Example sentences of "[vb past] me [vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made me move in a hurry . |
| 2 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 3 | It made me forget for a moment how low sales figures so often are nowadays , as there are some exciting campaigns planned , some clever gimmicks , some expensive promotions and , more important , some wonderful books . |
| 4 | Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting , the ducks beautifully camouflaged , sitting tight as long as they could , then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag . |
| 5 | I asked if they would please call me Richard — Dick , I said , made me feel like a symbol of some kind . |
| 6 | What she said and how she said it made me feel like a child . |
| 7 | After a disastrous relationship in my early twenties in which the woman made me feel like a rapist , I gave up on the idea of sex and women . |
| 8 | Sheila , who said she put the cigarette out when told to , said : ‘ They made me feel like a criminal . |
| 9 | Although the neighbours made me feel like an evil , uncaring daughter , I knew in my heart that you 'd understand because you always did — I loved you and that was all you needed to know . |
| 10 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 11 | The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling . |
| 12 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Paul Oldfield topped the lot in Melody Maker when he wrote of the track ‘ Living And Learning ’ that it ‘ made me think of a man who favoured The Jasmine Minks and My Bloody Valentine , but whose bedroom was so damp that miraculous spores and mildew afflicted his brown suede and paisley . ’ |
| 15 | It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert . |
| 16 | It had two wings , one of which made me think of a church . |
| 17 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 18 | Too much space and too much light in this courtyard : it made me think of the difference between his face and mine . |
| 19 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 20 | It made me think of the Palace Hotel . |
| 21 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 22 | About three months before I finally , I was husband made me go to the doctor or go to the doctors for me and that 's when I realized it was depression I did n't know anything about it then . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , they made me go into the army . |
| 25 | Sometimes they cluster on a page like blackberries on a fecund bush , and made me wonder with a stab of unease whether my own writings on American politics and presidents have not managed equally often narrowly to miss the usage and the nomenclature . |
| 26 | The first drive I went on made me wonder about the sanity of grouse . |
| 27 | The intern cleaned me up then made me lie on a trolley in a curtained cubicle . |
| 28 | In one village , suddenly raided by the army at 2am , villagers made me lie on the ground and threw a blanket over me , telling the soldiers I was an old woman , too sick to move . |
| 29 | Some of the love passages made me cry to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals . |
| 30 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |