Example sentences of "but it [verb] [vb infin] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't actually have to tell me that I am ‘ earthed ’ but it does remind me that I am . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't mind if the lads have a laugh at my expense , that 's all part of the dressing-room banter , but it does upset me that I 'm supposed to have had a row with the manager . |
| 3 | And I learn quite a lot myself but it does give me that little bit of a challenge that er I think is helpful in retirement . |
| 4 | Just to add to what 's been said erm there , there have been some points raised er along the lines I 've mentioned and as a result of that erm it is felt that erm notification to members who are not on the application sub-committee of applications which affect their ward area could be improved and that is er I hope to be the subject of a report to the next meeting of the Application Sub-Committee , so that er matter i is something which is , which is being picked up and will be considered by that sub-committee but it does give me the opportunity to say that erm the definition of a complaint i is certainly not a precise one and I certainly would n't want members of this committee to feel that I was being complacent er as a result of there only being three complaints that we received . |
| 5 | So once again , I 'm on the gloom and doom to a certain extent , but it does worry me because you see somewhere down the line , ladies and gentlemen , we shall need this skill , we shall need this pool of skilled people , and at the moment they 're just not there at all ! |
| 6 | But it does concern me very much , not just the loss of jobs but it 's the loss of services in this area . |
| 7 | But it does require me going to see Eddie . |
| 8 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 9 | This study was retrospective , rather than an investigation of the processes of evaluation in the school , but it did enable me to have a comparative dimension and to discuss some of the long-term effects of the process . |
| 10 | I can not truthfully say that my work experience directly influenced my ambitions career wise but it did show me that the music business is not about ‘ Top of the Pops ’ but about a day 's work to be proud of . |
| 11 | No doubt his pack of men would have returned later to retrieve it , but it did strike me as a rather unsatisfactory way to spend a day in the hills . |
| 12 | Erm I I 'm speaking from recollection sir at having looked into this in the context of planning appeal which is now a little while ago , but it did strike me at the time that er there was a definite feeling that the agricultural issue was very strong protection of ag agricultural land throughout was a strong issue up to er the mid nineteen eighties and certainly was up to the time in late seventy nine early nineteen eighty and er therefore there was a feeling that Policy E three simply er was supplementary to those other policies . |
| 13 | ‘ It did n't seem to bother Ally but it did concern me . |