Example sentences of "[vb past] me was [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 2 | What got me was the way she made this rather bizarre suggestion seem so utterly reasonable . |
| 3 | What woke me was the land singing . |
| 4 | Then I hear the guy laugh downstairs and what really woke me was the dog . |
| 5 | What amazed me was the space — long stretches of beautiful beach with just a handful of people on them even on a Bank Holiday . |
| 6 | What amazed me was the way Ray did such a spectacular somersault just to convince little Louis that he really had scored victory . |
| 7 | What really amazed me was the way the hawk seemed to know out of which hole the rabbit was going to pop even before its ears appeared . |
| 8 | What amazed me was the number of Black workers who turned up . |
| 9 | A little crowd was encouraging them while they performed what somebody told me was a tango . |
| 10 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 11 | I do n't even know whether anything she told me was the truth . |
| 12 | ‘ What really scared me was the thought of forgetting those lines , ’ said Crawford . |
| 13 | The crew member who befriended me was an exRN Officer Phil Andrews , MBE , one of nature 's gentlemen . |
| 14 | Another thing that surprised me was the manager 's quotes after the defeat at Spurs . |
| 15 | But what really disgusted me was the sight of other people eating . |
| 16 | Another thing that interested me was a comment from an ex-Liverpool defender who said , and I quote : ‘ If Alan Shearer had joined Manchester United , it would have been a question of who finished second ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The job he offered me was a sort of general factotum , a personal troubleshooter , but he wanted someone with a financial background . |
| 18 | The most he ever offered me was an aspirin , ’ Mr Takiff said . |
| 19 | ‘ What eventually swayed me was the fact that Hibs were a big club with a greater potential support , although at that point I probably had a better squad of players in Paisley . |
| 20 | ‘ What really intrigued me was the scorch mark on the outside of the door facing the gallery , as well as the damage done to the heavy bedstead . |
| 21 | ‘ The most you ever bought me was a lager . ’ |
| 22 | What bugged me was the way they sampled that line ‘ Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day ’ from the film Withnail and I. It was a shame , since what I liked was the way the album had its own space and logic . |
| 23 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 24 | Another flower that astonished me was the bloom of the Golden Abutilon . |
| 25 | In retrospect , the greatest disservice Charles Howard ever did me was the way he had somehow made it impossible for me to trust this man . |
| 26 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 27 | The first thing that struck me was the weight of everything . |
| 28 | It was the furthest north I had ever travelled and the first thing that struck me was the strangeness of the dialect . |
| 29 | Another thing that struck me was the difference in sexual attitudes between Germany and Britain . |
| 30 | Erm the gentleman who took us round who was excellent er what impressed me was the fact that it was no sort of straight patters one gets with guides you know when you go round these places . |