Example sentences of "[noun] [that] made i [vb infin] " in BNC.

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31 However , when I heard Mr. Gorbachev speaking at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in 1989 , about a common European home , I could perceive an image of Europe that made me feel far more European than I had ever done before .
32 The thing that made me feel he was more normal was this little bit of dialogue .
33 The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam .
34 She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’
35 It must have been the totality of the situation that made me feel that heaven was very near and the invisible clearly seen .
36 The first I new was Chris 's sudden , shocked screaming , with an urgency that made me drop what I was doing and run across the room to the open verandah .
37 But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning .
38 You see , it was really my dad that made me go along with the Church , even though he did n't really involve himself .
39 More than anything else it was the two essays Camus wrote evoking ‘ the great free love of nature and the sea ’ at Tipasa that made me come to Algeria .
40 Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love .
41 It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men .
42 I 'd swap my vest and plasters for a Marks and Spencer circle-stitched bra , a rigid , pointed contraption that made me look as if I had a couple of ice-cream cones up my jumper : I could never fill them to the end ( not even on a good day ) and the last waltz would result in dents in the ends .
43 She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace .
44 I suppose it was the expression on his face that made me scream . ’
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