Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb past] me [vb infin] " 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 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! ! ) . |
| 14 | I immediately backtracked , and he said with a sorrow that made me feel guilty , ‘ When push comes to shove , nobody wants me . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was despair that made me believe there was one person in the world who might know that I was in despair . |
| 19 | It was a reunion at Bath that made me decide . |
| 20 | It was foolish hurt pride that made me behave so coldly towards you . |
| 21 | That set me wondering , but it was reading the diary that made me know . ’ |
| 22 | It was pure chance that made me notice the writing on the top file , as I pushed open the window . |
| 23 | The audience were a comic 's dream and when Dennie came back on stage and whispered ‘ two minutes to count-down ’ I ran off to applause that made me feel like Mike Tyson . |
| 24 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 25 | This was a prospect that made me feel ill . |
| 26 | ‘ Maybe it was seeing the Dawsons that made me realise that you ca n't lose something you never had . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 … |