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 . |