Example sentences of "[adv] made [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Implicit within the ruling was the concept that once an abortion restriction had been upheld in one state , other states could implement it , an interpretation which effectively made it more difficult to challenge the imposition by individual states of restrictions as long as they were within the guidelines established by the Court 's ruling in June 1992 on Roe v. Wade [ see p. 38954 ] . |
| 2 | In fact , the wonderful night they had just shared only made her more determined than ever to go . |
| 3 | It was a sad thing to Beth , and one which only made her all the more determined to draw Matthew back into the family fold . |
| 4 | Unused to being argued with , he shouted and cursed at her , and soon the two of them were arguing fiercely , he having trouble making articulate sentences due to his excessive amount of drink , which only made him yet angrier . |
| 5 | In her heart , Beth sensed that he knew the way of things , and this only made him all the more determined to have a son of his own . |
| 6 | He went from her now , with that familiar slight limping stride that only made him more attractive . |
| 7 | She knew that the Princesse suspected her of having taken Andrzej as a lover , but that only made it all the more plausible . |
| 8 | Sturt , who would have been able to take a much faster and direct route , only made it as far as the western approaches to the bend , and was so hard-pressed by lack of water that he had to bleed a horse to survive . |
| 9 | The danger , as Andrei Gavrilov hints at elsewhere in this issue , is that the large emigration of musicians to the West that has taken place since restrictions were relaxed may mean that Russian musical life will lose those very qualities that not only made it technically of such high standing but that also gave it its unique flavour . |
| 10 | The threat of another war only made it more urgent for him to preserve his symbolic status , so that he could be the French people 's supreme recourse should catastrophe strike once again . |
| 11 | In fact , if anything , she only made it more prominent . |
| 12 | If anything , years of experience only made you more aware of what could go wrong . |
| 13 | Working so closely together made her more aware of him , not less . |
| 14 | Because I 'd passed the magical sixty years of age mark , I was now officially an old-age pensioner and that apparently made me technically ‘ vulnerable ’ under the provisions of the Homeless Persons Act . |
| 15 | The shape of his spine seemed to ask to be stroked , and his sharp intake of breath when she did so made her more aware suddenly of her own power to affect him . |
| 16 | This face of anxiety refined and narrowed the horse 's muzzle , and so made it more attractive for a photograph ! |
| 17 | These awful conditions naturally made it quite impossible to tell what was happening actually on Krakatoa , but it is thought that some milder explosive activity continued . |
| 18 | She got up early to muck him out and groom him and exercise him , and she babysat nearly every evening to keep him in good oats ( not Uncle Knacker 's ) and shoes , and when she saw the riders she was up against in the collecting ring , with their adoring parents and their fat cheque-books , it just made her all the more determined to beat them , because determination was all she had . |
| 19 | ‘ Take a sight test , ’ she advised tightly , and he flushed and apologised , which just made her more angry . |
| 20 | ‘ It was somewhat hard , I just made it somewhat harder . ’ |
| 21 | Norwich reformers agreed , claiming that amelioration properly carried through made them more long-suffering . |
| 22 | So what finally made you actually do something ? |
| 23 | He was so starry-eyed when he finally made it bedwards with true love Michelle Pfeiffer , he would n't have noticed if she 'd been wearing Dr Martens . |
| 24 | The prospect of joining his new unit alone somehow made it much less daunting . |
| 25 | Walking beside her now , he prayed she would not notice the peculiar tic that jerked his face into a spasm of nervous twitches and always made her so terribly angry . |
| 26 | They also made me extremely randy , an effect I pointed out to you , who seemed unaffected in that department and were astonished that they should stimulate my already overwrought sexuality — ‘ oversexed and under seventy ’ is how I still think of myself . |
| 27 | It also made him only the second man in history to score for both sides in a derby clash . |
| 28 | ‘ But coming off the medication also made him more aggressive . |
| 29 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 30 | It also made it more difficult to obtain maintenance — and this emphasised the stigma of bastardy . |