Example sentences of "make me a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She 'll make me a good wife , do n't you think ? ’
2 Mother would make me a packed lunch ; Dad deliver me to the bus station at St Andrew Square , Edinburgh .
3 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 .
4 But the fact that I 've never been to England before does n't make me a complete bumpkin .
5 Just do n't make me a geriatric case , Doc . ’
6 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 ? ’
7 Being restricted here does not make me a special case , though .
8 She also made me a small bed , which was placed on a shelf too high for rats to reach .
9 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 .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 Anyway , that made me a scarlet woman . ’
12 Come on make me a nice cup of tea .
13 Go and make me a nice cup of tea Mike ?
14 ‘ I 'll be interested if Newcastle make me a good offer , ’ said the 25-year-old Ghent striker .
15 Make me a whole man before I go out to take the field with Wales in my hands .
16 He 's made me a new person !
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 My father tried making me a wooden train , but that did n't satisfy me , as I wanted something that worked .
20 He wrote that his mother 's ‘ hopeful ambition ran high of being able to make me a good scholar . ’
21 It makes me a good actress , but I 'm too sensitive to atmosphere .
22 The little hair is growing back and er that makes me a happy person .
23 She told one foreign reporter that she knew of the rumours and laughed them off , saying , ‘ If my relationship with the General Staff makes me a secret agent , maybe I am ! ’
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