Example sentences of "[Wh det] makes i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And yet , wrote Harsnet , it is this which excites me , this which makes me want to go on .
2 There is an inexplicable rightness about it which makes me want to look at it for ages .
3 Kirishima is nothing like Dana , but he has that male charisma which makes me want to lie in his arms — I feel safer just gloating over his superb body on the television screen .
4 Perhaps it is this point of political reassessment ; perhaps it is because I am mid-way through my life — the time when the past stretches widespread enough to contemplate , and the future is no longer infinite — which makes me want to catch memories .
5 Or perhaps it is all that rain which makes me want more water .
6 The Mermaid is frequented by the local fishermen for breakfasts and lunches , which makes me think its fish must be the freshest .
7 I find that I 'm questioning my own authority , which makes me think even more .
8 ‘ There 's something about its jizz which makes me think it 's a … ’ is a very handy phrase when only a brief glimpse of the bird has been caught .
9 It was built before the war , and I have a Shanks loo , which makes me think that the British must have had a hand in building it .
10 They think my Yorkshire accent is amusing , and Nicola , my boss , tells friends that I 'm ‘ from the country ’ , which makes me feel as if I 'm from another planet .
11 And I think this has been proved you know that ask when people have changed their minds and said I do n't know , that this is what has happened in the last er ten to fifteen years erm and which makes me feel that once again I think that advances can only be evolutionary erm I think that erm , I do n't know if you , anybody saw Joseph Conrad 's erm spy story on the television ?
12 It always strikes me when you see meths drinkers and imagine those people as children — they were all beautiful then , and it is simply an inexplicable phenomenon which makes me sit here and that other person is out there on the street .
13 ‘ It is not very much , ’ concedes Anna Perry , ‘ which makes me wonder why so many of these porters had been with us for so long .
14 Again it 's Bass , Mid and Treble and each pot has a recommended start setting of 12 o'clock to allow for cut or boost , which makes me wonder why these controls are labelled 0 to 10 — would n't -5 to +5 have been more sensible ?
15 which makes me wonder what it was
16 All of which makes me wonder how well this very American , sugar-pie world will translate to Europe .
17 It is no doubt the remembrance of these early days which makes me despise and dislike all primeurs , the fruit artificially grown , gathered too early and expensively sent , wrapped in cotton wool , to " smart " restaurants .
18 Well I 'll be wearing a distressed leather jacket , black jeans , a new short haircut which makes me look really hard and a large stomach .
19 I have had a Chinese hair-cut which makes me look slightly less like a fierce western barbarian to Chinese eyes , but I have kept my beard .
20 It is the waiting and his strange behaviour , she thought , which makes me shiver .
21 what makes me drag my toddler round
22 What makes me laugh wo n't necessarily make you laugh .
23 this the , what makes me laugh is that people 's intelligence , they walk along a street shopping and as soon as they walk into a restaurant they sit down and start smoking
24 Yeah what makes me laugh they come with the blue lights flashing do n't they !
25 What makes me laugh that the Labour party always say oh interest rates in , sorry the tax rates in this
26 but what makes me laugh is doctor he 's , I think he 's absolutely cracked
27 That 's what makes me think that the man may have been a foreigner perhaps even killed on the other side of the channel . "
28 And she 's kept trying and that 's what makes me think she 's got
29 But that just makes me think why , that 's what makes me think she 's living .
30 What makes me shudder .
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