Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [adv] make [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Because when you raised the telephone … he showed great irritation and pretended not to hear you , so that it immediately made you think that you 'd been unwise to telephone at all .
2 No , I missed him so much , that it really made me appreciate , you know .
3 Once he even made me hand over all the money beforehand , so that it would look as if he was paying for everyone himself .
4 If you only make one claim in any period of insurance any no claim bonus which you have earned may be reduced at your next renewal , as follows :
5 If you only make one claim in any period of insurance any no claim bonus which you have earned may be reduced at your next renewal , as follows :
6 If you only make one claim in any period of insurance any no claim bonus which you have earned may be reduced at your next renewal , as follows :
7 If you only make one claim in any period of insurance any no claim bonus which you have earned may be reduced at your next renewal , as follows :
8 ‘ Charmer Nigel is A Real Rotter ! ’ — and they still make him wince .
9 Because he was wrong and he just made me feel really crap .
10 ‘ Keith felt very , very sorry for David and he always made me feel that I was a real bastard .
11 But he says exactly what he thinks , and he always makes me think .
12 And it just made me realize how fragile life is and how God has got his hand on you and erm how he protected me from erm being killed in that plane crash because it could easily have been my plane
13 and it certainly makes you feel more favourably towards Rochester does n't it ?
14 The way the parapet wall , which screens the attics , sweeps down in a bold curve is exceptionally pretty , and it really makes you want to stop and stare at the house as you glimpse it through trees and across the river meadow from the Dorchester to Godmanstone road .
15 As Derek came close to him , Jack could smell fry-up on his breath and it suddenly made him feel sick again .
16 Now , obviously , you know , yo getting the menopause out into the open so that everyone can talk about it , exchange information that that it 's not seen as a as a taboo or something to be particularly fearful of by men or women is n't going to be much good if it just makes everybody worry for er , for for the first half of o o o of their lives and , and then gibber through the second half !
17 The DHSS made me go to see them every day — I had a broken bone in my ankle but they still made me go every day !
18 ‘ I never know what to make of them , but they certainly make you think about the future of the human race . ’
19 I denied homosexual inclinations but he still made me bend down so that he could inspect my behind with a wooden spatula .
20 I 've asked him to let me go straight out and breathe the cellar air , but he always makes me wait till I 've had breakfast .
21 This continual effort to expound a programme gave the Rassemblement somewhat greater legitimacy as a democratic movement , but it also made it seem very much a party like all the others .
22 But it also makes me want to work harder , ’ Navratilova said .
23 But it only made her smile .
24 If I can wave to that group of kids and they go home and talk about it , fantastic , or if I can just sign a measly bit of paper for a kid and he 's so stunned he ca n't talk , that really brings home to me what I am doing it for : because it really makes me feel good . ’
25 ‘ I 'd like to stick with old records , though , and have ‘ Charlie Brown ’ by The Coasters on my makeshift but serviceable raft , because it always makes me laugh , and I love the saxophone solo .
26 While he subsequently made it appear like a carefully premeditated act of cunning , being sacked from EMI and A&M was , in fact , a disaster .
27 If the examples cited by Hildyard and Olson of oral language being ‘ autonomous ’ and of written language being ‘ context-based ’ were the rare exceptions that the reference to letter writing and to lectures suggests them to be , then their conjectures about literacy would have some credence , though the argument could not be as absolute as they sometimes make it appear .
28 and when he just makes himself flop , he would n't stand up .
29 For he sometimes makes me sleep on the wrong side of my own bed .
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