Example sentences of "[art] [noun] that [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was then that I began to discover the fate that awaited me as a female . |
| 32 | The memory of Nancy brings me back to the question that occupied me so much , what was it about the Centre that could transform misery , bitterness and hatred into love and hope , and possibly even happiness , all in the space of fourteen days ? |
| 33 | The non-assertive quality is of course obvious in all the uses of blend dare which parallel those of the full modal : ( 48 ) And when I saw he was attracted by someone else , the fear and the jealousy that seized me ! |
| 34 | I think it was the wine that made me real tired . |
| 35 | To tell you the truth that bothers me more than them . |
| 36 | It was the rain that saved me . |
| 37 | Aloud , she said : ‘ I have your mother 's book on the Camisards as well , of course — that is the period that interests me particularly — but I want to learn about more recent history as well . ’ |
| 38 | But it was the natural kindness of the Duke that helped me most . |
| 39 | I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid |
| 40 | What bothered me mo well wha one of the things that bothers me is the fact that he said that he would n't like to do hospital chaplaincy because he would n't like to go visiting because he 's got no small talk . |
| 41 | Increasingly I find that this kind of exchange — this candour , this reciprocity — is one of the things that keeps me trundling along . |
| 42 | This respect is summed up by a quote in In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman : ‘ You know , one of the things that strikes me most about McDonald 's is their people orientation . |
| 43 | Conservative loyalists said Mr Tebbit had made a blunder , but he showed no sign of backing off from ‘ one of the things that brought me into politics — the belief that immigration should be reduced ’ . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | It 's one of the things that gets me down about it . |
| 46 | One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it was always talking about a Dark Power in the universe — a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease , and sin . |
| 47 | ‘ They were among the things that attracted me . ’ |
| 48 | In fact , there 's no end to the things that irritate me about television news — the inane scripts , for one . |
| 49 | I think that one of the things that get me at the moment is the time keeping , it 's very bad |
| 50 | ‘ One of the things that struck me as an outsider , coming into the firm two and a half years ago , was that there was no accountability , ’ recalls Mel Smaje . |
| 51 | One of the things that bothered me most in the villages of the Delta was the treatment given to women in childbirth . |
| 52 | And it is the exciting part of my job is to make these links work , start to build on them , and over our links in the city on the environmental and group with Tony Benn , that 's that 's doing a very good job , he is a platform for this , for each other , but I think there 's a lot more we can do locally erm within the city to build those links , and to work together for better answers for the city , and I hope that , on a practical level , one of the things that interested me was your grants team for local organisations , and I would like to think myself here today , we might look at the health authority , and try to join with them to make some erm practical contribution , particularly to those many carers , and groups of people who have problems , and we 're not all just professionals best able to put over during our normal nine-to-five or eight-to-eight days , we we can . |
| 53 | ‘ One of the things that worries me is too many parents allow their kids to see videos classified 15 or 18 . |
| 54 | But I think there is I mean something that ought to be mentioned one of the things that worries me is that there is n't here today a man of the type that I meet every day in Oxford who says ‘ sexual harassment ? |
| 55 | Whenever he was out he set himself the task ‘ to study how and why until I discovered how I should have played the ball that beat me ’ . |
| 56 | It was n't the belt-tightening that depressed me , nor Tod 's refractory and sinister cheer , which in any case did n't last long . |
| 57 | Yeah It was n't that it was n't the lumps that bothered me it was the uhum , the fact that the edges just does n't stay down . |
| 58 | It 's not only the menu that worries me , Robyn thought despondently , as she heard the Range Rover start up ; what about the way I look and feel ? |
| 59 | ‘ But it 's the publicity that worries me . |
| 60 | That set me wondering , but it was reading the diary that made me know . ’ |