Example sentences of "it [vb past] me [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of that I could understand , but it concerned me that she was so nervous and desperately unhappy . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It taught me that an engineer can do a whole range of things and not just fiddle around with cars in dirty overalls ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It frightened me that you had not told me . |
| 8 | When I look back , it 's impossible to pin-point a moment when it hit me that I was ‘ successful ’ . |
| 9 | It decided me that I was n't going to be good enough to make the grade . |
| 10 | It worried me that I had reacted as I had . |
| 11 | I would n't have cared to live under the rule of Fagg myself , but I ca n't say it worried me that these people were getting short rations . |
| 12 | And it worried me that these are the sort of people that would have been advised into the committee . |
| 13 | I do n't want him , it worried me that he might come and bother your mother . |
| 14 | I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything . |
| 15 | It astonished me that a man who had kept his head under the most severe stresses and strains should lose both nerve and judgement in this way . |
| 16 | It struck me that Taff no longer used his favourite cuss words , like the four-letter variety , and was sticking strictly to the bloodys with the very often repeated ‘ Jesus Christ . ’ |
| 17 | It struck me that in calling me his heavenly brother he had gone straight to the heart of all our missionary endeavours . |
| 18 | At the time I was surprised by the information ; yet in retrospect it struck me that this , above everything else , was what had meant most to him during that afternoon 's work . |
| 19 | It struck me that since my discovery of AIM two years ago , my drawing , painting , and knowledge of other media and techniques have greatly improved . |
| 20 | It struck me that Jenny , my daughter , had said similar words to me years ago , and I had ignored them . |
| 21 | Even then I started out as a singer , until it struck me that I 'd absolutely no chance of making it — something to do with having an absolutely diabolical voice , I think . |
| 22 | It struck me that since my discovery of AIM two years ago , my drawing , painting , and knowledge of other media and techniques have greatly improved . |
| 23 | As I contemplated using this or that , it struck me that the common denominator between many of them was not a subject but a colour combination — blue and white — often highlighted by a punch of yellow . |
| 24 | And I was trying to grasp , in terms of this distinction , the significance of Philonous 's insistence , in Berkeley 's dialogue , that material things are ‘ senseless beings ’ , It struck me that Berkeley 's argument must really be as follows : |
| 25 | And it struck me that it 's those who believe in cock-ups who are ready to believe anything . |
| 26 | It struck me that this place must be fairly normal as lodging houses go , for on the whole the lodgers did not complain . |
| 27 | When I came to think about it , it struck me that almost all the aspects of my eidesis that The Fat Controller played upon had preceded his intervention , rather than followed from it . |
| 28 | And there it was , it struck me that I had nothing to lose , I was damned either way . |
| 29 | As he spoke it struck me that Cedric would be likely to appeal to him because he was very like the boxer himself ; not over-burdened with brains , built like an ox with powerful shoulders and a big constantly-grinning face — they were two of a kind . |
| 30 | Sitting on the bus , still with my cap on my lap to avoid attracting attention , it struck me that the whole world changed within a mile or two as we left the town . |