Example sentences of "[verb] me [vb infin] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My father would make me stand up straight and sing the national anthem four times . |
| 2 | ‘ Michael could make me laugh very easily , ’ said Cossins . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't make me wait too long , that 's all . ’ |
| 4 | I tried an abortive term at Durham University Drama Department and that made me realise even more that I wanted the real thing ; by then I had , in any case , worked the AIM stint and I did n't need theory ; I wanted practice . |
| 5 | The smooth-talking soothsayer is played by Ron Moody : ‘ Doing the voice-over made me realise just how intelligent and satirical the writing is . |
| 6 | In trying to sort out this problem I was driven to delving through old logbooks , and it was reading them that made me realise just how often we had based ourselves in the area . |
| 7 | Wilma finished the session by cantering into four foot fences and popping over them as if they were no bigger than our two foot nine ones — which made me realise how far we have to go . |
| 8 | That made me realise how much we depend on the prison officers and the fantastic security systems that have been built up . |
| 9 | Or when Tom says , ‘ My teacher made me stay in today ’ , parents would do well to resist the temptation to answer , ‘ Now what have you done ? ’ , or ‘ I suppose you deserved it ’ , replies which would have inflamed his feelings . |
| 10 | Alec wore a navy-blue romper suit — the outfit of a French workman , or indeed that of some little new-wave narcissist at a C. L. & S. screening It was the sight of him in his issued clothing that made me sense just how far he had fallen . |
| 11 | ‘ Gosh , that made me feel so much better — being told the whole world is in recession ! ’ |
| 12 | What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ? |
| 13 | All this made me feel very much better and I immediately wrote my name up on the wall . |
| 14 | However , when I heard Mr. Gorbachev speaking at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in 1989 , about a common European home , I could perceive an image of Europe that made me feel far more European than I had ever done before . |
| 15 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 16 | That bit made me think even then . |
| 17 | You made me think more clearly about what I wanted from life . ’ |
| 18 | Your young cousin 's visit made me appreciate just how much I missed . |
| 19 | It made me appreciate just how frustrated she must so often feel . |
| 20 | They made me try twice as hard . |
| 21 | ‘ It just made me wonder even more why such a destructive hitter has such a modest one day record , with an average of about 27 , ’ said his skipper . |
| 22 | The sight of him standing there smoking made me realize how little any of us in Benedict 's knew what he was really like as a man , once out of the defensive armour of his white coat . |
| 23 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 24 | I denied homosexual inclinations but he still made me bend down so that he could inspect my behind with a wooden spatula . |
| 25 | It was foolish hurt pride that made me behave so coldly towards you . |
| 26 | Stuck in the middle of the Oxfordshire countryside with hundreds of noisy incomprehensible children and colleagues who make me feel about as comfortable as a walk in the rain . |
| 27 | but make me laugh even now , she said the first , the first memories I 've got of new little boy that starting in he looked at this little boy , she said , so , so excited by said with this pure white hair and the |
| 28 | His questions make me realize again how far away Europe is from the United States , and how relatively obscure . |
| 29 | they 're dead naff , right , cos Steve Wright in the afternoon as a thing , he says , he says , what do you want Essex girl and he 's said something funny she 'll , she 'll go , you crack me right up you do , you make me crack right up , right and they 're suppose and they are , well I do n't know , but they 're supposed to be really naff |
| 30 | The initial response of Bishop Crowley immediately after his appointment was ‘ Let me say immediately how glad I am to be here ’ . |