Example sentences of "[verb] me [adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That disturbing thought made me even more glad to have dressed soberly and inconspicuously . |
| 2 | ‘ I missed out on the Olympics , but that made me even more determined to join the paid ranks . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I now knew he was handicapped but that made me even more determined to keep him . ’ |
| 4 | It made me even more determined to keep alive the memory of both Dawn and my wife . |
| 5 | Here am I , working for a glamorous journalist in a huge house in Richmond , looking after her brat of a daughter ( four-year-old Charlotte , who has her good moments but is mostly involved in a longstanding game of wear-the-au-pair-to-a-frazzle ) , when my mother needs me just as much to look after her daughter , but does n't have a big house and ca n't afford to pay . |
| 6 | So if I go twice as fast , does that mean it 's gon na take me twice as long to get there ? |
| 7 | Of course , there are times when it 's frustrating — it can take me twice as long to find anything , for example . |
| 8 | The only effect of these humiliations and challenges was to make me even more determined to overcome Karen 's scruples . |