Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] made [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them .
2 Inevitably , as capitalism developed it made sense to introduce more machinery , to move to a division of labour and to a conveyor-belt system of production .
3 The men behind the election campaign admitted they made mistakes .
4 Aged 28 , Lesley claims not to be a natural competitor and in fact as a teenager dropped out of a PE teacher training course as she felt it made sport too serious and took the fun away .
5 He regretted the Ryans ' intractability because he felt it made Eileen unhappy .
6 He said he was nineteen years old ; he also said he was an orphan , but they all said that , they thought it made people pay more .
7 In the 1930s and 1940s several books on the Ferrars appeared which made use of unpublished papers in Cambridge .
8 The first thing he did he made friends amongst the young men in the college .
9 Says Chubby : ‘ One reporter said I made Bernard Manning look like Andy Pandy .
10 Nine out of 10 said it made sense to carry condoms ‘ just in case ’ .
11 The way he said it made Sally feel like a parcel for delivery .
12 Something in the way he said it made Coffin sure he was right .
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