Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] i [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 They were guilty as hell over the East German business and made me look a fool .
2 It was pure chance that made me notice the writing on the top file , as I pushed open the window .
3 Is this a mating ritual or do I have a pair of schizos in the tank ?
4 I have a folding mac that makes me look like a haystack in the rain , I have an umbrella that would fit most of Dublin under it . ’
5 By Christ and Leonard I shall love no failing clerk nor do I care to receive a clerk within the house nor on the floor ; let him keep his arse outside the door !
6 Because I just in my normal sort of intelligent way asked the librarian to come up with lots of cuttings on environmental health and let me have a quick little read , this was probably about twenty to three or something you know I probably needed about three weeks to do it .
7 So Judge — gave us a 21-month suspended sentence and let me walk out the court .
8 Alec wore a navy-blue romper suit — the outfit of a French workman , or indeed that of some little new-wave narcissist at a C. L. & S. screening It was the sight of him in his issued clothing that made me sense just how far he had fallen .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam .
12 The only thing that makes me doubt that is that the general proposition underlying it appears to have received some incoherent support from the Leader of the Opposition .
13 It was foolish hurt pride that made me behave so coldly towards you .
14 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 .
15 He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year .
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