in clubs that made me realize women were n't as inhibited as I 'd thought . |
| 8 | The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet . |
| 9 | ‘ I came down from Manchester two days ago , to meet my fellow archdeacons , and the Bishop told me of your husband 's application and of course that made me wish to meet him , and to meet you . |
| 10 | I think it was her smell that got me started … like the braided loaves fresh from the baker 's oven . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 12 | It was the cold that forced me to move . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Alec wore a navy-blue romper suit — the outfit of a French workman , or indeed that of some little new-wave narcissist at a C. L. & S. screening It was the sight of him in his issued clothing that made me sense just how far he had fallen . |
| 15 | Every time they came forward , you expected something to happen ( perhaps It was sitting in the north bank with the Cockney scum that made me think this ! ! ) . |
| 16 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |
| 17 | ‘ I attended various social functions that required me to have a female escort , ’ he said through clenched teeth . |
| 18 | I immediately backtracked , and he said with a sorrow that made me feel guilty , ‘ When push comes to shove , nobody wants me . ’ |
| 19 | I have nothing against yesterday 's guitar heroes , indeed it was the Iommi article that caused me to buy your magazine again , but whoever it was in your office who opened up a copy of NME and stuck a pin in it should be encouraged to do so again . |
| 20 | And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching . |
| 21 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 22 | When the ‘ Robert Johnson , Father of the Delta Blues ’ album came out , that was one of the main things that made me want to play slide . |
| 23 | So it was the likes of that and these things that got me to know my staff and got my staff to know me . |
| 24 | Perhaps it was despair that made me believe there was one person in the world who might know that I was in despair . |
| 25 | Instead it switched a light on inside my head that enabled me to see things , which at the time , were away beyond my full understanding . |
| 26 | It was a reunion at Bath that made me decide . |
| 27 | Some of the sound tests were done by a computer and luckily I had access to a computer from my dealer in Bath that enabled me to set the sound up perfectly . |
| 28 | It was foolish hurt pride that made me behave so coldly towards you . |
| 29 | That set me wondering , but it was reading the diary that made me know . ’ |
| 30 | It was pure chance that made me notice the writing on the top file , as I pushed open the window . |