Example sentences of "[verb] me [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I wish the old man had lived to see me get the farm back .
2 But it would be nice to be told that he was all the same , even if it did make me feel a bit sad . ’
3 ‘ It 'd make me feel a lot better , ’ said Grimma .
4 Not that I want to kill anybody now , but it is all for defence rather than offence , and it does make me feel a lot more secure .
5 Your charms could make me forget the world .
6 Once the game starts , the adrenalin will make me forget the injury . ’
7 Oh dear , he thought , she 's going to cry and make me look a bastard in front of all the doctors and nurses .
8 AUDREY Do n't make me have an affair YOU AND YOUR LOOKS SPECIAL 50 ways to look GREAT this summer
9 Derek was always very supportive of what I was trying to do — helping me build the aviary in his back garden had made him interested in birds too — but I could n't expect him to drop everything and drive me from Tintagel to London .
10 She made me sign the paper . ’
11 The woman said : ‘ A policeman made me move the car .
12 I was hungry but had to wait while he fiddled with a saucepan and then made me endure the smell of the meat coming from it .
13 It also made me realise the risk of skyline walking .
14 I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision .
15 Yet a combination of things , active marketing by both the gallery and the artist herself , made me make the journey to Watermans .
16 Every time I visited him he made me polish the dust off the bottle , so it came as a huge relief when we were finally able to open it .
17 It was only semi-erotic because she made me wear a condom .
18 But a desire to be fair , a wish to be absolutely certain , and an understandable reluctance to accuse someone of perfidy who has been a friend of mine for six difficult years made me pull the telephone back to my mouth .
19 It 's very peculiar — he made me feel a fool .
20 I thought about it and it made me feel a bit better .
21 That made me feel a bit of an outsider .
22 They gave me a pethidine injection which just made me feel a bit sleepy .
23 That made me feel a bit better , so I tottered to the top of the hill and stared bleakly around , in the equally bleak daylight .
24 You know , it made me feel a bit sick last night .
25 Teaching practice made me feel a lot less dispirited .
26 There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over .
27 The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time .
28 It made me think a lot about photography while I was in prison ; it was like why are you doing this ? ’
29 Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people : those who knew what they wanted to do ; those ( the unhappiest ) who never knew what their purpose in life was ; and those who found out later on .
30 The DHSS made me go to see them every day — I had a broken bone in my ankle but they still made me go every day !
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