Example sentences of "[art] thing that [vb -s] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Increasingly I find that this kind of exchange — this candour , this reciprocity — is one of the things that keeps me trundling along . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's one of the things that gets me down about it . |
| 6 | ‘ One of the things that worries me is too many parents allow their kids to see videos classified 15 or 18 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | ‘ Sometimes it really gets me down , ’ he admits , ‘ but the thing that keeps me goin' is live performances . |
| 9 | er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times |
| 10 | Weak form : ‘ The price is the thing that annoys me ’ |
| 11 | the thing that annoys me most is that , the amount of bad memories people have , I mean not bad memories as in bad thoughts , but bad |
| 12 | no , no , well when I , when I get it , the thing that gets me going is this , that complete car cost me er six thousand , eight hundred |
| 13 | The thing that gets me though is erm , when they done these exercise you 've got |
| 14 | And you know the thing , no wait a minute , the thing that gets me is you know when James fancied me ? |
| 15 | The thing that upsets me when I see all these pregnant people walking around is that I did n't do it . |
| 16 | LADY DAVERS : Aye , that 's the thing that kills me , [ calmly to PAMELA , a last , vicious attack ] have no fear , wench , no fear . |
| 17 | ’ The thing that bothers me about English training is that although acting is as demanding as ballet or opera , dancers and singers work out every day . |
| 18 | That , er , Chairman , if I could say the thing that bothers me here is that , it always has done about food , is that we should be keeping up to date with information , all these decisions and all this advice . |
| 19 | The thing with this , the thing that puzzles me a bit er |
| 20 | I follow the I follow the er the point , but the thing that puzzles me is that your South Ryedale local plan allocations have arisen out of the discussions on the Greater York study , yes ? |
| 21 | The thing that disturbs me about statistics is that they can be interpreted to mean anything . |
| 22 | Right erm the thing that disturbs me actually is this advertising budget so could you can you tell us erm what the timing of this advertising is in terms of Yeah can you turn that over please . |
| 23 | The thing that makes me believe in God is that there 's a special kind of weather on Sundays . |
| 24 | The extra bonus — the thing that makes me truly lucky — is that I can go home to the real friends and neighbours whose tales of burst drain-pipes , complicated recipes and domestic dramas sound every bit as interesting to me when I lack the leisure to enjoy them myself . |
| 25 | and that , that , that 's the thing that makes me retch , not the cutting , it 's when they just pull it apart |
| 26 | the thing is , the thing that makes me |
| 27 | And that , tha , that 's the thing that makes me red , it 's not the cutting it 's when they just pull it apart and it like |
| 28 | The thing that concerns me , as I go about describing , for the Nth time , the world 's most famous electric guitar , is that it 's all been said before . |
| 29 | I think touches on er the thing that concerns me most about this |
| 30 | Luce sighed , then said worriedly , ‘ The thing that concerns me most is what could have happened to the ring ? ’ |