Example sentences of "[adj] thing that [vb -s] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's another thing that makes me wonder if the crazed geniuses who developed the first Intelloids were n't perpetrating some subtly painful joke on the human race . |
| 2 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
| 3 | ‘ The real thing that shocks me is my own stupidity , ’ Sabine said curtly , brushing away the caressing hand . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's only one thing that puzzles me about all this . ’ |
| 7 | It 's the one thing that puts me off breeding — I love children , but I ca n't stand babies . ’ |
| 8 | One thing that infuriates me , though , is juice cups . |
| 9 | But there is just one thing that worries me : tucked away in the bottom left-hand corner on the back cover of the jewel case is the innocent phrase ‘ Works revised by Roberto Duarte ’ ; it is explained nowhere else . |
| 10 | ‘ The one thing that worries me is that I do n't think he cares . |
| 11 | One thing that interests me erm is you know , a lot of the shops have n't survived . |
| 12 | The only thing that gets me steamed up is when they have a go at you . |
| 13 | ‘ The only thing that rankles me is what she says about Ireland . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's the only thing that suits me ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That shooting The London boxing promoter Mickey Duff said : ‘ The only thing that worries me at the moment is his speedy recovery . ’ |
| 17 | It 's the only thing that worries me . |
| 18 | The only thing , the only thing that worries me is that the thing gets priority . |
| 19 | The only thing that worries me about taking that out is that you then create a massive empty space , if you have got |
| 20 | It 's the only thing that makes me proud about that country . |
| 21 | The only thing that makes me doubt that is that the general proposition underlying it appears to have received some incoherent support from the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 22 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 23 | ‘ The only other thing that worries me , ’ said a chap in the bar , ‘ is how I 'm gannin' to get oot tonight . ’ |
| 24 | Erm , one of the things that depresses me , is probably the main thing that depresses me is not being valued for what I am or what I do and I think many women suffer from depression because their strengths and their creativity are not recognised and valued . |
| 25 | The main thing that upsets me is the fact that she 's a bastard . |