Example sentences of "what [adv] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it sounds ridiculous saying it now , but what eventually made me decide to move was when John Mayall brought horns into the BB line-up ; I was so dumb that I thought , ‘ If it 's horns , it 's not blues . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ What eventually swayed me was the fact that Hibs were a big club with a greater potential support , although at that point I probably had a better squad of players in Paisley . |
| 3 | But what most angered me was the last-minute timing of the intervention . |
| 4 | What especially pleases me is that we are extraordinarily popular and that Wolfgang is admired here even more than he has been in all the other towns of Italy ; the reason is that Bologna is the centre and dwelling-place of many masters , artists and scholars . |
| 5 | Braque , on the other hand , is quoted as saying , ‘ what especially attracted me — and what was the main preoccupation of Cubism — was the materialization of that new space which I sensed . ’ |
| 6 | What finally convinced me that it was a real physical process was that the outgoing particles have a spectrum that is precisely thermal ; the black hole creates and emits particles just as if it were an ordinary hot body with a temperature that is proportional to the surface gravity and inversely proportional to the mass . |
| 7 | But what finally convinced me that the emission was real was that the spectrum of the emitted particles was exactly that which would be emitted by a hot body , and that the black hole was emitting particles at exactly the correct rate to prevent violations of the second law . |
| 8 | What always annoys me is the display of sweets at the check-out right where the children can grab them . ’ |
| 9 | What always amazes me when we play scrabble I mean , things that I consider to be slang you know , on the odd time I thought well I 'll try that |
| 10 | Musically , what originally attracted me to dance was its shamanist aspects , using natural magic to change people 's neurological states and to psychologically empower them . |
| 11 | Now , while I 'm quite happy to take the credit for Birdman I 'm not sure that Ron Fawcett feels the same way , but what really bugs me is Zero . |
| 12 | I said what really bugs me is when I 'm driving and you come from behind somebody and then somebody overtakes you and . |
| 13 | Of course ’ — he offered me his ingenuous grin — ‘ what really keeps me fit is all that prime USDA beef . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What really attracted me to this hat was its shape — it reminded me of the ones American tourists wear . ’ |
| 15 | What really attracted me to the whole idea was that June said : ‘ Personally I think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread . ’ |
| 16 | What really concerned me was how to finance a tunnel project of any kind . |
| 17 | Literature 's OK , but what really grabs me is scuttling , right ? |
| 18 | But during the whole thing David never stuck up for us — that 's what really got me . |
| 19 | Ken said , ‘ Yeah , I remember that too , but what really got me going was the bit at the end : |
| 20 | What REALLY pissed me off though was Girly Perm Keegan saying he could understand Leeds selling Le Turd because ‘ he had too much class for them to handle ’ . |
| 21 | What really amazed me was the way the hawk seemed to know out of which hole the rabbit was going to pop even before its ears appeared . |
| 22 | That 's what really put me off . |
| 23 | What really annoys me is what happens whenever the magic words ‘ million ’ or ‘ billion ’ are uttered . |
| 24 | ‘ But what really annoys me is when I 'm stuck in a traffic jam , and ca n't let my childminder know I 'm going to be late . ’ |
| 25 | What really annoys me . |
| 26 | What really impresses me about players is having a unique sound , whether it 's fast or slow . |
| 27 | And what really bothers me is when people say they ca n't do anything about it . |
| 28 | But the target of Mrs Thatcher 's wrath was equally well known when the day after the budget in a public speech she said : ‘ Now what really gets me is … that those who are most critical of the extra taxes are those who were most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure . ’ |
| 29 | What really struck me was that I looked like a concentration camp prisoner . |
| 30 | WHAT really angered me about the rudeness of Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating was the fact that everyone in Australia celebrates a holiday for our Queen 's birthday yet we never have . |