Example sentences of "made [pers pn] [vb infin] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combination of the sophisticated impresario with his driving ambition and the outspoken Newcastle woman with her earthy language and manner to match , made them appear a strange couple . |
| 2 | Until the Annan Committee knocked BBC and ITV heads together and made them run a joint system of audience measurement , ITV relied mainly on counting the number of sets switched on and the BBC used sample surveys and audience ‘ diaries ’ . |
| 3 | Personal experiences made them reject the new truism that the children of fatherless families become delinquent . |
| 4 | He was terrific and made me realise the only reason I had these thoughts was because of the enormous love I have for you . |
| 5 | ‘ She made me walk straight and tall again , made me feel a complete man with her excellently designed footwear , ’ he had boomed . |
| 6 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 7 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 8 | It made me take a good look at what I really wanted out of men and dating . |
| 9 | ‘ They made me look a risky proposition until Terry Butcher gave me a chance at Coventry . |
| 10 | Something made me snatch the woolly choirboy from its metal gallows ( even at that moment I noticed its surprising weight ) . |
| 11 | It was that that made me see the other side of him . |
| 12 | ‘ So what made you desert the sinking ship before the party was over ? |
| 13 | And yet , says Renate Olins surprising positives may emerge : one initially devastated client in counselling began to reflect that her husband had started to play around because it made him feel a bigger man . |
| 14 | With Caliban it 's as if somebody made him drink a whole bottle of whisky . |
| 15 | In four areas local conditions made him favour a unitary approach and the same authority would , therefore , ‘ exercise both regional and district responsibilities ’ ( Senior 1969 : 159 ) . |
| 16 | They did it , very slowly and tenderly , and then drove on again ; and then Boy made him stop the second time , in a layby with the first lorry headlights going past , and the man took Boy 's cock in his mouth again , and masturbated Boy again so that he came a second time , and then they drove again . |
| 17 | However , the Canadian who stole the stuff turned up in the middle of the night with a revolver , took all the money my father had , and made him unload the entire cargo . |
| 18 | This made him see the great urgency of persuading ‘ such ignorant , presumptuous and careless sinners as the world aboundeth with ’ to repent and believe in Christ . |
| 19 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 20 | At least one landing craft commander was for ‘ giving her the gun ’ to speed the tense minutes as they approached the enemy shore , but Lieutenant-Colonel John Durnford-Slater ( Commanding Officer of 3 Commando ) made him maintain a steady speed . |
| 21 | He got a little overtime and he made it go a long way . |
| 22 | Being a fanatic nonsmoker and health freak , he made us enact the ritual funeral of a cigarette end . |