Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] made i [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact .
2 Your capacity for trust made me wonder if perhaps … you , alone …
3 A sound from overhead made me look up .
4 ‘ I 'm not a particularly patient man , and the thought of lying flat on my back for weeks made me feel almost suicidal , and if it had n't been for your parents — well , suffice to say that they were marvellous — ’
5 But the memory of Mala in that half-embrace with Gharr made me wonder if she had not already … travelled beyond my reach .
6 The workshop session on the importance of the measurement and analysis of data made me understand the purpose of the charts and graphs displayed on office walls at Runcorn Heath .
7 The fellow 's smugness and unnecessary familiarity with Mala made me dislike him at once .
8 Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ .
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