Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [vb infin] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter does n't make me laugh at all . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie . |
| 4 | If you present someone with a set of stripes on a TV screen and make them move at right angles to their long axis , that is the direction in which the person will see them move . |
| 5 | What made you jump at that moment ? |
| 6 | Only the young man 's intuitive fear of the heavy couple who had entered his shop , closed the door and locked it , and pushed him roughly into the back room , made him co-operate at all . |
| 7 | He admits the scheme cramped his dress sense and made him sweat at official functions , but he hopes he has given the people of Hawick ‘ a sense of purpose , pride and awareness of the quality of world-class knitwear they produce ’ . |
| 8 | Artai was incapable of sitting still for long , and only his abnormal concern with his appearance made him submit at all to the restrictive nature of the ministrations of the Y'frike slaves . |
| 9 | With even-handed ridicule , John Mortimer spends much of this novel making you laugh at both . |
| 10 | They made us stay at one end of the room . |