Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] me [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath . |
| 2 | Right , I 'm here vir virtually throughout the vacation , erm , I 'll be here until the beginning of next term , so if you are having problems of any sort , or want me to run through something with you , just er , feel free to disturb me . |
| 3 | or let me lay on my belly |
| 4 | Did any News reader obtain one and would they sell me a copy or allow me to pay for a loan of a negative ? |
| 5 | This presented a thought that made me shudder with fright : this awesome , eerie world-apart in the dead of night , unbearably cold , no moon or stars , merely the moan of the mysterious gods beneath the ice … |
| 6 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 7 | The g was less , and that made me feel at home . |
| 8 | The audience were a comic 's dream and when Dennie came back on stage and whispered ‘ two minutes to count-down ’ I ran off to applause that made me feel like Mike Tyson . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 10 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 11 | The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam . |
| 12 | The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet . |
| 13 | Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love . |
| 14 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 15 | She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace . |
| 16 | More than anything else it was the two essays Camus wrote evoking ‘ the great free love of nature and the sea ’ at Tipasa that made me come to Algeria . |
| 17 | When I wrote ‘ Nirvana ’ , it was just supposed to be this positive thing about a song that made me wan na go and live , not really a political thing , like you say someone might hear that and go out and try to change things . |
| 18 | I 'd swap my vest and plasters for a Marks and Spencer circle-stitched bra , a rigid , pointed contraption that made me look as if I had a couple of ice-cream cones up my jumper : I could never fill them to the end ( not even on a good day ) and the last waltz would result in dents in the ends . |
| 19 | She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’ |
| 20 | Indeed , it was his example that led me to see beneath the brilliance and beauty of Paris , where the plight of its dispossessed is mirrored in the experience of the very people — artists and intellectuals — who are responsible for its reputation . |
| 21 | Indeed , my research on images of the gene in popular culture is revealing trends that make me wonder about the results of public participation . |
| 22 | Initially it was the drumming that got me bouncing in my seat , but when the bass came in I just could n't help grinning insanely at all the other drivers , wishing they could hear it too ( mind you , I had it up so loud that they probably could ) . |
| 23 | And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching . |
| 24 | I 'm sure a healthy body leads to a healthy mind and that helped me cope with the daily pressures of newspaper life . ’ |
| 25 | In the past I had encountered statements in books and official reports that encouraged me to think of mathematics in a positive way : |
| 26 | My definition of harmful treatment would embrace not just treatment that exposed me to risk without any hope of compensating benefit but treatment of unproved efficacy that diverted me from having other treatments that were of proved value . |
| 27 | Says Reagan : ‘ The speaker that followed me spoke in Spanish and he was being applauded about every paragraph . |
| 28 | But it was ‘ Tusk ’ that started me thinking along the lines of trying to be true to what I think 's interesting and not necessarily just what people want to hear . ’ |
| 29 | I was recently talking to the mother of a four year old boy about his progress at learning his letters , when I realized just how responsible and vulnerable she felt about his lack of progress , and that started me thinking about the educational process and the pressures that we put on ourselves and our children to succeed . |
| 30 | The thing that kept me glued to the TV was the gorgeous Jennifer Capriati with her magnificent looks , great personality and brilliant tennis . |