Example sentences of "that it [vb -s] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you 'll never have the strength to send me away — you 're so weak , Bob , that it embarrasses me — and in the end the job will fall to me ; I shall have to send myself away . |
| 2 | ‘ But that does n't mean that it suits me , Aunt Louise . |
| 3 | He wrote : ‘ And also that it sustains me , in ways that I ca n't explain . |
| 4 | Not that it bothers me . |
| 5 | I just feel that it tells me nothing about them . ’ |
| 6 | For God 's sake , what is it I have got from him , that it sets me so high ? |
| 7 | The huge advantage of fame is that it gives me , for no proper reason , access to people that I would never otherwise have . |
| 8 | I 've told you that it gives me a terrific edge in any sale where Kemp 's a bidder . |
| 9 | The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent . |
| 10 | can I say that it gives me particular pleasure to introduce Steven not least , because Steven Hughes is one of our colleagues in parliament who does a fantastic job for the trade union movement . |
| 11 | Yeah , I , I 'm suggesting that the facilities management contract , be referred to the budget review sub-committee for consideration , and in that way we can actually consider it , and obviously if the report is not yet prepared , erm , perhaps we can put some input into it , I have to say , that it disturbs me to be given an answer , that do n't worry everybody , there 's a report coming , and then we suddenly say well , we might like to look at it in three weeks time , we 're told actually it 's not written yet . |
| 12 | Er as I said on , on Thursday night , that it saddens me about , that I 'm also an ex-patient of . |
| 13 | The matches are made of a wood so flimsy that it reminds me of the balsa with which I tried , unsuccessfully , to build model aeroplanes . |
| 14 | Frankly , the general tone of your question is so selfish that it makes me a bit dubious about the prospects of your marriage . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ When we play like that it makes me wonder why we are in the wrong half of the table . |
| 16 | I do not romanticise agony as a virtue , nor imagine that it makes me superior . |
| 17 | The magazine folded and we all got drunk on Bulgarian wine and I made a speech about going out to penetrate the government and cut the arteries of the police state right at its heart — you need Bulgarian wine to say things like that it makes me faint to think of it now . |