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Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb -s] me " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ The beastly old woman has told me , quite bluntly , that she considers me very much an ex -wife .
2	He spoke already in terms of collaboration — ‘ I sent you a few studies because you can see from them that she helps me a great deal by posing .
3	If , however , your answer is specific ( e.g. ‘ She has a temper tantrum when I insist that she obeys me , for example when I tell her to eat up her breakfast ’ ) then an effective procedure can be worked out .
4	‘ I do n't know why I 'm so bloody to her , ’ Marriage grumbled , ‘ except that she tolerates me .
5	And it is not that she knows me to be bad or weak , or you either , but her conventional mind could not grasp that a thing so often impure , can be made absolutely and perfectly pure .
6	‘ Methinks I should contrive to send her a message , suggesting that she pays me another visit . ’
7	‘ The truth is that she envies me , ’ she went on more calmly .
8	all the same , that she wants me at home , though she does n't like me , and she could never admit that she might need me … "
9	But whatever the case , and despite the fact that she bores me to stupefaction , I ca n't be unkind to her . ’
10	‘ Did Cheryl really say that she loves me ? ’
11	Poor child , it 's terrible that she loves me so much . ’
12	‘ It says in the Daily Mirror that she fancies me , ’ he boasts lightheartedly .
13	Observing Irina in her advancing years , it is only occasionally that she reminds me of my mother or Aunt Anna — a look , a gesture , a sudden exclamation .
14	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 .
15	‘ But that does n't mean that it suits me , Aunt Louise .
16	He wrote : ‘ And also that it sustains me , in ways that I ca n't explain .
17	Not that it bothers me .
18	I just feel that it tells me nothing about them . ’
19	For God 's sake , what is it I have got from him , that it sets me so high ?
20	The huge advantage of fame is that it gives me , for no proper reason , access to people that I would never otherwise have .
21	I 've told you that it gives me a terrific edge in any sale where Kemp 's a bidder .
22	The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent .
23	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 .
24	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 .
25	Er as I said on , on Thursday night , that it saddens me about , that I 'm also an ex-patient of .
26	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 .
27	Frankly , the general tone of your question is so selfish that it makes me a bit dubious about the prospects of your marriage .
28	He said : ‘ When we play like that it makes me wonder why we are in the wrong half of the table .
29	I do not romanticise agony as a virtue , nor imagine that it makes me superior .
30	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 .