Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [verb] me [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince .
2 There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking .
3 The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet .
4 Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that .
5 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 . ’
6 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 .
7 So I hope it is n't just sentimentality that makes me baulk at his drastic solution .
8 The audience were a comic 's dream and when Dennie came back on stage and whispered ‘ two minutes to count-down ’ I ran off to applause that made me feel like Mike Tyson .
9 This presented a thought that made me shudder with fright : this awesome , eerie world-apart in the dead of night , unbearably cold , no moon or stars , merely the moan of the mysterious gods beneath the ice …
10 The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam .
11 She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’
12 The thing that makes me believe in God is that there 's a special kind of weather on Sundays .
13 Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love .
14 I 'd swap my vest and plasters for a Marks and Spencer circle-stitched bra , a rigid , pointed contraption that made me look as if I had a couple of ice-cream cones up my jumper : I could never fill them to the end ( not even on a good day ) and the last waltz would result in dents in the ends .
15 She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace .
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