Example sentences of "to make [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't you remember , she used to make me wear them in my shoes to go to school when it was raining ? |
| 2 | But you do your best to make me stop caring . |
| 3 | Or was it all a pack of lies to make me give in ? |
| 4 | ‘ Has he told you to make me hire help ? |
| 5 | It 's despicable to make me admit it . |
| 6 | My father was a sergeant in the Army and both parents did their best to try to make me go to school . |
| 7 | Almost , but not quite , enough to make me go and buy a set of reproduction Book-of-Hours Christmas cards from a small-format ‘ gift ’ catalogue … . |
| 8 | Lucenzo , are you doing this to make me go home ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 're trying to make me go , are n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | Without warning she reached her hand sideways and took mine and pressed it , as if to give me courage ; and perhaps to make me identify her with the original , gentle Lily . |
| 11 | I pleaded with her not to make me do as she asked … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Crueller to make me do what you want , ’ she said in an unnaturally high voice . |
| 13 | ‘ If you think you 're going to make me treat Sarella in the same sort of way you 're mistaken . |
| 14 | Last week , the hon. Gentleman was trying to be a lawyer and attempting to make me read out on the floor of the House a document that he wanted me to table . |
| 15 | I pray for a wood-spirit to make me dance , |
| 16 | He smiled too , and stabbed me in the gut with the gun-barrel hard enough to make me suck in my breath . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ But Mr Carson said ‘ Are you going to make me sit down ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Sir , you 've been talking nonsense to make me talk nonsense . |
| 21 | Damian Flint does everything he possibly can to make me blow twenty-five fuses at once ! |
| 22 | It is not enough to make me forget that the owl remains elsewhere . |
| 23 | Though you 're doing your best to make me forget it ! |
| 24 | Ashamed of having frightened me , he looked at me sweetly and began to sing Italian songs to make me forget the incident ’ . |
| 25 | This was enough to make me forget the abstract art of 1912–13 ! ’ |
| 26 | Thoughts of gangrene and amputations terrified me until , after seventeen miles , I reached camp , where Mick was waiting to make me forget myself . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You once seemed to think that you were reasonably proficient ; enough , anyway , to make me forget Ryan . |
| 29 | You think Ryan is proficient enough to make me forget you ? ’ |
| 30 | Being reasonably wealthy and not a total antidote to the opposite sex , ’ he said with a wry grin , ‘ I knew there were plenty of women to make me forget . |