Example sentences of "[pron] that [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I saw nothing that made me dislike her .
2 It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all .
3 In trying to sort out this problem I was driven to delving through old logbooks , and it was reading them that made me realise just how often we had based ourselves in the area .
4 It was you that made me like him .
5 Does it always bother you when a man comes within touching distance , or is it just the effect I have on you that makes you flinch away ? ’
6 Then Lorne said something that made me half-identify Rimbo as French .
7 Suddenly he remembered something that made him jump .
8 But it was something about her , something that made it work between them .
9 Emily Dickenson defined writing that works as ‘ something that makes me feel as though the top of my head is coming off ’ .
10 ‘ The principle is that once we find we can do something that makes us feel good , we repeat it , ’ he explains .
11 Why should we succumb to something that makes us lose our logic and turns our brains to marshmallow ?
12 ‘ As for McClair … he 's a players ’ player , the one that makes them tick . ’
13 It was n't just fear of him that made them change .
14 There was a Puritan austerity about him that made one doubt whether he ever enjoyed anything at all .
15 He stared at her , and there was an arrogance about him that made her shiver .
16 ‘ There was something about him that made me know he was the best revue star we had . ’
17 Jim assured him that hearing me sing was the experience of a lifetime , but Dad was n't having that .
18 But he 's made me believe them ; it 's the thought of him that makes me feel guilty when I break the rules .
19 It had a slight curl in it that made her look soft somehow .
20 And when my mother was baking in a huge ovenware basin , then she 'd have the the erm the flour and the the erm what do you call it that made it rise ?
21 ‘ What was it that made you come after me ? ’ she asked , curious to learn the truth .
22 Beauty or whatever you call it that makes you feel that you have no shame any more , none left at all .
23 ( When you feel really happy these days , what sort of thing is it that makes you feel like that ? )
24 What is it that makes you want to put one point before another ? )
25 ‘ Knowing him , I expect he wanted to get rid of anything that made him think of the separation from his family , ’ she said sympathetically .
26 I tend to be rather disorganised when packing gear , so anything that helps me keep things in the right place has got to be a bonus .
27 Well it 's certainly right that you ought to stop anything that makes you feel worse .
28 Try to avoid anything that makes you want to vomit .
29 The more usual alternative however is to explain our discovery as being due to a certain causal process , something within us that makes us behave in a certain way .
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