Example sentences of "make me a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling guilty does not make me a better person . |
| 2 | A child , I feel , will make me a better person and draw the attention of others to my good character . |
| 3 | I asked her if she had any medication that would make me a better surfer . |
| 4 | ‘ It wo n't make me a better player , ’ added Strachan , ‘ but it 's always nice to get a pat on the back . ’ |
| 5 | She 'll make me a good wife , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 6 | Mother would make me a packed lunch ; Dad deliver me to the bus station at St Andrew Square , Edinburgh . |
| 7 | Food and drink would be brought to me every day from all the villages , six hundred people would be my servants , three hundred men would make me a new suit , and six teachers would teach me their language . |
| 8 | But the fact that I 've never been to England before does n't make me a complete bumpkin . |
| 9 | Just do n't make me a geriatric case , Doc . ’ |
| 10 | Now , why do n't you make me a nice cup of hot coffee , and we can sit down like two civilised adults and I 'll explain everything ? ’ |
| 11 | Being restricted here does not make me a special case , though . |
| 12 | It will make me a stronger man . ’ |
| 13 | She also made me a small bed , which was placed on a shelf too high for rats to reach . |
| 14 | He made me a fair offer in the circumstances and I even picked up another two pounds from one of the street traders for Charlie 's huge barrow ; but hard though I tried I could n't find a buyer for Granpa Charlie 's dreadful old nineteenth-century relic . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought he was laughing at me , that he did n't want to see me , but then he stopped me and he made me a little bow , just like a real gentleman , and gave me a present , as if he did care . |
| 16 | Anyway , that made me a scarlet woman . ’ |
| 17 | Come on make me a nice cup of tea . |
| 18 | Go and make me a nice cup of tea Mike ? |
| 19 | Make me a better job prospect . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll be interested if Newcastle make me a good offer , ’ said the 25-year-old Ghent striker . |
| 21 | Make me a whole man before I go out to take the field with Wales in my hands . |
| 22 | He 's made me a new person ! |
| 23 | On the other hand , my journeys in Wiltshire had made me a familiar figure to the police , and I consulted them about evacuating from London a distinguished man , of whose name , I need hardly say , they had never heard . |
| 24 | When I was a kid , in Hull , my father and mother took me to Hessle to have tea with his boss , and I remember Mother telling me that she had stayed up half the night making me a new sailor suit and saying , ‘ Behave yourself , Bill . |
| 25 | My father tried making me a wooden train , but that did n't satisfy me , as I wanted something that worked . |
| 26 | He wrote that his mother 's ‘ hopeful ambition ran high of being able to make me a good scholar . ’ |
| 27 | On the one hand , I want fatherhood to make me a better person because I believe that , once I have the responsibility of looking after a child , giving up smoking and drinking and spending money on the motorbike will be a doddle . |
| 28 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 29 | When I come round the Lord 's table , it 's not to make me a better Christian , it 's not to make me a better person , a more religious person , a more spiritual person it 's a confession of faith , apart from being an act of obedience , it is a confession of faith . |
| 30 | It makes me a good actress , but I 'm too sensitive to atmosphere . |