Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] to make me [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I was damned if some nineteen-year-old pipsqueak with zits and a clip-on tie was going to make me feel loathsome .
2 ‘ I made up my mind that we were going to get married , and nothing was going to make me change my mind .
3 I closed my eyes tightly because this silly new pain was going to make me cry .
4 Thoughts of gangrene and amputations terrified me until , after seventeen miles , I reached camp , where Mick was waiting to make me forget myself .
5 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 .
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