Example sentences of "[adv] make i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ( 128 ) Other women — they only made me love you more . |
| 3 | ‘ He only made me cry once , ’ she mumbled against his sweater . |
| 4 | The bridge was like a symbol which suddenly made me realise what is happening to that country . |
| 5 | ‘ Whatever you have to say will only make me feel uncomfortable . ’ |
| 6 | There was every possible opportunity and we discussed it ; he was keen but not importunate , which naturally made me love him more and be more inclined to give him what he was so sweetly not insisting on , but something held me back . |
| 7 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |
| 8 | Without warning she reached her hand sideways and took mine and pressed it , as if to give me courage ; and perhaps to make me identify her with the original , gentle Lily . |
| 9 | The reassuring cloud of honeysuckle around my front door , as I approach it , suddenly makes me stroke the reassuring beard around my mouth . |
| 10 | It only makes me want you all the more . |
| 11 | People describe me as ‘ hysterical' ; this only makes me feel worse . |
| 12 | But in the long run it only makes me feel worse about myself . |
| 13 | He smiled too , and stabbed me in the gut with the gun-barrel hard enough to make me suck in my breath . |
| 14 | The gloom that fell upon me was deep enough to make me want to die . |
| 15 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 16 | Almost , but not quite , enough to make me go and buy a set of reproduction Book-of-Hours Christmas cards from a small-format ‘ gift ’ catalogue … . |
| 17 | I put on a bit of make-up — not like before , not like a freak , just enough to make me feel respectable . |
| 18 | He paused just long enough to make me feel uncomfortable , then said : ‘ Very well . ’ |
| 19 | Malpass had told me a few more bits of the story ; not enough to know what was really going on but just enough to make me feel uncomfortable . |
| 20 | But the green smell used to be there and it was strong enough to make me think of English summers when I looked at the sky . |
| 21 | I smiled and her eyes smiled back enough to make me think the ice could just possibly melt there under the right circumstances . |
| 22 | I heard enough to make me think it worth my while to talk it over . |
| 23 | It was not a bad wound , but entirely enough to make me land badly and wrench my ankle . |
| 24 | It is not enough to make me forget that the owl remains elsewhere . |
| 25 | You think Ryan is proficient enough to make me forget you ? ’ |
| 26 | When Malpass did emerge , only a few seconds after the shots , it was dramatic enough to make me forget my churning stomach . |
| 27 | ‘ Enough to make me run from here incontinently , as I promise you I had a mind to do ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Enough to make me lose control of myself . ’ |
| 29 | She ran them down my arm lightly enough to make me shiver . |
| 30 | It was important enough to make me come up here to ask Dr Bailey about Christabel LaMotte . ’ |