Example sentences of "[noun prp] made i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ William made me sell it . |
| 2 | Then after Sir Henry had gone to-his room , Holmes made me stand in front of the picture . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | But the memory of Mala in that half-embrace with Gharr made me wonder if she had not already … travelled beyond my reach . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | The study of the Buddha made me feel that I was in the presence of a very great religious teacher , a man of great compassion , who diagnosed man 's original trouble as greed , desire , attachment , the escape from which was the treading of the Noble Eightfold Path . |
| 8 | ‘ The problems of distribution and the various changes that we had to make to establish ourselves in Scotland made me think that if I just swung the compass I 'd land up in Paris . ’ |
| 9 | Moustaine made me stand up and slapped me across the eyes with his leather gloves . |
| 10 | Well then Pam made me laugh cos the tiler he , she said he 's go up on the roof and he 's there for hours ! |
| 11 | There are cases like ( 141 ) , where make evokes a form of coercion : ( 147 ) — " Big Hans made me come . |
| 12 | The fellow 's smugness and unnecessary familiarity with Mala made me dislike him at once . |
| 13 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 14 | Tommaso made me look like a mature man , an important man . |
| 15 | The DHSS made me go to see them every day — I had a broken bone in my ankle but they still made me go every day ! |
| 16 | The skills of the midwives were everything I could have wished for and the NCT made me feel as if I was a useful part of the whole process . |
| 17 | His piece The ‘ Magic ’ Boots made me smile in reminiscence , since I was one of those with him on that occasion — the weekend in Langdale when Brasher Boots were launched on an unsuspecting world . |
| 18 | ‘ Liz made me stop . |
| 19 | ‘ Being here in Majorca made me think of Seville . |
| 20 | Oh Shrimpy made me laugh me about it cracks me up like ! |
| 21 | Pride made me disguise this . |
| 22 | Ryan made me promise never to tell you . ’ |
| 23 | I was starving ; it was hours since either of us had eaten but Mrs Lewis made me wash my hands before sitting at the table . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd guessed Donna had a twin sister — somewhere — and I — oh , I know this sounds silly , but I 've been thinking about it , ever since the transplant was mentioned , before Juliet made me realise who she ws . |
| 25 | Steve made me laugh he said we 'll have some mushrooms so me showing off I said erm , how much , how much did I , a kilo , a kilo of mushrooms when I come back I got |
| 26 | Maria Luisa made me swear I would never tell anyone and I did because she needed to trust someone . |
| 27 | Cob Bevan made me loathe Latin , and as a result of his tuition Latin verse remained incomprehensible to me . |
| 28 | Michael made me write the letter — three men are coming to kill you — three of the Six ! |