Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] made i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 2 | That was the obsession that made me write this . ’ |
| 3 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 4 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 5 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 6 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 7 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 8 | Two years ago , I went on holiday to the States and witnessed scenes in clubs that made me realize women were n't as inhibited as I 'd thought . |
| 9 | The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet . |
| 10 | ‘ I came down from Manchester two days ago , to meet my fellow archdeacons , and the Bishop told me of your husband 's application and of course that made me wish to meet him , and to meet you . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 12 | Cos it was in with the electric bills , and I did n't want that , and that was one of the advantages that made me decide to have here , cos I knew that the heating was in with the rent . |
| 13 | Alec wore a navy-blue romper suit — the outfit of a French workman , or indeed that of some little new-wave narcissist at a C. L. & S. screening It was the sight of him in his issued clothing that made me sense just how far he had fallen . |
| 14 | Every time they came forward , you expected something to happen ( perhaps It was sitting in the north bank with the Cockney scum that made me think this ! ! ) . |
| 15 | For my good lady loved singing and dancing and made me learn both . |
| 16 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 17 | He pipped me mum and made me jump out of my bloody skin . |
| 18 | I immediately backtracked , and he said with a sorrow that made me feel guilty , ‘ When push comes to shove , nobody wants me . ’ |
| 19 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 20 | It was extremely effective , did n't pull any punches , but had caught my eye and made me think . |
| 21 | A few monsters lay against my body and made me warm . |
| 22 | They were guilty as hell over the East German business and made me look a fool . |
| 23 | Suddenly he cut me short and took me round the room and made me look at things . |
| 24 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 25 | When the ‘ Robert Johnson , Father of the Delta Blues ’ album came out , that was one of the main things that made me want to play slide . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was despair that made me believe there was one person in the world who might know that I was in despair . |
| 27 | It was a reunion at Bath that made me decide . |
| 28 | It was foolish hurt pride that made me behave so coldly towards you . |
| 29 | That set me wondering , but it was reading the diary that made me know . ’ |
| 30 | It was pure chance that made me notice the writing on the top file , as I pushed open the window . |