Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This partially revived me after the £1,314 price tag made me feel faint . |
| 2 | What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ? |
| 3 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 4 | I had another coffee ; I was confused , irritable and dizzy as I stood by the buffet and watched the station cleaners , suddenly desperate to be on my way before tiredness made me change my mind . |
| 5 | Money made me gu out an rob |
| 6 | Their ugly faces and unpleasant smell made me feel quite ill . |
| 7 | Cos mum made me laugh tonight but she came in and she said oh you can have a hot cross bun there , I said well I think I 'll have a piece of chocolate cake and she said alright then ! |
| 8 | Mum made me go into town with her to spend my Christmas money on clothes . |
| 9 | That bit made me think even then . |
| 10 | You know , you know what bit made me laugh ? |
| 11 | The experience made me realize that there is more to speechreading/ lip-reading than meets the eye . |
| 12 | My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie . |
| 13 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 14 | The sight of him standing there smoking made me realize how little any of us in Benedict 's knew what he was really like as a man , once out of the defensive armour of his white coat . |
| 15 | His look made me feel guilty , though I could n't think why it should . |
| 16 | Mum helped me put my clothes in the drawer . |
| 17 | Just looking at his fishy staring eyes and open mouth made me want to keep silent . |
| 18 | ‘ Flaming June ’ , people muttered bitterly amid the cascades of rain , and the thought of the poor men who must be waiting to set out across the choppy Channel in their small boats to fight a bloody battle on the other side made me feel cold and sick . |
| 19 | Teaching practice made me feel a lot less dispirited . |
| 20 | Lady Augusta xenophobically added : ‘ … a sort of national prejudice made me attribute the grace and dignity of the scene , for what there was of either came from her , to the blood of Kirkpatrick ! ! ! ’ , a reference to Eugénie 's Scottish grandfather |
| 21 | His reply made me love him even more , if that were possible : ‘ If you stay , I stay . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I was attracted to it because the script made me laugh and it 's a splendid play . |
| 23 | Would you believe that the sight of her in that condition made me feel differently about her ? |
| 24 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 25 | Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground . |
| 26 | His cruel and callous comments about the murder made me shiver . |
| 27 | The humiliation made me shudder . |
| 28 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 29 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 30 | An Anglo-Catholic priest helped me accept the desert experiences of prayer — no-one had ever told me , after an experience of personal renewal , to expect the stripping and refining that was not a falling from grace but a growth in it . |