Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] make i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His use of the English language made me respect him . |
| 2 | The old lady made me jump when she told me not to stare but to sit down and not be nervous . |
| 3 | The bad news is that the good news made me feel so relieved and excited that I ran out to a bar and drank a bunch of big ones . |
| 4 | Colonel Richardson 's pain is only the first pain to make me feel dreadful ( why , oh why , do women take to guilt like ducks to water ? ) and most people wo n't be as nice as he was . |
| 5 | At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school . |
| 6 | As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences . |
| 7 | ‘ Flaming June ’ , people muttered bitterly amid the cascades of rain , and the thought of the poor men who must be waiting to set out across the choppy Channel in their small boats to fight a bloody battle on the other side made me feel cold and sick . |
| 8 | And when the babies were both a ripe four-plus , and she did indeed go off to Peking and left them with me , the ensuing fun made me wonder sometimes whether I was their father , which is no question to put , since the answer should be proffered , I suppose . |