Example sentences of "it [verb] me that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It irritates me that I ca n't think of enough rare foods I have n't had and have wanted to have . |
| 2 | ‘ It upsets me that I still have this ‘ enfant terrible ’ reputation . |
| 3 | It upsets me that this happens . |
| 4 | All of that I could understand , but it concerned me that she was so nervous and desperately unhappy . |
| 5 | It angers me that an insurance company attempted to kick us in the teeth when all we were trying to do was protect ourselves . ’ |
| 6 | You will gather I mean it caught me unawares , and in fact it disturbed me that having a bit of a wobbly on something as simple as this did not bode well for the Devil 's Ridge , which The Munros book described as a section where ‘ some may welcome the security of a rope ’ . |
| 7 | I also take the American Freshwater and Marine Aquarium , and it amazes me that you can buy , for instance , a pump which sells for in Britain . |
| 8 | It amazes me that a pair of shoes made in the north of England can cost more in common currency in London than that same pair of shoes shipped 3,000 miles to New York . |
| 9 | It amazes me that the fine for moving a seat reservation card is actually more that the one for pulling the communication cord . |
| 10 | She said : ‘ It amazes me that they can just stand on the street . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , it amazes me that none of you has apparently thought of comparing the print-outs of yesterday with today 's work . |
| 12 | It amazes me that they do n't use it , they do n't use the media in some way . |
| 13 | It amazes me that there are still some people who equate morality with Christianity . |
| 14 | ‘ It worries me that impresarios are using the Russian label to make money at the expense of companies like us , like the Scottish and Northern Ballet . |
| 15 | We 'll need as much exposure as possible in the first couple of years , but it worries me that there 's no independent ‘ father figure ’ capable of speaking for the whole game and making sure it does n't ‘ do a snooker ’ . ‘ |
| 16 | It worries me that turning a blind eye to the deliberate starvation of these patients is portrayed as contributing in some way to the high ethical standards of the nursing profession . ’ |
| 17 | It appals me that anybody in government can considerate it appropriate to use terms like mum 's army , with the connotations that that has with Captain Mainwaring and his bimbling set of idiots . |
| 18 | But that was your real nature , and it told me that nothing would make you kill an innocent man , a complete stranger , who had done you no harm . |
| 19 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 20 | When you put all these factors together it concerns me that nobody has been advancing the case that as with other districts , some other districts in York , it would be appropriate , even more appropriate in my view , that the migration assumption should be discounted , there are in my view special reasons why this should be the case , special reasons over and above tho those that have been applied , to the other districts , this in my view would be that the Greater York housing provision for all those reasons I 've just highlighted , should be reduced , should be reduced to the seventy five percent level , in other words that would be reducing it by between a thousand and twelve hundred and fifty houses , now I wo n't get on to the reason that the fact that that 's one reason why there 's no need for a new settlement , erm but it is a reason in its own right just to protect the character and the capacity requirements and the environmental sensitivities of the Greater York area . |
| 21 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 22 | Now it concerns me that er I do n't want to be associated with the possible charge of elitism if we 're only associated with independent schools . |
| 23 | Anyway , I learn quickly ; it showed me that I 'm on my own — my dear parents , bless them , are simply too pure and innocent to see what is so obvious to me . |
| 24 | Or the nineteen thirties book is like one of the things that really inspired me because it showed me that you can do type that looks as though , I mean it can be composed as though in metal and not be boring — can not be , manufactured , you know hum drum , by varying the weights and by massing it , and also one of the things they do , that you see in those books that you did n't see in printing , was this size of type . |
| 25 | ‘ It taught me that an engineer can do a whole range of things and not just fiddle around with cars in dirty overalls ’ |
| 26 | It depresses me that people do n't see our sense of humour , ’ says Steve , Bruce Forsyth style . |
| 27 | ‘ It frightened me that you had not told me . |
| 28 | To give me this day at your side was an unforeseen joy , but it oppresses me that it is undeserved : that Famagusta is not yet yours . |
| 29 | When I look back , it 's impossible to pin-point a moment when it hit me that I was ‘ successful ’ . |
| 30 | Not great poetry , by any means ; but it convinces me that Crabbe and Peter Grimes and myself do stop beside an opening sluice , and that we are looking at an actual English tideway , and not at some vague , vast imaginary waterfall , which crashes from nowhere to nowhere . |