Example sentences of "[noun sg] to make me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely if I know all this I should be able to put on just enough weight to make me feel comfortable , or at least stop losing any more ? |
| 2 | I pray for a wood-spirit to make me dance , |
| 3 | Was this a deliberate campaign to make me feel small ? |
| 4 | It is alleged that I am unpunctual sometimes , so certain members of the party arranged with the driver and the guard to make me run for the train . |
| 5 | All might still have been well , if he had n't , in a desire to make me happier stood away from me and said , " You look lovely . " |
| 6 | The Typical Chinese Dishes with plenty of good hot coffee on top of them seemed to combine with the heating in the place to make me sleepy . |
| 7 | The nurses turned me on my side and the doctor put a needle into a vein behind my knuckle to make me relax . |
| 8 | ‘ Sir , you 've been talking nonsense to make me talk nonsense . |
| 9 | The best I can hope for is to be dragged home and given stuff to make me manageable . |
| 10 | ‘ Before you say we 're not lovers , Claudia , remember that many things are possible in this world , though it will take a miracle to make me forget whose lover you really are . ’ |
| 11 | Why did you take such trouble to make me believe you wished to marry Miss Ingram ? ’ |
| 12 | On a good day , it only takes a glimpse of blue sky or a tree in blossom to make me feel full of the joys of spring and in love with life . |
| 13 | The river bottom was ridged sand , a difficult and unkind footing , that combined with the cold and the rush to make me want to go fast while forcing me to go slow . |
| 14 | I had been aware , intellectually , that the background level of irradiation is really quite high ( as I write the clicking of a geiger counter left switched on in an adjacent room reminds me ) but it took the Phywe cloud chamber to make me realise that irradiation is not a separate thing but truly a part of life . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , you wo n't need me eating out of your hand to make me fast or efficient , ’ Luce said bleakly . |
| 16 | ‘ It takes a lot to make me angry . |
| 17 | ‘ It took a lot to make me miss our date the other night , Folly , ’ he whispered . |
| 18 | ‘ Not unpleasant , perhaps , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ but you have n't exactly gone out of your way to make me feel welcome — either here or back at the television studio . ’ |
| 19 | Turning up out of nowhere , catching me off guard like this , managing with the flick of an expression to make me feel inferior all over again ! |
| 20 | ‘ My dear Rose , ’ Theda said with a smile , ‘ you have so espoused Benedict 's cause that you imagine it is enough to tell me all his unfortunate history to make me realise what I already know . |
| 21 | They have the ability to make me feel guilty if I do n't write/'phone/visit at regular intervals . |
| 22 | Haldane , according to Drummond , had assured him that he might ‘ depend on all his interest in order to make me happy in every opportunity , in the event on my giveing him my vote & intrest ’ . |
| 23 | On the one hand , I want fatherhood to make me a better person because I believe that , once I have the responsibility of looking after a child , giving up smoking and drinking and spending money on the motorbike will be a doddle . |
| 24 | One Christmas , Mother managed to find the time to make me a dolly , but only because I pestered . |
| 25 | Even though I knew I would soon lose him , he had such power to make me happy that I was in heaven listening to him . |
| 26 | Colonel Richardson 's pain is only the first pain to make me feel dreadful ( why , oh why , do women take to guilt like ducks to water ? ) and most people wo n't be as nice as he was . |
| 27 | When we were naughty he 'd give Fred the strap but he 'd sit me on the mantelpiece to make me mind my manners . |