Example sentences of "[conj] made i " in BNC.

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1 made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being
2 I tried an abortive term at Durham University Drama Department and that made me realise even more that I wanted the real thing ; by then I had , in any case , worked the AIM stint and I did n't need theory ; I wanted practice .
3 I return to the earth that made me .
4 I realized I just had to accept him for what he was , and when I learnt to do that , he did the same to me - accepted me without question , in all my imperfection , in all that made me unworthy of him .
5 It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one .
6 It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all .
7 It must have been the totality of the situation that made me feel that heaven was very near and the invisible clearly seen .
8 That was the obsession that made me write this . ’
9 This presented a thought that made me shudder with fright : this awesome , eerie world-apart in the dead of night , unbearably cold , no moon or stars , merely the moan of the mysterious gods beneath the ice …
10 Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love .
11 It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men .
12 I had ‘ flu ’ at the time , and perhaps that made me rather jaundiced .
13 It was a reunion at Bath that made me decide .
14 So I was abnormal — a sort of mini Dracula or Frankenstein 's monster , and that made me even more guilty .
15 I was clearly a bad child and that made me even more guilty .
16 The first I new was Chris 's sudden , shocked screaming , with an urgency that made me drop what I was doing and run across the room to the open verandah .
17 ‘ You tied up a little bit towards the end , ’ said Ron , and that made me feel good .
18 As we stepped out of the plane at Madrid airport the heat hit us like an oven , and that made me feel very good indeed .
19 It was that , initially , that made me so mad .
20 It was that inner voice that made me cringe as I lay sleepless on my lumpy mattress listening to the pogoing of the bedstead against the wall next door , where my co-tenants were pursuing their nightly quest for the elusive grail of Trish 's orgasm .
21 ‘ Gosh , that made me feel so much better — being told the whole world is in recession ! ’
22 And though he was never to make such almost innocent remarks again , and though Eva and Dad continued to want to make love all the time , and I caught her giggling while she did idiotic things with him , like snipping the hair in his ears and nostrils with a huge pair of scissors , there were looks that escaped all possible policing , looks that made me think he was capable only of a corrupted happiness .
23 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 .
24 But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound .
25 The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet .
26 I 'd swap my vest and plasters for a Marks and Spencer circle-stitched bra , a rigid , pointed contraption that made me look as if I had a couple of ice-cream cones up my jumper : I could never fill them to the end ( not even on a good day ) and the last waltz would result in dents in the ends .
27 The audience were a comic 's dream and when Dennie came back on stage and whispered ‘ two minutes to count-down ’ I ran off to applause that made me feel like Mike Tyson .
28 ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’
29 ‘ The selectors have made their decisions concerning the squad and nobody is going to knock on my door again unless I recapture the form that made me No 1 .
30 PICTURE THAT MADE ME SICK AT Lord Spencer 's funeral , Diana reached for Lady Spencer 's arm .
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