Example sentences of "but [pers pn] make me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you made me fight it , and I did . |
| 2 | At least — at least — I do n't know what it is about you , Miss Abbott , but you make me want to bare my soul to you — I did have a wife once , years ago , when I was very young , but she left me , not I her , to live with someone else . |
| 3 | I had never been to such a show before — not at all the thing that well-bred young ladies are supposed to attend — but she made me laugh … |
| 4 | For instance , she never specifically said : ‘ Do n't blame your mother for everything ’ , but she made me understand that I was using my mother as an excuse for the fact that I was n't happy a lot of the time . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's a menace , but she makes me laugh . ’ |
| 6 | But she makes me laugh though . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 'm not very good at it , but she makes me try even though I keep burning it . " |
| 9 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |
| 10 | But they made me feel great , I told them , " I want to live here . " |
| 11 | During a run in a Neil Simon play , I struggled with soft lenses but they made me cry constantly — which was unfortunate , as Neil tends to expect laughs . |
| 12 | Well , I like them a lot , but they make me feel kind of young and stupid at times . ’ |
| 13 | I 've got some pills but they make me feel like a rag in the mornings . |
| 14 | But they make me die because you , you you 're a day , I mean we got this sort of letter the bailiffs were coming in because we were a day late . |
| 15 | Andy Ripley is mad , mad , mad , but he made me laugh . |
| 16 | But he made me do it , I did n't want to do it , but he he he made me do it . |
| 17 | My father knew I would n't do biology , but he made me do chemistry and only a small amount of mathematics . |
| 18 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 19 | ‘ Mr Wilson 's kind , but he makes me feel out of it , ’ whispered Mrs H. Mr Wilson was indeed kind . |
| 20 | They 've got proper dancers for that … but he makes me run . ’ |
| 21 | I laughed at this , but it made me think of where Charlie may have inherited some of his cruelty . |
| 22 | He did a very good job , but it made me think about what would be right for me when I died . ’ |
| 23 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 24 | I was n't sure , but it made me think . |
| 25 | But it made me think you must have been a friend of Hugh 's . |
| 26 | This was a side of her nature that she 'd kept hidden from me but it made me realise my feelings were justified . |
| 27 | ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring shopping for clothes really is . |
| 28 | Barbara says although she had a fantastic day , she will probably stick to making her own clothes in future : ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring modelling — and shopping — really are . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't drink too much of that , ’ said my mother , unable to stop herself ; but it made me feel better , more like the early girl of Egypt and less like the starveling cat . |
| 30 | But it made me feel , that meeting with her , that G.P. did love me ( want me ) . |