Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] made [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |
| 2 | As he held her from behind , Tom 's hips and thighs were solid against the thinly covered curves of her lower torso , and as usual the contact between them made her immediately weak and speechless . |
| 3 | What change of circumstances had come about which made them take an entirely different view ? |
| 4 | She coped with the frankly curious looks of the men , one of whom made her blush as he kissed her hand by saying , ‘ No wonder Ludo does not get out of bed in the morning . ’ |
| 5 | Apart from this , she was angry with Jamila for marrying Changez , the sight of whom made her feel ill . |
| 6 | The two of them made their way together towards the road with Caspar . |
| 7 | After the performance of Jimmy Shine , the two of them made their way from the theatre to the hotel where Dustin was staying . |
| 8 | Then , for the second time that evening , all three of them made their way to Puddephat 's window and let themselves into his rooms . |
| 9 | The touch of them made her heart turn over . |
| 10 | And well they , some of them made them themselves , some of them , they were supplied by the merchant . |
| 11 | Two of them made her feel , not old exactly , but as if life was passing her by They were the one from Joanne that said , " You 've reached a quarter century " and the one from Stephen , " My dearest wife " . |
| 12 | The sight of them made her feel old — old and soiled . |
| 13 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 14 | All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft . |
| 15 | Some of them made it and a lot of them did n't , and the agencies , particularly the photo agencies , exploited these people mercilessly . |
| 16 | I made it past I made it past there |
| 17 | Buzz spent the cab ride reminiscing about those times , some grim and some sad , but all of which made her smile . |
| 18 | As the rain gradually died away , birds began to fight and squabble like fractious children just allowed out after being cooped up indoors ; but then they did n't have leaky roofs ; neither did they have to climb up there as soon as it was light to inspect the damage ; or have a meeting with Leo , the thought of which made her feel weak inside . |
| 19 | The Hindus , he knew , at least refrained from eating pigs ( unlike the Chinese or the disgusting Christians of Byzantium ) , but he had heard that they had other habits the very thought of which made him swoon . |
| 20 | GRAHAM CHAPMAN and I wrote together almost full time between 1966 and 1973 , writes John Cleese , while producing sketches for The Frost Report , The 1948 Show and Monty Python , as well as several film scripts none of which made their way intact to the silver screen . |
| 21 | It had two wings , one of which made me think of a church . |
| 22 | He told me some hair-raising stories of the casual , careless way in which bodies can be handled at the undertaker 's and in transit , the most common being losing the coffin on the way to the funeral because the doors have not been properly secured or the wrong name-plates having been attached , resulting in great distress to the relations of the deceased and confusion for the minister concerned , all of which made our dealings with Nigel seem positively reverential ! |
| 23 | All of which made it impossible to explain exactly why she 'd been so upset to find , after arriving , tired and exhausted , at the large house in Lowndes Square , that she was going to see even less of Ross than she had in New York ? |
| 24 | Mary-Claude was sad to leave because , after spending much of the summer visiting her family with Sarah , she was not looking forward to an indefinite stay in Alabama , where she knew hardly anyone and where , after Beirut and Larnaca , the sheer difference in the scale of everything made her feel uneasy and exposed . |
| 25 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 26 | So , while that sane part of her made her half turn as though to return to her bedroom , that other part of her , the part that tingled and loved him , caused her then to delay — just for a moment . |
| 27 | She crawled along to it , and a moment later they were face to face through a large chink , Tristram grinning , his teeth white and his face sun-darkened , and the sight of him made her feel safe and loved again , as if she had arrived home . |
| 28 | The touch , the feel , the heat of him made her want to laugh and cry . |
| 29 | Just the sight of him made her go weak , ache , and the thought of never seeing him again , never being able to touch him , was a twisting pain in her heart . |
| 30 | The sight of him made her catch her breath . |