Example sentences of "that [adv] [verb] me " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Even though it was the rise of Nazism that eventually prompted me to write A Child of Our , the scapegoats of the North of England and especially the effect on the children remained very much in my mind . ’
2 Of course I am not advocating a return to the kind of education that so wounded me as a child .
3 So erm and the other thing was the erm the maternity bill er what is the other one that so interests me that , I 've got my two favourites , erm and that is the cervical , the cancer smear test .
4 There are fewer elephants about up here erm and er the issue that obviously concerns me from the development point of view is the is the time scale , is the process rather , that that the planning policy would im would imply .
5 ‘ Unemployment is something that personally concerns me because I have been at the edge of unemployment all my life , ’ added the 42-year-old who speaks highly of the quality of the environment on Teesside , a much richer and more vibrant and pleasant place in which to live than he had imagined .
6 Because I 'd passed the magical sixty years of age mark , I was now officially an old-age pensioner and that apparently made me technically ‘ vulnerable ’ under the provisions of the Homeless Persons Act .
7 So erm , I think when she said she did n't know , er , she was telling the truth , and when asked her if she could explain to me , the very point that just asked me , again she said she , she could n't explain , she had , she she 'd agreed , agreed it was a paradox , that she did n't really know erm , why the book had never been published , or until nineteen sixty seven erm note , note that it , that it had been taken .
8 ‘ She was very sure of herself , a bit cocky and she had a coldness that just put me off her . ’
9 But if we 've had a really serious news bulletin that just makes me feel more jolly .
10 ‘ Well , the housemaid said something to me before I came in to prayers , and that just tickled me and I could n't help it . ’
11 Ah , it ju , although , I mean , just when you said that just reminded me that time Hannah !
12 When I visited the sites of three major Civil War battles ( Edgehill , Marston Moor and Naseby ) I encountered a number of obstacles that soon forced me to rethink where and how the additions to my collection would be made .
13 It was the violent jolting of our wheels on the sleepers that finally woke me to the realisation that Ward had switched from the road to the railway line itself and was bumping his way along the track towards the gaping mouth of a tunnel .
14 Yet it was the submission of two ‘ humorous ’ scripts in ‘ The Raconteur ’ series that finally won me a job with the C.B.C .
15 Each moment that once brought me
16 Said Ian : ‘ Tranmere Rovers were the last team that ever paid me to play .
17 If Bob 's taking ‘ Zen Arcade ’ then I wo n't need that , but I might need a shot of ‘ Metal Circus ’ — that 's the one that always got me charged up … ’
18 But the thing that always concerns me about these kind of decisions under those kind of circumstances is that it might be a temporary depression : in other words a suicide wish , and this is a terrifically difficult issue that is bantered about a lot under these kind of circumstances , and normally , if someone says ‘ Kill me , ’ you figure they 're crazy .
19 Another type of pattern that always makes me think carefully about how I 'm going to position it is one with a vertical element and which is asymmetrical for example pattern 4–29 ( Fig 6 ) .
20 One of the things that always puzzles me about archives is it seems to me that there must be a limited number of archives , and there are an awful number of historians .
21 One of the things that always intrigued me , and still does , concerned his Oxford tailor who seemed to think that the practice of having the brevet just above the left breast pocket on the tunic should he reviewed .
22 In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates .
23 It 's something that still gives me nightmares . ’
24 For , if there was one aspect of the Fat Controller 's legacy that still troubled me severely it was the sex thing .
25 I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it .
26 ‘ And that automatically makes me a fully paid-up member of the jet-set ? ’
27 ‘ The people that probably helped me fail my geography , they 've left … well , they made a continual noise , stopped progress , you know .
28 One of the things that does , I 'm not being Chairman , just asking questions , but one of the things that slightly concerns me because I know that in his document the director has put about providing day care type facilities in rural areas and I remember at our last meeting , the last meeting at one , we discussed specifically and area , erm it does , does worry me a little whether the absence of any capital expenditure on our part means that we may be providing day care facilities in some areas but it 'll be of a very much lower quality or a lesser quality than we may be providing anywhere else in the areas like and and .
29 But I would much rather find Mason puzzling than feel , as I do only too often , that I know all too well what so many of his more consistently praised contemporaries are on about , in music that routinely tells me nothing I did n't know already , or would indeed prefer never to hear again .
30 Both these performances ( Brendel 's deeply personal , Zimerman 's of a regality and integrity that often reminded me of Lipatti ) resolve every novel or arresting idea into a far greater sense of continuity , overall grandeur and maturity .
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