Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 61 | And I believe that with the privileges that come to those who benefit most from the capitalist system there are obligations , and so the combination of that latter thought makes me want to do something about the inner cities , plus a revulsion at waste and hopelessness and dereliction and concern which is self-evident in some of these older towns and cities . |
| 62 | I hate it when people cry , cos it makes me want to do the same thing . |
| 63 | It made me want to slap his face . |
| 64 | I do n't know how they 've done it but the typography on the signs makes me want to pronounce the word Edin-burg , and I live in the place , for God 's sake . |
| 65 | I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself . |
| 66 | but when I was eleven years old I did n't look at the sixth form and do jus just because they were doing something I wanted to do it , I might have admired them but if they were smoking that would n't make me want to smoke . |
| 67 | ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later . |
| 68 | ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later . |
| 69 | ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later . |
| 70 | ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later . |
| 71 | Just looking at his fishy staring eyes and open mouth made me want to keep silent . |
| 72 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
| 73 | That makes me want to believe . |
| 74 | 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 . |
| 75 | You have n't shocked me , you have n't horrified me , you have n't made me want to cry yet |
| 76 | But being happy always makes me want to buy things . |
| 77 | It makes me want to kiss them . ’ |
| 78 | There is an inexplicable rightness about it which makes me want to look at it for ages . |
| 79 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 80 | 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 . |
| 81 | I am a great fan of rave music yet the lyrics have never made me want to try the drug . |
| 82 | It makes me want to bring sanity into an insane land . |
| 83 | ‘ My mother , ’ said Bernard , suddenly , talkative at last , ‘ is a mean-spirited , disgusting bitch ; a big fat mammy , and to think that I was born from between her legs makes me want to vomit . |
| 84 | Even the inside of a plastic bag makes me want to vomit , with its musty smell of lumber or the back room of a small shop . |
| 85 | Queasy from 40ml and smack and so much wine , his stench makes me want to vomit . |
| 86 | It just makes me want to vomit the way she does that . |
| 87 | ‘ I did n't until I met you , but loving you made me want to know how twins could be so different . |
| 88 | But I repeated them in Ezra Pound. : Poet as Sculptor , and nothing that has come to my notice since , including an erudite and adulatory article on these cantos by David Gordon in Paideuma 4 ( 1975 ) , has made me want to retract my words or change my mind . |
| 89 | I just find those subject the easiest to deal with : on the one hand , they 're the most tangible feelings I have to pull out of myself ; on the other , they make me want to make a stronger statement when I ultimately do that . |
| 90 | 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 . |