Example sentences of "[vb past] it made " in BNC.

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1 The people who created it made themselves the masters of the Greek-speaking world within two centuries .
2 Now , she found it made her preen .
3 As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them .
4 The continuing failure of Labour to present a distinctive alternative to the Tories was indicated strikingly in the opinion poll finding that 40 per cent of electors believed it made no difference which party was in power .
5 She passed the streamer to another woman who did the same and each woman who received it made a statement of her sorrow , culminating with a young woman who spoke , with tears running down her face , of her fears for her children .
6 The writer has collected three instances of this practice : two in the Stowmarket district and one near Mendlesham where the farmer who recalled it made the comment after the cold and wet spring of 1963 : ‘ I do n't know how those owd bors who used to set on the seed-bed would get on today : I reckon they 'd get themselves right chilled . ’
7 Inevitably , as capitalism developed it made sense to introduce more machinery , to move to a division of labour and to a conveyor-belt system of production .
8 He saw it made her think for a moment , about him .
9 Lost most people with a powerful central theme to their life , Gedge had to adopt an obstinate approach as The Wedding Present became successful and during their two-year relationship , Debbie Kaye felt it made him self-centred .
10 Aged 28 , Lesley claims not to be a natural competitor and in fact as a teenager dropped out of a PE teacher training course as she felt it made sport too serious and took the fun away .
11 He regretted the Ryans ' intractability because he felt it made Eileen unhappy .
12 The picaresque vitality of Richardson 's novel begins to wane early in the third volume ( a frequent fate of follow-ups ) and , as a theatre audience does not have the opportunity to plough through stodgy bits in their own time , we felt it made for better drama to kill Pamela ( in the novel she comes near to death ) before the dramatic conflict itself dies .
13 Though I had always disliked Christmas , because I knew it made my mother unhappy for some reason , that was one Christmas when I was happy , and I have never forgotten it .
14 She knew it made no sense , but the idea of Vitor being married and having children was oddly discomfiting .
15 He said he was nineteen years old ; he also said he was an orphan , but they all said that , they thought it made people pay more .
16 The bathroom — which was lavish even by Mayfair standards — was all glass and cool , muted blues , which had looked lovely when she had put it in , but which she now thought was cold and vaguely forbidding , and as she pulled off her pyjama top , she thought it made her flesh look white and dead .
17 I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy .
18 I zipped back along the M20 , letting Armstrong have his head as I thought it made a nice change for him not to plod through heavy traffic at ten miles an hour .
19 And th there there was a cartoon in the paper in the week I thought it made me smile really .
20 SOMERSET County Cricket Club yesterday announced it made a profit of £82,612 during the last year , although chief executive Peter Anderson warned that the county is still in debt .
21 I think for me I love erm er er er I love a challenge , and er I suspect the fact that before I went into it people said it was erm something which was erm absolutely impossible er er and that the their was no way that one could make a go of it erm made it made it made it perhaps all the more challenging to try to prove them wrong .
22 I think for me I love erm er er er I love a challenge , and er I suspect the fact that before I went into it people said it was erm something which was erm absolutely impossible er er and that the their was no way that one could make a go of it erm made it made it made it perhaps all the more challenging to try to prove them wrong .
23 oh it made it made a nice change .
24 Any other things that made it made it difficult for you to read ?
25 The way he put it made it sound like an order .
26 But the note that accompanied it made no mention of the choice of name and it was rather a cold note .
27 He looked very young and , she was surprised how irritated it made her feel , innocent .
28 He said it made you sick to look at it .
29 They agreed that the letter about which Clarissa was so upset must be from the War Office , and Peregrine said it made him feel almost cowardly to have survived the German breakthrough , the evacuation of the beaches and now this latest blow on the very day the capitulation of France was announced .
30 He wanted to call her ‘ Mam ’ , the way he had a long time ago , but she said it made her feel middle-aged and dull and ordinary , so he must never say it again , especially when other people were around .
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