Example sentences of "[noun prp] made [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The other major discovery that Magnus made he called the ‘ righting reflex ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On this occasion , Anthony d'Offay made one bid of $100,000 but the reserve had been set at a higher level . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Kelly made her escape . |
| 8 | Swindon made it count too . |
| 9 | ‘ William made me sell it . |
| 10 | Marc made her feel as if she 'd just had a battle with a steamroller — but she was mildly pleased with herself . |
| 11 | Then after Sir Henry had gone to-his room , Holmes made me stand in front of the picture . |
| 12 | The last time I saw her was when Benedict Joseph shoved her into his car outside the Villa Fiesole , and Philippe made me go with him to Nice . ’ |
| 13 | All day and then he got all to do at lunch time yeah they kept it up all the day , they had separate play time , they had had to eat their lunch in the class room all they were allowed was a piece of fruit , a bread and water and they all had to have , you know , they had a bread roll supplied by the school an a an apple I think And Jan made them write out their names and some of them could n't write their name ! |
| 14 | Even talking about Friedrich made her catch her breath , swallow , bring the shutter down in her head . |
| 15 | Charles ' suspicions of Dr Lefeuvre made him think his address was already common knowledge . |
| 16 | A shout from David made her start . |
| 17 | Shortly before Event finally closed , Branson made one last telephone call to Tony Elliott . |
| 18 | At the end of the day , however , Celtic just about deserved their triumph , though Dundee made them fight every inch of the way . |
| 19 | Binding me with his confidences , he said that the wonderfully athletic , Aryan rear view of Steffi Graf made him understand how the camp inmates could believe they were indeed Untermenschen in relation to the SS . |
| 20 | The clear autumn day drew to a close and Corbett made them rest their horses for a while . |
| 21 | ‘ Howey made one mistake , but he has had a tremendous season so far and I have no need to worry about him . |
| 22 | But the memory of Mala in that half-embrace with Gharr made me wonder if she had not already … travelled beyond my reach . |
| 23 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
| 24 | Ebert made us go to the dressing-rooms after the fight . |
| 25 | Peterborough made them fight every inch of the way . |
| 26 | Joy made one last desperate attempt and produced the most horrendous squeak ever , like a hare caught by a harvest scythe . |
| 27 | But as the fear of invasion receded and the public outrage at the scandals of the Arandora Star and the Dunera made itself known , refugees moved up in the War Office estimation . |
| 28 | You are as tough as Miss Lockwood made you sound . |
| 29 | ‘ Once Stalin made me dance the Gopak , squat down on my haunches and kick out my heels , ’ writes Khrushchev , an image hard to call up in view of his shape , but — ‘ When Stalin says ‘ Dance ’ , a wise man dances , ’ added the peasant proverb-spinner in his accustomed vein . |
| 30 | Ruth made herself smile . |