Example sentences of "[adj] to make i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucenzo , are you doing this to make me go home ? ’ |
| 2 | I know I was , and it took a tragedy like this to make me see straight . ’ |
| 3 | I 've lots of ideas for these , but as they are all quick to make I 've left them for next month when you have finished your special presents and they are neatly folded and packed away in all their glory of tissue paper and gold and silver ribbons . |
| 4 | The ‘ sir ’ is supposed to make me feel better . |
| 5 | This was supposed to make me feel better . |
| 6 | ‘ And is that supposed to make me feel better ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And that 's supposed to make me feel better ? ’ she asked bitterly . |
| 8 | But what the screens revealed was not likely to make me feel easy . |
| 9 | It 's despicable to make me admit it . |
| 10 | But they 're apt to make me feel a bit I suppose that 's what they 're for , a bit docile like , you know what I mean ? |
| 11 | But you 've always been able to make me behave completely out of character . ’ |
| 12 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |
| 13 | This is enough to make me feel like I own the world . |
| 14 | I do n't expect you to get everything right , but to describe the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception as coming from a ‘ literal translation ’ of a controversial biblical passage ’ is enough to make me chuckle — especially in a piece headed ‘ Fundamentalism — The |
| 15 | This was enough to make me forget the abstract art of 1912–13 ! ’ |
| 16 | Once he 'd gone , I was approached by a woman who started rubbing my stomach and putting her hand down my trousers , which I must say was enough to make me say yes immediately . |
| 17 | I find that wilfulness in itself is enough to make me turn away from something . |
| 18 | It 's enough to make me believe in fate . ’ |
| 19 | Living out here is inclined to make me lose count of time . ’ |
| 20 | But you do your best to make me stop caring . |
| 21 | Though you 're doing your best to make me forget it ! |
| 22 | When she arrived at Walsall , she informed Edward that Mrs Noble , after sending her earlier a ‘ vulgar and jeering ’ letter in which ‘ She does her best to make me doubt you ’ , had forbidden them to meet or correspond until Helen reached years of discretion — her twenty-first birthday on 11 July 1898 . |
| 23 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 24 | It was strange because there were only two of them , and normally it takes a lot more than that to make me feel outnumbered . |
| 25 | It 's cruel to make me suffer like this ! |
| 26 | ‘ Crueller to make me do what you want , ’ she said in an unnaturally high voice . |