Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made me just want revenge . |
| 2 | That made me just seventeen when the War broke out . " |
| 3 | ‘ I now knew he was handicapped but that made me even more determined to keep him . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I missed out on the Olympics , but that made me even more determined to join the paid ranks . ’ |
| 5 | That made me as proud as anything I achieved in my career . ’ |
| 6 | that made me there |
| 7 | That choked me up . |
| 8 | That shuts me up . |
| 9 | ‘ Now , ’ he whispered confidentially , ‘ the thing to remember is that the Greek Orthodox priest is the one on the left with the beard , ’ and with that flung me determinedly into my seat . |
| 10 | Clever as he was , he was n't sufficiently clever to see this , and his assumption that I was half-witted made me stubbornly worse . |
| 11 | That stopped me short . |
| 12 | That worries me too . |
| 13 | That amazes me why people , it 's like a status symbol they have to have the best bloody machine ! |
| 14 | But there was nothing around that moved me enough to go out and change things . |
| 15 | " Who was that that let me in ? " said Clara , following Clelia meekly up the staircase , and up and up , to the second floor . |
| 16 | And there is the fact that he is a good painter , and I know he will be quite famous one day , and this influences me more than it should . |
| 17 | It was the longest afternoon that I had known and it was worse when I heard the sound of tea being prepared downstairs for this made me even more hungry . |
| 18 | This made me even more of a social outcast since most of the other girls already regarded my disability , my lack of money , my accent and the council estate on which I lived as reasons to ignore me . |
| 19 | This upsets me even more . |
| 20 | Personal reflection helps me discover my whereabouts and articulating this with another encourages me on . |
| 21 | This moved me deeply . |
| 22 | I ran for the school from the first year onwards , and this helped me tremendously . |
| 23 | This pleased me very much because I was longing to hear her play the instrument . |
| 24 | ‘ At 18 miles I saw my parents standing in the crowd and this lifted me tremendously . |
| 25 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 26 | ‘ This hurts me more than it does you . ’ |
| 27 | Simon by then had heavily said , ‘ This hurts me more than it hurts you ’ to Pippa , and when the chaos was over Thomas began to laugh , for he had seen that the lash of the crop literally had curled round onto Simon 's back between each stroke , probably quite stingingly , though the man had been too excited to notice it . |
| 28 | And ( this interests me very much ) what is Mr Heathcliff ? |
| 29 | ‘ Your mother bought you out and with that money you are willing to buy me out ? ’ |
| 30 | This troubled me so much that when , in the morning , I found Curtis running the polisher over the hall floor , I asked him , ‘ Did you hear that in the night , Curtis ? |