Example sentences of "[noun sg] make me [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Light made me powerless .
3 Fighting makes me hungry . ’
4 'cos the state of the place made me sick .
5 This semi-audible remark made me uneasy — that there had been debate at all on my utility — so much so that I wished I had never heard it .
6 All might still have been well , if he had n't , in a desire to make me happier stood away from me and said , " You look lovely . "
7 The Typical Chinese Dishes with plenty of good hot coffee on top of them seemed to combine with the heating in the place to make me sleepy .
8 The drink made me excited and confused so that time seemed to be moving in a series of huge uneasy jerks , sometimes accelerating wildly and sometimes standing absolutely still .
9 This dawning knowledge made me aware of my isolation .
10 A fulsomely congratulatory message to me from Reuters later in the day made me aware that no representative of my rival overseas agencies had been present at the Jeanes conference .
11 I have discovered for example that the acute stress of being interviewed makes me sweat a lot , an afternoon of difficult telephone calls leaves me with lower back pain , while the run-down-at-the-end-of-a-long-hard-term kind of stress makes me irritable and forgetful .
12 The best I can hope for is to be dragged home and given stuff to make me manageable .
13 I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat .
14 In the clinch , his winching made me ill
15 Terror made me cruel .
16 I had intended to adopt a more conciliatory approach , but his whole manner made me angry .
17 Although I felt sorry for him , that prickliness in his manner made me reluctant to reveal myself .
18 This gets distorted , though ; for instance , living on chocolate makes me happy , but so does not getting spots or flab .
19 He drove in silence after that and I fell asleep until the roughness of the road made me open my eyes .
20 That in turn made me angry , ’ he explained .
21 Hearing that man made me glad I was 64 , which fact gave me a sporting chance of dying a natural death before the inevitable holocaust .
22 My love makes her happy ; her love makes me happy : how could this be wrong ?
23 The thought makes me scared , but I still feel relief when the scales show a couple of pounds less .
24 I know that having a seventy-eight-centimetre leg makes me shorter than average , but Jesus .
25 Dry stones , sun and dust make me fearful ;
26 ‘ It takes a lot to make me angry .
27 ‘ The prospect of relegation makes me sick to the pit of my stomach .
28 As heir to the droit morale and guardian of the Magritte estate , Charly Herscovici explained that ‘ Inheriting this intellectual property makes me responsible for protecting the artist and his work , and ensuring that it is handed down for posterity .
29 ‘ I do n't know about you , but that film made me horny .
30 He talked rather obsessively about those times , and while he talked I was overwhelmed by feelings of desolation : this no man 's land made me uneasy .
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