Example sentences of "[adv] made [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 He continued as if she had n't spoken , his voice dropping to a level of intimacy that suddenly made it feel as though they were alone , not being listened to by thousands of people .
2 The handbrake was extensively used to cope with icy conditions on what seemed to be never-ending hairpins and headlights in the distance changing direction constantly made us wonder whether the word insanity had taken on a new meaning [ going up and down snowy mountains in a 30-year-old car ] .
3 Helen just made me laugh but this was sober business .
4 Matthew just made me laugh cos he said like
5 That just made us laugh because
6 Though he was the descendant of a family who had done this sort of task for generation after generation , George nevertheless made it look as though he were acting .
7 And his return to civilian life soon made him realize that almost every principle needed to be a little elastic .
8 Long before John Robinson 's Honest to God made Bonhoeffer known to a mass public , Hartwell persistently made us see that this theologian-martyr really mattered for post-war theology .
9 Dana did not ask to see my own poems , which at once made me suspect that he had some knowledge of them already .
10 ‘ Keith felt very , very sorry for David and he always made me feel that I was a real bastard .
11 This kind of timidity always made me feel that he was incapable of any violence .
12 It also made me think that perhaps I had more control over the whole presentation generally which is my biggest concern so get up there and just do some and therefore it 's going to go on to the confidence side of it .
13 It also made me realise that it was stupid to waste any part of what little time we all have left in silly sulks .
14 The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation .
15 The hostile rocks cape in the midst and partly on top of which Arette-Pierre-Saint-Martin has been built also made me wonder whether skiers ever think about what might be underneath the snow they are skiing on .
16 That really made me smile when I thought of this rock'n'roll preamp being used in that situation .
17 We got a very good reception there ; the professional lighting and sound really made us feel as though we were professional .
18 Because when you raised the telephone … he showed great irritation and pretended not to hear you , so that it immediately made you think that you 'd been unwise to telephone at all .
19 In the following sentence , the effect introduced by the use of the to infinitive is even more striking : ( 190 ) … what he saw there made him falter and repeat himself and then suddenly to explode into a cry .
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