Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . ’ |
| 32 | It made me want to go and live in San Francisco . ’ |
| 33 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 34 | ‘ Watching you wee-wee made me want to go , too , ’ she giggled . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Just looking at his fishy staring eyes and open mouth made me want to keep silent . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | She makes you see reason — she made me want to smile more and drink less . |
| 39 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 40 | It made me want to run out and play the first two albums post haste , which is no bad thing . |
| 41 | It made me want to throw up ! ’ |
| 42 | It made me want to throw up . |
| 43 | ‘ I did n't until I met you , but loving you made me want to know how twins could be so different . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | For a moment , Trish 's laughter made me regret leaving the chummy , easy-going atmosphere of Winston Street . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . ’ |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | ‘ He gave me pride in meself and made me feel wanted . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 ! |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | Mama made me promise to feed you before she agreed to go to bed . |
| 57 | Before he went out , he made me promise to give you this . ’ |
| 58 | She made me promise to destroy them , ‘ if anything ever happens to me ’ , she said . |
| 59 | Other times she made me promise to keep them for ever , to remember her by , and say a prayer She was a bit vague who it was I was to pray to . |
| 60 | ‘ He just asked how you were , made me promise to keep an eye on you , then rang off , ’ she said , frowning . |