Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb -s] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think about phoning her mobile but she hates me doing that so I do n't . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's a menace , but she makes me laugh . ’ |
| 3 | But she makes me laugh though . |
| 4 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 5 | I 'm not very good at it , but she makes me try even though I keep burning it . " |
| 6 | No , but she wants me to bring you back for a meal . |
| 7 | But he likes me to look nice when we go out anyway which is not often , granted . |
| 8 | He means to mend the world , but he needs me to mend his clothes … |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Wilson 's kind , but he makes me feel out of it , ’ whispered Mrs H. Mr Wilson was indeed kind . |
| 10 | They 've got proper dancers for that … but he makes me run . ’ |
| 11 | He ca n't see me of course but it makes me feel funny . |
| 12 | In fact , my dogs eat the supermarket 's own brand and I seldom change my car ; paying double for my dinner is the nearest I get to it , to being Imelda , or Ivana , but it makes me feel good . |
| 13 | But it makes me feel calmer . |
| 14 | I erm am obviously feeling guilty cos I 'm not feeling guilty but it makes me cough a bit to go to the post office every week and get vastly more disabl disability er invalidity benefit than he gets , vastly more . |
| 15 | But it makes me wonder what you were doing if you were worried I was watching ! ’ |