Example sentences of "be [verb] to make me " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If you think you 're going to make me treat Sarella in the same sort of way you 're mistaken . |
2 | ‘ Oh , yes — I can see they 're going to make me old before my time , ’ Liz had laughed ruefully . |
3 | ‘ You 're beginning to make me wonder why I should n't see her , ’ he said blandly . |
4 | So if you 're hoping to make me feel guilty or bad you 're wasting your time ! ’ |
5 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
6 | ‘ You 're trying to make me go , are n't you ? ’ |
7 | Now you 're trying to make me pay . |
8 | ‘ I suppose you 're planning to make me foam at the mouth and gabble in obsolete tongues . ’ |
9 | She had forgotten that her papa was supposed to be dead , and had spoken of him in the present tense , a fact not wasted on Dr Neil , who made no comment , but asked politely , ‘ And does all this stockmarket bargaining mean that you are going to make me a cup of tea , or not ? |
10 | Well they 've been very direct and they 've been having to make me think a lot about what I 'm doing . |
11 | ‘ On your honour ’ is calculated to make me break down and confess . |
12 | He 's dying to make me grateful . |
13 | ‘ That 's the way I see it , ’ was Karen 's doggedly repeated bottom line , ‘ and nothing you say is going to make me change . ’ |
14 | ‘ The one I 've got is going to make me rich ! ’ ‘ |
15 | No one 's going to make me buy a postcard with a baby otter on it , or pick up a leaflet on alpine lichens . |
16 | It 's going to make me my fortune |
17 | The wings go berserk and the whole thing is beginning to make me feel rotten , then they stop and I figure I 've done it . |
18 | I do n't know it 's just I think he 's trying to make me out as a bad mother |
19 | She 's trying to make me and him enemies . |
20 | Yeah and when she got up to leave he just like patted her on the bum kind of thing and Jess saw it and Jess thought oh he 's trying to make me jealous |
21 | Leonora 's determined to make me drive her all the way home tonight . ’ |
22 | That was calculated to make me feel really good , was n't it ? |
23 | I was damned if some nineteen-year-old pipsqueak with zits and a clip-on tie was going to make me feel loathsome . |
24 | I closed my eyes tightly because this silly new pain was going to make me cry . |
25 | ‘ I made up my mind that we were going to get married , and nothing was going to make me change my mind . |
26 | Thoughts of gangrene and amputations terrified me until , after seventeen miles , I reached camp , where Mick was waiting to make me forget myself . |
27 | ‘ Because — well , I suppose because being near you was beginning to make me very nervous . ’ |
28 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |