Example sentences of "[verb] i [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you make the same mistake , er , you have to buy another set , and I double the price for people who have heard me say do n't do this , er , and lie low , you know in the first three months , because I believe in penalising stupidity . |
| 2 | Anyone seeing me train knows that I revel in preparation and competition . |
| 3 | And then what really bugs those people is seeing me keep catching up with them . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll make me stop seeing my oldest friend , but you wo n't let your mistress go ! ’ |
| 5 | Do n't make me start counting the years up , please — it 'll ruin my whole day . ’ |
| 6 | Nothing can make me feel inhibited — I decide whether to feel inhibited or not . |
| 7 | but when I was eleven years old I did n't look at the sixth form and do jus just because they were doing something I wanted to do it , I might have admired them but if they were smoking that would n't make me want to smoke . |
| 8 | I think about buying some fags but the headache 's still there behind my eyes and I have the feeling smoking a cigarette would make me want to throw up . |
| 9 | Den it made me gu looking fe a job , |
| 10 | It made me want to slap his face . |
| 11 | I liked him , and he was different from other boys , not at all pushy , except pushy to please I suppose , but even that was sweet in a way — it made me want to say , it 's all right , do n't fret so much , I 'm having a perfectly nice time , slow down . |
| 12 | I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself . |
| 13 | Something made me want to touch you . |
| 14 | That study , more than anything else probably , made me want to see what we could do in making services more adaptable and appropriate and comprehensive . ’ |
| 15 | It made me want to go and live in San Francisco . ’ |
| 16 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 17 | ‘ Watching you wee-wee made me want to go , too , ’ she giggled . |
| 18 | But I suspect that the unhappiness at home threw me even deeper into my ornithology , and made me want to spend more and more time with birds . |
| 19 | Just looking at his fishy staring eyes and open mouth made me want to keep silent . |
| 20 | But his own political outlook was also vital : ‘ Those influences made me want to write a history of the game 's toilers , the hired labourers . |
| 21 | She makes you see reason — she made me want to smile more and drink less . |
| 22 | ‘ When I first saw the portrait , though the clasp did n't consciously register , my subconscious must have picked it up , because something I could n't pin down nagged at me , and made me want to look again . ’ |
| 23 | It made me want to run out and play the first two albums post haste , which is no bad thing . |
| 24 | It made me want to throw up ! ’ |
| 25 | It made me want to throw up . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't until I met you , but loving you made me want to know how twins could be so different . |
| 27 | When the ‘ Robert Johnson , Father of the Delta Blues ’ album came out , that was one of the main things that made me want to play slide . |
| 28 | For a moment , Trish 's laughter made me regret leaving the chummy , easy-going atmosphere of Winston Street . |
| 29 | It was seeing his picture of ‘ Mountain Silence ’ made me long to see the darksome mountain-girt lake in its weird lonesomeness with an intense longing . |
| 30 | And it sounds ridiculous saying it now , but what eventually made me decide to move was when John Mayall brought horns into the BB line-up ; I was so dumb that I thought , ‘ If it 's horns , it 's not blues . ’ |