Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This partially revived me after the £1,314 price tag made me feel faint . |
| 2 | His mum made him wear sensible shoes ( bit of an admission , this ) . |
| 3 | His look made me feel guilty , though I could n't think why it should . |
| 4 | ‘ Flaming June ’ , people muttered bitterly amid the cascades of rain , and the thought of the poor men who must be waiting to set out across the choppy Channel in their small boats to fight a bloody battle on the other side made me feel cold and sick . |
| 5 | Except that her figure made it look good anyway . |
| 6 | In stuffy Sydney , modern jazz made you feel liberated , or better yet , ‘ hip ’ — possessing , as the film says , ‘ esoteric knowledge not shared by the mainstream . ’ |
| 7 | Then he took the clipping down again because the photograph made her look thin . |
| 8 | And she gave me an indulgent look and she said , ‘ I 'm really sorry , the pictures made me feel tender feelings for you , but they just really did not arouse me . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , Dame Agatha 's advice was wise and Corbett felt his temper cool . |
| 10 | As the conversation replayed , Bernice felt herself go cold . |
| 11 | Lucy felt herself go tense . |
| 12 | ‘ Your cousin at home , is he , Angharad ? ’ he asked mildly and Hari felt herself grow tense . |
| 13 | Only after this prompt action did he secure Congressional support , and , close on this , the support of the UN Security Council . |
| 14 | ‘ Scottish , ’ he corrected automatically , and wondered why English accents made him feel inferior , though it did n't seem to matter so much over here , there were fewer of them . |
| 15 | Working alongside such eroticism made them feel awkward . |
| 16 | Joy made one last desperate attempt and produced the most horrendous squeak ever , like a hare caught by a harvest scythe . |
| 17 | We had assumed that their affair would in some way be a violent one , because O was known to be violent , and because Boy made you feel strange when he gave himself away to you , a strangeness , and a feeling that you always wanted more , that often came out as violence . |
| 18 | On the other , my parents made me feel horrible , guilty . |
| 19 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 20 | Maggie felt her face flaming . |
| 21 | Well Ian we 've , we 've finished the completion of the document erm the planning your future document , now which of those five areas did you find interesting ? |
| 22 | And that nose which seemed to sharpen with the years made her look predatory … |
| 23 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 24 | Carrie felt her anger growing . |
| 25 | Nor at any time after the Second World War did they seem likely , despite several important developments relating to areas of common interest . |
| 26 | The warmth of the room after the icy street and its exertions made him feel sluggish . |
| 27 | Then there was Aengus , the youngest : his owlish glasses made him look studious and he was the only Foley boy not to be chosen for some kind of team in the school . |
| 28 | That knowledge made me feel good . |
| 29 | For though the boat 's interior was a masterpiece of functional yet elegant design which created an impression of light , airy spaciousness , the very presence of Nathan Bryce made it feel cramped and claustrophobic . |
| 30 | Indigestion made you feel funny things . |