Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] made [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he , he goes , he reckoned that , he reckoned that , that my blanket made him feel worse . |
| 2 | ‘ My parents made me do it . |
| 3 | On the other , my parents made me feel horrible , guilty . |
| 4 | When I was 19 my parents made me leave home , and after a series of disastrous relationships I became pregnant . |
| 5 | Or when Tom says , ‘ My teacher made me stay in today ’ , parents would do well to resist the temptation to answer , ‘ Now what have you done ? ’ , or ‘ I suppose you deserved it ’ , replies which would have inflamed his feelings . |
| 6 | My husband made me wait while I was in labour till a game finished ! |
| 7 | These neighbours had lived there for a number of years ; they knew Mrs Browning well , and what they told my husband made us feel rather small , and very inexperienced . |
| 8 | A jolt of pain in my head made me wonder whether it was such a good idea . |
| 9 | When I reached home , my wife made me promise never to go to sea again , and I thought my adventures had come to an end . |
| 10 | Er every night they used to play cards and when I was eighteen my father made me learn cards . |
| 11 | My father made me attend evening lectures for a time on sound , light , and heat — with no effect . ’ |
| 12 | The insanity of my reality made me feel stupid and powerless . |
| 13 | The woman who stamped my passport made me change money with her and she robbed me . |
| 14 | Even when we were at home , neighbours and friends from all parts of the country came to look at me , and my master made me work hard to amuse them . |
| 15 | My mother made me promise to have only one glass — and I 've had two already . " |
| 16 | My mother made me take up tap dancing , because I 'd got sparrow legs . |
| 17 | He poured out so much passion that she melted against him , completely willing , enslaved , and his hand moved impatiently to the zip of her dress , moving it down until the cool night air on her skin made her shiver . |
| 18 | He tried earnestly to look cheerful , but their words made him shake with fear , sweat and turn hot and cold . |
| 19 | Sometimes , when he thought he might die , as Eileen had died , some deep and insatiable curiosity about life and living in him , some craving to take with him a deeper knowledge of women and their essence made him long to lie in love with her , to taste the sweetness of her mystery , to see the world just once from a vantage point where the lost and lonely flesh that is man and woman comes together in a healing synthesis . |
| 20 | The markings about its eyes made it savage , wolf-like , but it was only a fox , more discomposed than she at the meeting . |
| 21 | The flash of hope in her eyes made him wish he could report a more substantial discovery than the meagre piece of intelligence he had to contribute . |
| 22 | She did , and the sudden flare of her eyes made him let her go . |
| 23 | Except that her figure made it look good anyway . |
| 24 | The intensity of her hate made him quail . |
| 25 | The warmth of the room after the icy street and its exertions made him feel sluggish . |
| 26 | In the Muslim world their impotence made them perfect harem guards and they rose to power as chamberlains , governors and even generals . |
| 27 | Facially the two men were very different , Kustow 's face blunt , Lever 's hawkish , but the similarity of dress and the starkness of their haircuts made them seem like brothers , or members of some strange cult . |
| 28 | Glimpses of her stories made her smile . |
| 29 | I kept them away by waving my sword in the air , but their wild cries frightened me , and the horrible smell from their bodies made me feel sick . |
| 30 | Sometimes her caprices made him behave as if he was . |