Example sentences of "[vb past] to make me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to get a £1,000 overdraft from my bank , but they tried to make me take out a lot of loans . |
| 2 | As he gripped me and tried to make me touch him , I remember screaming inside , ‘ Why do n't you stop ? |
| 3 | WHEN Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United as the new boss he wanted me out of Old Trafford so badly he tried to make me redundant . |
| 4 | The big boys tried to make me feel at home by taking me to the greasy spoon for a pie but what did I care for food as the table rang with drug quips and acerbic one-liners about Danielle Dax from Gavin Martin , James Brown and Danny Kelly . |
| 5 | I had a teacher for all of three months tried to make me write with my right hand . |
| 6 | Yet when I first came , you tried to make me think your position here was untenable . |
| 7 | But those who argued with me did not share this opinion , and tried to make me conform to their pattern . |
| 8 | This frightened me but seemed to make me a hero in the eyes of the Dutch who broke out into a fever of winks and jerked-up thumbs and V-signs all round me . |
| 9 | In my own relatively trivial example what struck me forcefully was the assumption that being born in Canada seemed to make me more ‘ one of us ’ in the Immigration Officer 's eyes than ‘ one of them ’ , despite the fact that , within terms of the European Community , being Irish should make me far more of an insider . |
| 10 | Alas , I was only just beginning to be visually aware , but to the extent to which I have grown in such awareness over the years I believe it was Basil and Ruth who started to make me look and see . |
| 11 | But it started to make me feel scared that it was something I was going to have to bring up for the rest of my life . |
| 12 | Too sniffy and cursory for today 's friendly Banff with its many tractors and willing hospitality : the hotel being closed , the lady behind the counter in the newsagents offered to make me Dr Johnson 's pleasure , a cup of tea . |
| 13 | In a letter to a newspaper one man commented that he was taking his six-year-old daughter to her school sports day when she asked , ‘ Daddy , can I have some of the drugs that Ben Johnson took to make me run fast ? ’ |
| 14 | Me , a stump of a man and they wanted to make me Cesar Romero . |
| 15 | They decided they wanted to make me look unusual , to make me look ‘ spacey ’ , and so they cut it all off . ’ |
| 16 | I have to say , if he wanted to make me mad , he was one hundred per cent successful . |