Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] made i [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 2 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 5 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 6 | Suddenly he cut me short and took me round the room and made me look at things . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam . |
| 10 | She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’ |
| 11 | More than anything else it was the two essays Camus wrote evoking ‘ the great free love of nature and the sea ’ at Tipasa that made me come to Algeria . |
| 12 | Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace . |