Example sentences of "something that [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no I mean as I say some of the content was was was very interesting and er the concept is er well it 's something that excites me . |
| 2 | Well you 've just you 've just er allow you 've just said something that allows me er to bring in er the way in which we approach advertising sales er Robert because er all of us who 've been in tra traditional sales , and I 'm I 'm just er that was my background as well er in addition to recruitment , er we are not used to giving everything over the phone before we go to see the people . |
| 3 | ‘ The teaching was just something that kept me alive ; I 'd tried to live off music before that , and failed . |
| 4 | And then he said something that struck me as rather strange : ‘ He 's made up his mind now . |
| 5 | Something that struck me personally at this period was that he had a most strange and cultivated sense of humour . |
| 6 | Then Lorne said something that made me half-identify Rimbo as French . |
| 7 | Longman had a very , very er , very good increase in profits and the Addison Wesley loss , which is bigger in the first half than usual er , is n't something that bothers me particularly , I 'm really quite relaxed about full year performance , but just to make sure they 're er , attacking erm , expenses , travel , administration , that kind but nothing in the erm , book investment programme . |
| 8 | So I signed , and then she said something that rocked me back on my heels . |
| 9 | The thought had barely come and gone , and I was in the act of reaching out to replace the whisky bottle , when a long burst of electric-blue light from the aperture showed me something that froze me in mid-reach . |
| 10 | The pain is not something that scares me . |
| 11 | I noticed , too , something that surprised me : an abundance of images of the sea . |
| 12 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 13 | something that puzzled me as I read it , er |
| 14 | ‘ Thought I ca n't say that redemption is something that preoccupies me greatly . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I think the players are used to lack of recognition , but it is something that puzzles me . |
| 16 | It was something that gave me a framework for my experience , and in some ways kind of saved my life really because it gave me words to see that I was n't isolated , that there was a movement — it was very real and it was very gut . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's something that interests me a lot . |
| 18 | Something that wants me to pay attention right now . |
| 19 | Something that wants me to pay attention right now . |
| 20 | Something that wants to change me … something that wants me to change it . |
| 21 | It 's not something that makes me anxious at all . |
| 22 | Emily Dickenson defined writing that works as ‘ something that makes me feel as though the top of my head is coming off ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I can not say why , precisely , but for hundreds , thousands — an infinite number of reasons — you fascinated me , and that fascination encouraged in me the desire to live , something that abandoned me on the death of my sister . |
| 24 | Foster , whose own career started at the tender age of 3 , discovered 9-year-old Adam in a New York classroom : ‘ It was him wanting to be something that drew me , ’ she says . |
| 25 | Whatever I use , whether it is a crystal ball , a pack of cards , or an article belonging to somebody , it is simply a stageprop ; something that gives me the right vibrations and helps me to see the right pictures . ’ |
| 26 | To be in charge of a Scotland team is something that gives me nothing but pride . ’ |