Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she took off her glasses the sun caught her eyes and made them flash like green torches . |
| 2 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 3 | It was an odd shade of reddish gold and , coupled with their tanned complexions and slanted eyes , made them look like young eagles . |
| 4 | The women 's hats and bright make-up made them look like exotic birds . |
| 5 | To some observers , the new generations who were born into this environment appeared stunted and uncouth ; their cheap clothing and strange variations on the English language made them seem like another species , almost subhuman . |
| 6 | He made me dress in erotic underwear and to dress as his sex slave . |
| 7 | They made me feel of some value again and the warmth was flooding through me long before the kettle had boiled on the iron stove in the corner . |
| 8 | This made me feel in later life that I was very unattractive , because I had had so many negative thoughts about my appearance earlier in my life . |
| 9 | It made me think of that voodoo thing which hangs round graveyards and wears a top hat . ’ |
| 10 | The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam . |
| 11 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 12 | ‘ You made me rise to that bait , did n't you ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | She let him go without further protest . |
| 15 | He paused a moment , and when he found that the horse was no longer rebellious , and only impatient to gallop , he let him go at full speed . |
| 16 | The court heard Bedworth , now a student at Edinburgh University studying artificial intelligence , spent hours sitting in his bedroom mastering a £200 Christmas present which helped him hack into hi-tech systems . |
| 17 | Mike let her go with rueful amusement in his dark eyes as she made her way towards the lift , having refused all offers of help with her overnight bag , which she slung over one shoulder . |
| 18 | She ‘ let her mask of moderate respectability slip yesterday ’ , it says . |
| 19 | Shouldering the gun in the sure knowledge that the Doctor would be seriously pissed off if she let it fall into local hands in this time zone , she drew the grenade from her pockets , and poked her head up just long enough to check the distance . |
| 20 | ‘ What made you decide on this trip ? ’ |
| 21 | What made you jump at that moment ? |
| 22 | At first , so Coleridge improbably claimed , Walsh thought he had been found out : ‘ for he heard me talk of one Spy Nozy , which he was inclined to interpret of himself , and of a remarkable feature belonging to him ’ . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman heard me say on numerous occasions when the Environmental Protection Bill was being considered in Committee that it was under strength . |
| 24 | I heard you talk about this hotel . |
| 25 | You 're in the hall you heard one shout of armed police . |
| 26 | She heard him reach for another sandwich . |
| 27 | I heard him say at one gathering that there were certain things he thought ought to be done , and he was going to do them , whether people followed him or not . |
| 28 | A sudden shout made her look to one side . |
| 29 | It made him think about last night 's events . |
| 30 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |