Example sentences of "[verb] [vb -s] me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have discovered for example that the acute stress of being interviewed makes me sweat a lot , an afternoon of difficult telephone calls leaves me with lower back pain , while the run-down-at-the-end-of-a-long-hard-term kind of stress makes me irritable and forgetful . |
| 2 | Its the attitude cracks me up , oh , every thing he 's ever done makes me laugh |
| 3 | I am aware that much of what I am saying makes me sound like some ageing Pollyanna who just wants to pretend that all is sweetness and light . |
| 4 | But what we 've just been saying makes me ask if even that is going too far . |
| 5 | Re-baiting with a new crust I cast towards the branches , but my subconscious fear of snagging makes me cast a couple of feet short , but I decide to leave it and see what happens . |
| 6 | ‘ All this hustle and bustle makes me feel exhilarated ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You look to be nineteen or twenty , but sometimes the way you talk makes me think you 're older . ’ |
| 8 | Such developments keep Johnson and Boswell at a further remove , although on the wall of the castle hangs a framed letter in which Johnson , with his attractive spidery writing , gives thanks to his host : ‘ The kind treatment which I have found wherever I go makes me leave with some heaviness of heart an island I am not likely to see again … |
| 9 | ‘ I think you manage remarkably well , ’ Helen said , ‘ and the fact that you do makes me wonder if I could hold my party after all . |