Example sentences of "[verb] me [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 On one thing that really drives me mad about Carter .
2 Well for a number of reasons , that 's one of them that 's one spinner and one yarn , and he offers me all of those colours , ex stock , in sort of ten days delivery and er one carton at a time , if I wanted .
3 I do not yet understand it , but although I was once a keen and proud European , there are things in it that would now make me one of the most sceptical .
4 One thing the damned illness does is make me tired for very little .
5 I drink everything I earn , which does n't make me much of a drunk I might tell you . ’
6 That might make me popular in the colleges ( laughs ) . ’
7 It does n't make me unusual in any way .
8 That which I trust shall make me worthy of your high esteem .
9 This stand does not make me blind to the distress others feel or to the disillusionment that this issue causes .
10 I knew that his clothes , his manners and uneducated way of speaking would make me ashamed of him .
11 Do n't make me ashamed of you . ’
12 ‘ And indeed we might say that the very greatest soldiers — Joshua , David , Alexander — who lent me one of my Christian names — Caesar , of course , our own great Alfred — the only king we call Great — Edward — and we could extend the list into the present — all have been scholars in some manner .
13 ‘ Bill lent me some of his architecture books , ’ she explained .
14 They asked me first of all why I paint on paper and I 'm using older to paint on .
15 You got me all in a lather , and then slid out from under me . ’
16 Oh she got me this from Ikea .
17 Er and then he got me he er he got me interested in politics and he got me going to this N C L C evening evening classes .
18 eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one
19 And when I erm , first got them cos my granny got me some for a birthday present
20 I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat .
21 In the palace , in the castle , at the hunt ball and the country house men brayed like donkeys and women shrieked and swooped like owls : the middle classes made me fidgety with their concern — was I not out too late ?
22 The treatment they gave him made me proud to be a Leeds fan .
23 With one doctor , one nurse made me one of the doctors told me to get up .
24 I realized I just had to accept him for what he was , and when I learnt to do that , he did the same to me - accepted me without question , in all my imperfection , in all that made me unworthy of him .
25 It has confirmed my belief in the snowball effect around EOP issues , but also made me aware of , and have strength to cope with , backlashes — such as the question ‘ which group or interest are you representing ? ’
26 The international action made me aware of the necessity for international co-operation in the fight for the fundamental rights of man and reassured me that human compassion is still alive in this world .
27 This made me aware of how badly I 'd done with the domestic arrangements .
28 This dawning knowledge made me aware of my isolation .
29 but er they were a bit of a nuisance because more than once , I must admit I erm , I collided with them which rather made me aware of their presence but anyway erm , then just beyond I am sorry , on the erm right hand side , a little way down this corridor , were the stairs up to the next floor which was in those days Public Health
30 The Moghul tombs , the Red Fort , the towering minarets of the Jami Masjid , made me aware for the first time of the significance of civilization , and the meaning of history .
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