Example sentences of "[noun sg] made [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This partially revived me after the £1,314 price tag made me feel faint . |
| 3 | The price tag made her wince . |
| 4 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
| 5 | What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ? |
| 6 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 7 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 8 | he , he goes , he reckoned that , he reckoned that , that my blanket made him feel worse . |
| 9 | An angry exclamation made her wince . |
| 10 | The abruptness of the change made him shudder . |
| 11 | Her calm , lazy response made him laugh . |
| 12 | I had another coffee ; I was confused , irritable and dizzy as I stood by the buffet and watched the station cleaners , suddenly desperate to be on my way before tiredness made me change my mind . |
| 13 | Money made me gu out an rob |
| 14 | Their ugly faces and unpleasant smell made me feel quite ill . |
| 15 | Cos mum made me laugh tonight but she came in and she said oh you can have a hot cross bun there , I said well I think I 'll have a piece of chocolate cake and she said alright then ! |
| 16 | Mum made me go into town with her to spend my Christmas money on clothes . |
| 17 | His mum made him wear sensible shoes ( bit of an admission , this ) . |
| 18 | His Mum made him sit on one of the chairs that were all round the walls and look at the magazines . |
| 19 | That bit made me think even then . |
| 20 | You know , you know what bit made me laugh ? |
| 21 | The experience made me realize that there is more to speechreading/ lip-reading than meets the eye . |
| 22 | A hollow wooden noise made him turn his head . |
| 23 | A sudden noise made him turn . |
| 24 | It took a moment to accustom herself to the dim light inside , but as she entered a slight noise made her turn . |
| 25 | My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie . |
| 26 | Our traditional British reserve made them think we were very hostile and resented them being here , and their extrovert camaraderie we regarded as showing off . |
| 27 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 28 | The sight of him standing there smoking made me realize how little any of us in Benedict 's knew what he was really like as a man , once out of the defensive armour of his white coat . |
| 29 | Theodora judged her to be in her early forties , though the thin face and fair , wispy hair made her look younger . |
| 30 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |