Example sentences of "[noun] make [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was easy to convince him of his worthlessness-to make him believe he was capable of such an act . |
| 2 | Fairbank 's contribution to handwriting made him known to a larger public . |
| 3 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 4 | With the decision made she felt a kind of temporary peace . |
| 5 | This partially revived me after the £1,314 price tag made me feel faint . |
| 6 | The price tag made her wince . |
| 7 | Till the Union made them acquainted with English manners , the culture of their lands was unskilful , and their domestic life unformed ; their tables were coarse as the feasts of Eskimeaux , and their houses as filthy as the cottages of Hottentots . ’ |
| 8 | That was impossible , because the heat and the champagne made her feel dizzy , till she felt she could hardly concentrate . |
| 9 | She was tired , emotionally and physically tired , and the champagne made her cease to worry about whether she was right to allow the Burgermeister to cosset her with flowers and champagne . |
| 10 | The Nobel had afforded only a temporary alleviation of this condition : indeed , the abbreviated stay in Princeton , the rush back to England , and the trip to Stockholm made him feel worse rather than better . |
| 11 | The other major discovery that Magnus made he called the ‘ righting reflex ’ . |
| 12 | Perhaps the presence of her young mistress made her desist from talk ; Emily would address her in high tones as a servant , no more , although the woman was her only companion . |
| 13 | But the lingering memory of the ghostly horse and a nervousness which could n't be denied at the thought of meeting the Danbys made her feel more than a little awkward . |
| 14 | On this occasion , Anthony d'Offay made one bid of $100,000 but the reserve had been set at a higher level . |
| 15 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 16 | Her work refuses any concession to polite conventions of ‘ good taste ’ , indeed her fleshy pinks and pulsing reds make us squirm with embarrassed recognition , reminding us of the ‘ nasty ’ things we do at home — after the guests have gone . |
| 17 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
| 18 | The man who , up to then , had experienced 18 years as a player at the highest level revealed how the sack made him determined to prove he had not suddenly become second rate . |
| 19 | What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ? |
| 20 | The now familiar palpitating flutter in her heart made itself felt and the blood drummed unpleasantly in her head so that she feared she might lose her senses . |
| 21 | Georgina 's civility made her feel queasy . |
| 22 | Kelly made her escape . |
| 23 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 24 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 25 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 26 | he , he goes , he reckoned that , he reckoned that , that my blanket made him feel worse . |
| 27 | An angry exclamation made her wince . |
| 28 | The abruptness of the change made him shudder . |
| 29 | Swindon made it count too . |
| 30 | Her calm , lazy response made him laugh . |