Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ When we play like that it makes me wonder why we are in the wrong half of the table . |
| 2 | The magazine folded and we all got drunk on Bulgarian wine and I made a speech about going out to penetrate the government and cut the arteries of the police state right at its heart — you need Bulgarian wine to say things like that it makes me faint to think of it now . |
| 3 | I just change the format a little bit here and there so it makes me write differently . |
| 4 | She sort of flinches but I dab real soft and she lets me finish . |
| 5 | And she makes me laugh all the time — laughter is tremendously bonding , it 's the greatest thing . |
| 6 | Sh and she really , and she makes me laugh when she said , talking to someone and when they start working again she turns round to the next person at the other side of her ! |
| 7 | If there is , my fiancee suffers from it and she makes me suffer because of it . |
| 8 | The policeman is civil and he lets me go , commenting on my eyesore of a car , warning me to get my tail-light repaired . |
| 9 | ‘ I pay the rent and he lets me sleep here . ’ |
| 10 | He 's a good-looking man , and he makes me laugh , and he screws like the angel of light . |
| 11 | ‘ God forbid ! ’ said Dionne , ‘ just that I 'm living with a delinquent at the moment and it makes me feel mature . |
| 12 | That I think of as a compliment , and it makes me feel good . |
| 13 | It is puzzling when people say I write like this one and that one and all such different kinds of writers and so many of them , and it makes me feel I am nothing in myself . ’ |
| 14 | I keep getting awful pains in my side and it makes me go all hot . |
| 15 | I can do all those nice things in Jan , Feb and March , and not to mention when I get home tearing my garden to pieces , that 's gone to pot , which is as well , because it does n't make it , see , see one thing I find about coming down here , I see the really smarter shops than I would unless I were in Norwich and it makes me realise still after this , I do n't crave for the things in shops . |
| 16 | And it makes me wish that it could always be so . |
| 17 | I should n't have asked that , Florence Ames thought , he does n't care to be questioned about his mother and it makes me seem too familiar , too prying . |
| 18 | But now that items are no longer individually labelled we , the public , have to go by the shelf price , and it makes me wonder how many other prices are incorrectly displayed . |
| 19 | If he lets me go he 'll have to trust me . |
| 20 | Well I can , if he lets me have his space we do n't have to worry too much about the time and go about er just after nine or something . |
| 21 | I hate it when people cry , cos it makes me want to do the same thing . |
| 22 | Cos it makes me laugh when they pull up here , I say , look at this outfit dad ! |
| 23 | Oh I I think I shall have to turn this one up a little Dad says it 's alright being long cos it makes me look taller well I do n't know about that what do you think ? |
| 24 | ‘ She 's a menace , but she makes me laugh . ’ |
| 25 | But she makes me laugh though . |
| 26 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 27 | I 'm not very good at it , but she makes me try even though I keep burning it . " |
| 28 | ‘ Mr Wilson 's kind , but he makes me feel out of it , ’ whispered Mrs H. Mr Wilson was indeed kind . |
| 29 | They 've got proper dancers for that … but he makes me run . ’ |
| 30 | He ca n't see me of course but it makes me feel funny . |