Example sentences of "[noun] have made [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only ask because Mr Hamlyn has made them look remarkably similar — the main difference is that Ms Rendell has a splendid pair of naked buttocks perched on her head where her hair should be . |
| 2 | The recession has made it take a hard look at the cost of law and at the attitude of big London firms that it 's used for more than fifty years . |
| 3 | The call of the birds has made it seem good |
| 4 | ‘ Theo , my dear girl , your country sojourn has made you hoydenish . |
| 5 | AIDS has made me think twice about how safe the whole thing is . |
| 6 | I supported the lifting of sanctions , but the avalanche of death and blood has made me realise we 've all been conned ’ . |
| 7 | The sight of that blood has made me feel a whole lot better . |
| 8 | That break had made me realise I was n't in control of my career . |
| 9 | ‘ The lads have made me feel very welcome , which is important . |
| 10 | Even if Maastricht is ratified intact , the past four months have made it seem backward-looking , or even irrelevant . |
| 11 | In particular , the weakness of the US dollar has made it look cheap on a comparison of purchasing power . |
| 12 | The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future . |
| 13 | ‘ Being with England has made me realise what I have missed ’ |
| 14 | I suppose having my hands in my pockets has made me think about this . |
| 15 | My previous experiences had made me wonder if white policemen did n't get a kick out of black policemen investigating black citizens . |
| 16 | All the doctors , psychiatrists and groups I 'd been to so far for help had made me feel worse than ever : could she be any different ? |
| 17 | Eva could be snobby , that was obvious , but if I saw something , or heard a piece of music , or visited a place , I would n't be content until Eva had made me see it in a certain way . |
| 18 | The crime of syphilis had made me ban sex from my mind for weeks ; now I was found not guilty half an hour with a textbook Conchis had given me to look at had convinced me his diagnosis was right — the libido rose strong . |
| 19 | ‘ We must finish with totally relevant insights about how big business had made us see nature today . |
| 20 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 21 | Her quietness and unobtrusiveness had made them forget her presence . |
| 22 | The loading had made him break out in a terrible sweat and perspiration ran down his forehead into his eyes . |
| 23 | But he was aware of the stage in his career which he had reached , and work on the preparation of Collected Poems had made him feel that he was about to retire . |
| 24 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 25 | My mother had intended no lewdness , but the connotations of her remark had made me feel a greater , more immediate sense of defilement than that which I already experienced . |
| 26 | Daddy 's made you look , look some dinner . |
| 27 | f The past 3 years have made us see how very interested GPs can be with this group . |
| 28 | And of a truth vile Epicurism and Sensuality will make the soul of man so degenerate and blinde , that he will not only be content to slide into brutish immorality , but please himself of this very opinion that he is a real Brute already , an Ape , Satyre , Baboon ; and that the best of men are no better , saving that civilising of them and industrious education has made them appear in a more refined shape , and long inculcate precepts have been mistaken for connate Principles of Honesty and Natural Knowledge , otherwise there be no indespensible grounds of Religion and Virtue , but what has hapned to be taken up by overruling Custome . |
| 29 | On his arrival , he had asked for hot water to be brought up to his room at nine sharp the next morning , but the sight of one of the young servant girls struggling up the stairs from the kitchen with the huge kettle of boiling water had made him feel so guilty and ashamed he had not asked again . |
| 30 | It was about six feet from him when it went off , to which distance , and the fact that Peter 's kick had made him roll into the water at the minute of explosion , he owed his mangled survival . |