Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | That bit made me think even then . |
| 2 | I do n't frighten easy , but that geezer frightened me . |
| 3 | That 's all that Christian offered me when I went up there to lay out that poor young wife of his . |
| 4 | That bike took me all over the place . |
| 5 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 6 | That episode made me quickly learn how to repair a puncture and from that time on I always carried a repair outfit . |
| 7 | I think the shock of that recognition drove me a little crazy myself . |
| 8 | Would you believe that the sight of her in that condition made me feel differently about her ? |
| 9 | It was that angel put me right . |
| 10 | ‘ That boy scratched me deeply . ’ |
| 11 | A boy came out and looked at me , a bit suspicious , and I felt a fool , but that boy took me back thirty years . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was n't that loneliness chose me , but that I chose it , proudly wrapping myself in it , like a cloak against the pollution of the world . |
| 13 | I 'll admit that hearing about that sermon gave me a cowardly frisson of fear . |
| 14 | ‘ I was employed , sir , ’ said the captain , ‘ on secret orders , and to sail this ship where that gentleman ordered me to sail it . |
| 15 | That bicycle gave me so much joy for many years . |
| 16 | That knowledge made me feel good . |
| 17 | Hints that merry muses were at work on Woman 's Hour that day made me re-tune the tranny to FM to catch the results . |
| 18 | One of the stories , maybe , that Maman told me when I was small . |
| 19 | That offer gave me a lifeline . |
| 20 | My life lay away from them now , and the problems I had brought to work with me that morning reclaimed me with redoubled urgency . |
| 21 | Half an hour after that was taken , that cheetah bit me through the calf … |
| 22 | ‘ Chris , I really did n't know who to turn to ; and that voice made me shiver . |
| 23 | ‘ Actually , that voice reminded me of a certain warrior queen , so tell me — who the hell was it ? ’ |
| 24 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 25 | That thought prompted me to ask Posi for a routine sweep for bugs . |
| 26 | That union supported me as I recruited the whole of the workforce and er , I was then sacked after four weeks ! |
| 27 | I 've always been doing what this man told me or that man told me ; now I 'm doing things for myself . |
| 28 | That — that man had me fired from that very first job , the one you organised for me back in South Africa when I left school ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Well , the four that agency sent me did . |
| 30 | In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on . |