Example sentences of "which [vb -s] me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The rich trash pay the bills , Mr Breakspear , which lets me give my spare time away to the poor trash . ’ |
| 2 | And yet , wrote Harsnet , it is this which excites me , this which makes me want to go on . |
| 3 | There is an inexplicable rightness about it which makes me want to look at it for ages . |
| 4 | Kirishima is nothing like Dana , but he has that male charisma which makes me want to lie in his arms — I feel safer just gloating over his superb body on the television screen . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is this point of political reassessment ; perhaps it is because I am mid-way through my life — the time when the past stretches widespread enough to contemplate , and the future is no longer infinite — which makes me want to catch memories . |
| 6 | Or perhaps it is all that rain which makes me want more water . |
| 7 | The Mermaid is frequented by the local fishermen for breakfasts and lunches , which makes me think its fish must be the freshest . |
| 8 | I find that I 'm questioning my own authority , which makes me think even more . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's something about its jizz which makes me think it 's a … ’ is a very handy phrase when only a brief glimpse of the bird has been caught . |
| 10 | It was built before the war , and I have a Shanks loo , which makes me think that the British must have had a hand in building it . |
| 11 | They think my Yorkshire accent is amusing , and Nicola , my boss , tells friends that I 'm ‘ from the country ’ , which makes me feel as if I 'm from another planet . |
| 12 | And I think this has been proved you know that ask when people have changed their minds and said I do n't know , that this is what has happened in the last er ten to fifteen years erm and which makes me feel that once again I think that advances can only be evolutionary erm I think that erm , I do n't know if you , anybody saw Joseph Conrad 's erm spy story on the television ? |
| 13 | It always strikes me when you see meths drinkers and imagine those people as children — they were all beautiful then , and it is simply an inexplicable phenomenon which makes me sit here and that other person is out there on the street . |
| 14 | ‘ It is not very much , ’ concedes Anna Perry , ‘ which makes me wonder why so many of these porters had been with us for so long . |
| 15 | Again it 's Bass , Mid and Treble and each pot has a recommended start setting of 12 o'clock to allow for cut or boost , which makes me wonder why these controls are labelled 0 to 10 — would n't -5 to +5 have been more sensible ? |
| 16 | which makes me wonder what it was |
| 17 | All of which makes me wonder how well this very American , sugar-pie world will translate to Europe . |
| 18 | It is no doubt the remembrance of these early days which makes me despise and dislike all primeurs , the fruit artificially grown , gathered too early and expensively sent , wrapped in cotton wool , to " smart " restaurants . |
| 19 | Well I 'll be wearing a distressed leather jacket , black jeans , a new short haircut which makes me look really hard and a large stomach . |
| 20 | I have had a Chinese hair-cut which makes me look slightly less like a fierce western barbarian to Chinese eyes , but I have kept my beard . |
| 21 | It is the waiting and his strange behaviour , she thought , which makes me shiver . |