Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other . |
| 2 | A teacher at the junior high school in the town of Kizu made them hold negative and positive terminals while he turned on an electric current . |
| 3 | What if it made them go deeper ? |
| 4 | She looked different with her hair cut and it made them feel shy . |
| 5 | The more able in the group felt they ‘ could n't tell us anything we do n't already know ’ or they were ‘ depressing ’ , while the remainder said that they did not like them because they made them feel inadequate . |
| 6 | The audience , too , was painfully hungry and yet in the presence of food which was not apparently destined for their stomachs ; this made them feel weak and peevish . |
| 7 | Probably Dizzy 's gang , keeping out of the way in case the sight of others working made them feel weak . |
| 8 | Telling the poorer workers that others were producing more , simply led to demoralisation ; they already knew that , and telling them so only made them feel worse . |
| 9 | Whether that made them feel better , one will never know . |
| 10 | Working alongside such eroticism made them feel awkward . |
| 11 | It was found that some aromas made people feel drowsy , others made them feel uplifted or even euphoric . |
| 12 | They concluded that by taking people out of their own homes , however modest , they were being removed from conditions which they knew and made them feel secure into ‘ a new social environment in which priority is given to the collectivity over the individual . ’ |
| 13 | Stepping out made them feel bold and confident and strong . |
| 14 | ‘ Pineapple pyramids : I always felt that the Jews made them to mourn all the slaves before them that the Egyptians had broken with building their mighty pyramids . ’ |
| 15 | Acquiring the products to be exported from India was not so simple ; the Company directors had to put down the ‘ investment ’ , mostly in silver bullion though public pressure made them include some English products as well , and had to finance a good deal of the running costs of the textile production that they were encouraging . |
| 16 | Rebel Males by Graham McCann ( Hamish Hamilton , £10.99 ) — Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando and James Dean , the subjects of this literate and readable study , pioneered a new kind of rebel as screen hero : they exuded primeval , ambiguous sexuality , and were not afraid of roles that made them look vulnerable , foolish or insecure . |
| 17 | A dull sheen just on the curve of each shoe 's toe instantly made them look solid . |
| 18 | ‘ I could n't live with myself if I sent someone on their way with an outfit that made them look awful . ’ |
| 19 | Made them look old before their time . |
| 20 | It shows that about three-quarters of the male respondents replied that the tax system had no influence on their work effort , 15 per cent replied that it made them work more and 11 per cent that it made them work less . |
| 21 | Married men with children were the group most likely to reply that taxation made them work more hours . |
| 22 | For it seemed to him that the benches and bin he suddenly saw were bigger than normal and that behind them there loomed not the curves and familiar shapes of the black-painted Victorian Cages , but greater shapes that pointed darkly to the sky as mist enshrouded them in grey and made them seem alive . |
| 23 | But there was something about them , maybe their mohair suits , maybe the hard men they imported from Glasgow or maybe their bonding as brothers that made them seem glamorous . |
| 24 | Well some of the questions you think erm you think erm you know , are n't they a bit well way out or what made them ask that . |
| 25 | they 've made it so as it , it do , you see I , I , I reckon you ought to open my let me make them in te in steel because er they made them like that so that when you pull them off or adjust them |
| 26 | But Graham and Russell , if anything more composed , made them defend that advantage , and the Chelsea defence responded with a disorder to which only Ken Monkou was an exception . |
| 27 | Often he made them criticize each other 's work . |
| 28 | It made them Feel big , boosted their egos . |
| 29 | Jean-Claude expected me to respect all his fads — especially the fuss and nonsense about the particular brand of coffee-beans he must have , and how he had to grind them himself , give the machine at least one hundred turns , sit comfortably . |
| 30 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |