Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] make me " in BNC.

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1 I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath .
2 ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’
3 Brittain is always up with the lark and it was a nice piece of work that Needle Gun did under Roberts on the Side Hill woodchip gallops early on Tuesday that makes me select him for the Laburnum Stakes .
4 That was the obsession that made me write this . ’
5 Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’
6 It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one .
7 Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’
8 But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound .
9 It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister .
10 He 's honest to a fault and makes me feel I 'm greatly loved .
11 I 'm about to sign a new contract that makes me virtually a Santa Barbara resident , and we locals do n't mix with you tourists ! ’
12 The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince .
13 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 .
14 Two years ago , I went on holiday to the States and witnessed scenes in clubs that made me realize women were n't as inhibited as I 'd thought .
15 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 .
16 ‘ I came down from Manchester two days ago , to meet my fellow archdeacons , and the Bishop told me of your husband 's application and of course that made me wish to meet him , and to meet you .
17 It 's simply the tiredness that makes me so unresponsive on many occasions . ’
18 It 's not the money that makes me happy .
19 Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that .
20 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 . ’
21 Cos it was in with the electric bills , and I did n't want that , and that was one of the advantages that made me decide to have here , cos I knew that the heating was in with the rent .
22 Alec wore a navy-blue romper suit — the outfit of a French workman , or indeed that of some little new-wave narcissist at a C. L. & S. screening It was the sight of him in his issued clothing that made me sense just how far he had fallen .
23 Every time they came forward , you expected something to happen ( perhaps It was sitting in the north bank with the Cockney scum that made me think this ! ! ) .
24 For my good lady loved singing and dancing and made me learn both .
25 Soho , meanwhile , enthuse and make me feel like a miserable old fart .
26 The whole meal takes almost an hour and makes me ravenous .
27 ‘ This breaks my heart and makes me very , very angry . ’
28 The Royal Geographical Society approved my plans and made me a grant , as did the Percy Sladen Trust of the Linnean Society .
29 He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor .
30 ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’
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