Example sentences of "made me [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Den it made me gu looking fe a job ,
2 It made me want to slap his face .
3 I liked him , and he was different from other boys , not at all pushy , except pushy to please I suppose , but even that was sweet in a way — it made me want to say , it 's all right , do n't fret so much , I 'm having a perfectly nice time , slow down .
4 I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself .
5 Something made me want to touch you .
6 That study , more than anything else probably , made me want to see what we could do in making services more adaptable and appropriate and comprehensive . ’
7 It made me want to go and live in San Francisco . ’
8 But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound .
9 ‘ Watching you wee-wee made me want to go , too , ’ she giggled .
10 But I suspect that the unhappiness at home threw me even deeper into my ornithology , and made me want to spend more and more time with birds .
11 Just looking at his fishy staring eyes and open mouth made me want to keep silent .
12 But his own political outlook was also vital : ‘ Those influences made me want to write a history of the game 's toilers , the hired labourers .
13 She makes you see reason — she made me want to smile more and drink less .
14 ‘ When I first saw the portrait , though the clasp did n't consciously register , my subconscious must have picked it up , because something I could n't pin down nagged at me , and made me want to look again . ’
15 It made me want to run out and play the first two albums post haste , which is no bad thing .
16 It made me want to throw up ! ’
17 It made me want to throw up .
18 ‘ I did n't until I met you , but loving you made me want to know how twins could be so different .
19 When the ‘ Robert Johnson , Father of the Delta Blues ’ album came out , that was one of the main things that made me want to play slide .
20 For a moment , Trish 's laughter made me regret leaving the chummy , easy-going atmosphere of Winston Street .
21 It was seeing his picture of ‘ Mountain Silence ’ made me long to see the darksome mountain-girt lake in its weird lonesomeness with an intense longing .
22 And it sounds ridiculous saying it now , but what eventually made me decide to move was when John Mayall brought horns into the BB line-up ; I was so dumb that I thought , ‘ If it 's horns , it 's not blues . ’
23 Eh , yeah regular army pay , great that 's really what made me decide to join the army , that was in the T A but I regulars .
24 Cos it was in with the electric bills , and I did n't want that , and that was one of the advantages that made me decide to have here , cos I knew that the heating was in with the rent .
25 A few weeks before I could n't have found Madeira on a map — now what I saw made me vow to return every year .
26 ‘ He gave me pride in meself and made me feel wanted .
27 Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible .
28 So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course .
29 The DHSS made me go to see them every day — I had a broken bone in my ankle but they still made me go every day !
30 The embarrassment made me postpone going to the clinics for weeks — until the last possible moment , in fact : the day before I was due to board the train that bore me off to this hotel room in Manchester .
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