Example sentences of "[noun pl] make me " in BNC.

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1 The glowing consumer reports about cycling the peaks and television commercials for aftershave showing hunky men rattling down sheer slopes of scree on bikes made me suspicious .
2 As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences .
3 The smell of bread and baigels freshly from the ovens made me hungry .
4 Crowds make me paranoid and claustrophobic but Tod seeks and loves the company of crowds .
5 In fact , the numbers of Punch aficionados make me worry that the same end will come to the comp complex as came to Punch .
6 ‘ The scripts make me sound very smart and I like that , ’ he said .
7 SIR — Gordon Taylor 's pleadings for his pampered First Division pets make me very angry .
8 Similar considerations make me sometimes decline to examine students from foreign parts .
9 Holmes ' warm words of thanks made me feel much happier , and I saw that he was right .
10 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 .
11 And she gave me an indulgent look and she said , ‘ I 'm really sorry , the pictures made me feel tender feelings for you , but they just really did not arouse me . ’
12 So it looks awfully fresh the wretches made me almost squashed it .
13 ‘ It must be my sins making me restless , unless it 's something I ate . ’
14 Ashamed of having frightened me , he looked at me sweetly and began to sing Italian songs to make me forget the incident ’ .
15 ‘ 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 .
16 She strokes its white flesh against her black cheek , then slides it into her red mouth and rolls her eyes to make me laugh , and I think , Jesus , is that what it 's like ?
17 ‘ In the same way as some people might go to church and seek absolution , accepting that I have confessed to these sins makes me feel better .
18 Certainly nothing happened in my personal experience in the last six or so months to make me change my mind about Labour unelectability .
19 Over the last few years I can admit to having heard enough of the individual experiences of examination candidates to make me totally cynical about a system which confers , supposedly , passes and grades of equal status on students in public examinations that cover so wide-ranging a diversity of structure and subject content .
20 The way he goes crunching into tackles makes me so glad I play with him and not against him .
21 I suppose my experiences and my burns made me both irritable and hasty , for I responded by flicking a sonic grenade at him , from another ring , that scrambled all his synapses .
22 On the other , my parents made me feel horrible , guilty .
23 ‘ My parents made me do it .
24 When I was 19 my parents made me leave home , and after a series of disastrous relationships I became pregnant .
25 But I got myself straightened out and I was in the mood then to write some words , get into being into the music , get the tunes making me groove . ’
26 ‘ I 'm not a particularly patient man , and the thought of lying flat on my back for weeks made me feel almost suicidal , and if it had n't been for your parents — well , suffice to say that they were marvellous — ’
27 But a desire to be fair , a wish to be absolutely certain , and an understandable reluctance to accuse someone of perfidy who has been a friend of mine for six difficult years made me pull the telephone back to my mouth .
28 These bands make me think of Robert Bridges ' poem of love , I Will Not Let Thee Go .
29 There was a lengthy pause before he admitted , ‘ An unhappy experience in my younger days made me too dogmatic about certain ideas that became stuck in my head .
30 These ideas make me think that creativity and beauty are linked .
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