Example sentences of "make i [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There were times when Joanna 's somewhat footslogging performance made me long for the thoroughbred feel of Lisa , but I had an affection for Joanna and she had one advantage over Lisa — her small cuddy where I could cook and sleep , and be independent of the land .
2 I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week .
3 They made me feel like a dirty slag and serve me right for getting pregnant .
4 SHE MADE ME FEEL LIKE A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT .
5 It made me feel like an old sock !
6 They made me go through the whole thing three times , though I had hardly anything to tell them .
7 When it was over , she walked across to the television , switched it off , turned to look at Charlotte and said : ‘ They made me sound like an unfeeling bitch . ’
8 Tommaso made me look like a mature man , an important man .
9 Soho , meanwhile , enthuse and make me feel like a miserable old fart .
10 You make me sound like a Victorian governess ! ’
11 Then I heard the footsteps … coming up fast= an echoing , slapping sound making me think of a great bird or bat flapping up from the bottom of a wall …
12 Again I wondered at Edward 's way of making me feel like the useless son out of a folk-tale who had stumbled by chance into the hollow hills .
13 " Well , why the bloody Hell did n't you say so out there when we was with them instead of making me look like a bloody fool ? "
14 Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way .
15 You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better .
16 It makes me long for a complete collection so that I might read on , especially the verse you mention but do not quote .
17 For he sometimes makes me sleep on the wrong side of my own bed .
18 It makes me cringe into the smelly upholstery of his battered armchair .
19 Er with reference to the great pestilence er makes me think of the original great pestilence , the Black Death and of course er contaminated individuals be put in a pest house far away from places of habitation but they can contaminate others which one ca n't help thinking that it would be quite a good policy has commissioned .
20 His sprawl makes me seem like a silent , precise insect .
21 As for yours truly , yes , there is someone who I met quite recently , who probably needs me no more than I need her , someone who brings out my poetic streak , and makes me believe in the little people . ’
22 God that makes me look like a good player that , does n't it ?
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