Example sentences of "[be] [verb] make me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you think you 're going to make me treat Sarella in the same sort of way you 're mistaken . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're beginning to make me wonder why I should n't see her , ’ he said blandly . |
| 3 | So if you 're hoping to make me feel guilty or bad you 're wasting your time ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 're trying to make me go , are n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | Now you 're trying to make me pay . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose you 're planning to make me foam at the mouth and gabble in obsolete tongues . ’ |
| 7 | Well they 've been very direct and they 've been having to make me think a lot about what I 'm doing . |
| 8 | I am aware that much of what I am saying makes me sound like some ageing Pollyanna who just wants to pretend that all is sweetness and light . |
| 9 | But what we 've just been saying makes me ask if even that is going too far . |
| 10 | I have discovered for example that the acute stress of being interviewed makes me sweat a lot , an afternoon of difficult telephone calls leaves me with lower back pain , while the run-down-at-the-end-of-a-long-hard-term kind of stress makes me irritable and forgetful . |
| 11 | My father , who 's also an actor , once wanted me to be in a play that he was in , and just being asked made me cry . |
| 12 | ‘ On your honour ’ is calculated to make me break down and confess . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's the way I see it , ’ was Karen 's doggedly repeated bottom line , ‘ and nothing you say is going to make me change . ’ |
| 14 | No one 's going to make me buy a postcard with a baby otter on it , or pick up a leaflet on alpine lichens . |
| 15 | The wings go berserk and the whole thing is beginning to make me feel rotten , then they stop and I figure I 've done it . |
| 16 | Leonora 's determined to make me drive her all the way home tonight . ’ |
| 17 | That was calculated to make me feel really good , was n't it ? |
| 18 | I was damned if some nineteen-year-old pipsqueak with zits and a clip-on tie was going to make me feel loathsome . |
| 19 | ‘ I made up my mind that we were going to get married , and nothing was going to make me change my mind . |
| 20 | I closed my eyes tightly because this silly new pain was going to make me cry . |
| 21 | Thoughts of gangrene and amputations terrified me until , after seventeen miles , I reached camp , where Mick was waiting to make me forget myself . |
| 22 | ‘ I felt a stab of pain as the needle went into my leg but the fact that it was concealed made me feel less squeamish , ’ she says . |
| 23 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |