Example sentences of "[noun] that makes me " in BNC.

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1 Brittain is always up with the lark and it was a nice piece of work that Needle Gun did under Roberts on the Side Hill woodchip gallops early on Tuesday that makes me select him for the Laburnum Stakes .
2 I 'm about to sign a new contract that makes me virtually a Santa Barbara resident , and we locals do n't mix with you tourists ! ’
3 The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince .
4 It 's simply the tiredness that makes me so unresponsive on many occasions . ’
5 It 's not the money that makes me happy .
6 I have a folding mac that makes me look like a haystack in the rain , I have an umbrella that would fit most of Dublin under it . ’
7 Ian is OK — friendly and cheerful — but there 's something about Robert that makes me want to fight him all the time . ’
8 Sometimes I will have abandoned a painting , got really tired of it and feel it 's not getting anywhere , and you will come and make some remark that makes me look at it again and think : oh yes , I could just pull that one together .
9 So I hope it is n't just sentimentality that makes me baulk at his drastic solution .
10 And then they want you , I tell you what there 's another thing on television that makes me really laugh is that advert about electricity and it says
11 God that makes me look like a good player that , does n't it ?
12 All the time you ought to be asking yourself : " why should anyone believe what I am writing ? " and " what have I noticed in the text or in background , contextual materials that makes me think this ? "
13 He said ‘ You do n't look well , ’ to her once , meaning to be sympathetic , but she clouted him and said , ‘ It is living with an old man that makes me not well .
14 It 's the only thing that makes me proud about that country .
15 The thing that makes me believe in God is that there 's a special kind of weather on Sundays .
16 It 's another thing that makes me wonder if the crazed geniuses who developed the first Intelloids were n't perpetrating some subtly painful joke on the human race .
17 The only thing that makes me doubt that is that the general proposition underlying it appears to have received some incoherent support from the Leader of the Opposition .
18 The extra bonus — the thing that makes me truly lucky — is that I can go home to the real friends and neighbours whose tales of burst drain-pipes , complicated recipes and domestic dramas sound every bit as interesting to me when I lack the leisure to enjoy them myself .
19 and that , that , that 's the thing that makes me retch , not the cutting , it 's when they just pull it apart
20 the thing is , the thing that makes me
21 And that , tha , that 's the thing that makes me red , it 's not the cutting it 's when they just pull it apart and it like
22 ‘ She has been the target of such spite that it disgraces those who offer it , and she bears it with a dignity that makes me proud , ’ he said as Mrs Kinnock stood behind him , smiling but with tears in her eyes .
23 To try and do what makes me happy , dress in a way that makes me happy .
24 ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later .
25 ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later .
26 ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later .
27 ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later .
28 or intent that makes me pause , turn back ;
29 I may have the idea that makes me start putting the brush strokes down , but at some point the canvas will take on a life of its own and lead me off in a direction I never expected to go .
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