Example sentences of "made [pron] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The central position which the Communists occupied in these campaigns was a result of their international connections , which made them appear as the principal opponents of Fascism .
2 He made them sound like the Famous Five
3 He made them sound like the Famous Five .
4 ‘ Handiman made everyone think about the handicapped person in their family that it 's easy to deny , ’ says Damon , who may have found the character 's roots in his own childhood club foot .
5 There were times when Joanna 's somewhat footslogging performance made me long for the thoroughbred feel of Lisa , but I had an affection for Joanna and she had one advantage over Lisa — her small cuddy where I could cook and sleep , and be independent of the land .
6 I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week .
7 They made me go through the whole thing three times , though I had hardly anything to tell them .
8 The pale blue tights , moulded over bulging thighs , of the male trapeze artists , that made you think about the flattened bulge between their legs .
9 Miss Bruce 's distaste for innovation made itself manifest in the dreary proposals served up to the Conservative and Labour governments in the seventies — whenever a request for names for public duties arrived in her in-tray , the same roll-call of has-beens fell out of her out-tray .
10 He made one tour in the early 1830s , when already ill and enfeebled .
11 We made one change for the second week of interviewing .
12 It made him long for the open fields of the island , again .
13 She took him into the living-room and made him sit in the black leather armchair .
14 The lepers made him think about the two who lurked in the cemetery of St Erconwald .
15 Perhaps it was these journeys that made him realise to the full how many of the world 's species were on the brink of extinction .
16 Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in .
17 As for Forrester , Whelan , Bowman etc I got the impression that it was more desparation that made him turn to the younger players , granted their performances were top notch but I think the injury situation had more to do with it than Wilko 's judgement , after all where are they now ? ? ?
18 As I said last week , he c he er made it appear to the British that he s sought to control the channel ports and with a large navy was then capable of interfering with our trade and in in indeed mounting an invasion , and that brought Britain into a war which could not be ended until the Germans sued for surrender and vice versa .
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