Example sentences of "[vb infin] me [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things do n't throw me as much now . |
| 2 | His attitude shows he does n't want me around any more . |
| 3 | Did you want me so much that you gave them up ? ’ |
| 4 | Before I 'm finished you 'll want me as much as I want you . ’ |
| 5 | Could you spare me just one of your beautiful pears ? " |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure those couple of pounds less will make me even sharper . |
| 7 | In my own relatively trivial example what struck me forcefully was the assumption that being born in Canada seemed to make me more ‘ one of us ’ in the Immigration Officer 's eyes than ‘ one of them ’ , despite the fact that , within terms of the European Community , being Irish should make me far more of an insider . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd share your gin , ’ the Bishop 's wife said , ‘ except that it would make me further inclined to cry . ’ |
| 9 | That 'll make me bloody double it ! |
| 10 | ‘ No , do n't make me too comfortable . |
| 11 | This will not make me too popular at the Richmond Athletic Ground or Sunbury and it 'll probably not happen anyway . |
| 12 | ‘ It wo n't make me as sick as what you have in mind , ’ she told him recklessly . |
| 13 | Though he did not make me as starry-eyed as Daisy Yates , he was the best-looking man of any age I had ever seen , and I adored his old-fashioned manners . |
| 14 | I had only known , positively though without details , that there was no help and no comfort forthcoming from the source , and that being so I shied away from any mental flashbacks which could only make me more unhappy and ashamed . |
| 15 | Still thinking that my drink was spiked in Kansas does n't make me very trusting . |
| 16 | Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine . |
| 17 | ‘ The code for America is 0101 and it will make me very rich . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ What the sack did was make me very determined that next time round that I 'd do a better job . |
| 19 | ‘ It would make me very jealous and insecure . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The sooner this business is done , Master Clerk , the sooner you are gone and that will make me very happy ! ’ |
| 21 | I promised , so if we give my parents some money towards the expenses it will make me very happy . ’ |
| 22 | For example , it would make me very happy if I could see you every night across my dinner table ; if when I woke in the morning , I would hear you wish me ‘ Bonjour , chéri ! ’ in that so charming accent of yours . |
| 23 | My little Shelley , you are the only woman I have ever met who can make me very happy . |
| 24 | She was astounded , and did not make me much wiser . ’ |
| 25 | That learned attitude in its turn may make me uncomfortably edgy and aggressive when situations . |
| 26 | Please God , do n't make me so vain , she asked , scrambling to her feet with the rest of the congregation as the organ launched into ‘ We plough the fields and scatter ’ . |
| 27 | If it did n't make me so angry it would be laughable . ’ |
| 28 | After a while , the bullying at school did n't affect me too much , and I was in my element with all the wildlife around me . |
| 29 | I was surprised , certainly , but I did n't think it would affect me too much . ’ |
| 30 | So er I mean it did n't really affect me too much . |