Example sentences of "[is] [adj] make [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's cruel to make me suffer like this ! |
| 2 | Is that making you sneeze ? |
| 3 | It is easy to make him look personally responsible for setting the process in train and bringing it to fruition . |
| 4 | The ‘ sir ’ is supposed to make me feel better . |
| 5 | ‘ And that 's supposed to make me feel better ? ’ she asked bitterly . |
| 6 | It 's despicable to make me admit it . |
| 7 | It 's enough to make me believe in fate . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He 's enough to make anyone feel a little insecure . ’ |
| 9 | The house , the grounds , the cars , the beautiful children , the expensive clothes , the dashing husband — it 's enough to make you spit … but read on . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's enough to make you want to top yourself when you get to seventy . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's enough to make you cut your throat . |
| 12 | Course that Avant Garde stuff 's enough to make you spew |
| 13 | It 's enough to make you drive all the way to south-west France and strew some beetroot on the lanes . |
| 14 | Living out here is inclined to make me lose count of time . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't expect you to get everything right , but to describe the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception as coming from a ‘ literal translation ’ of a controversial biblical passage ’ is enough to make me chuckle — especially in a piece headed ‘ Fundamentalism — The |
| 16 | This is enough to make me feel like I own the world . |
| 17 | I find that wilfulness in itself is enough to make me turn away from something . |
| 18 | The opposite palazzo is private , but the view to the small arcaded courtyard , especially if it is sunlit , is enough to make you yearn to have spent time in Renaissance Milan . |
| 19 | Finally , one look at the South Africans ' itinerary for the next six months — tests against Romania , Italy , then New Zealand , Australia , France and England — is enough to make you break out in a cold sweat . |
| 20 | It is enough to make you smell a rat and be damned for your cynicism . |
| 21 | And then you get lots of other unwelcome knocks on the door — one man who says he 's looking for number 11 , another who says he 's a taxi-driver who 's come to the wrong house — and he probably is but his timing is enough to make you rush about panicking and locking the place up like Fort Knox . |
| 22 | The stench of rotting , wounded flesh is enough to make you vomit . |
| 23 | Laziness is enough to make anyone feel ill . ’ |
| 24 | Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop , which is enough to make anyone feel self-conscious . |
| 25 | Oh she said it 's silly making him do that I said er very quickly I said , I said do n't get me wrong I said for kids who enjoy going to that sort of thing it 's great and fine if it 's alright |
| 26 | It 's just I do n't feel the need to have them round me any more , and I think that suits them and it 's silly to make them pretend the contrary . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Her attitude towards him is sufficient to make him smell disruption . ’ |