Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] me [vb infin] [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 | or let me lay on my belly |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The g was less , and that made me feel at home . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 8 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 9 | The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Indeed , my research on images of the gene in popular culture is revealing trends that make me wonder about the results of public participation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'm sure a healthy body leads to a healthy mind and that helped me cope with the daily pressures of newspaper life . ’ |
| 20 | The thing that makes me believe in God is that there 's a special kind of weather on Sundays . |
| 21 | Sometimes I will have abandoned a painting , got really tired of it and feel it 's not getting anywhere , and you will come and make some remark that makes me look at it again and think : oh yes , I could just pull that one together . |
| 22 | I have a folding mac that makes me look like a haystack in the rain , I have an umbrella that would fit most of Dublin under it . ’ |
| 23 | God that makes me look like a good player that , does n't it ? |
| 24 | The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince . |
| 25 | So I hope it is n't just sentimentality that makes me baulk at his drastic solution . |
| 26 | Two days ago I ate baited carrion left out for fox or crow over in Skye and its effects were to poison me and make me feel near death . |
| 27 | Soho , meanwhile , enthuse and make me feel like a miserable old fart . |
| 28 | Quadratic equations were a great mystery to me , and seeing me struggle with a problem he would call me out and painstakingly take me step by step to a solution . |
| 29 | They always do that , the saucy wenches , they like to tease and make me beg for them to come back . |
| 30 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |