Example sentences of "[verb] made [pron] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iain feels the effects of the alcohol drunk with the meal but it has made him feel good , giving him a sense — true or not — that he can cope , that he can deal with the way his own mind and from there be able to deal with other people 's . |
| 2 | In particular , the weakness of the US dollar has made it look cheap on a comparison of purchasing power . |
| 3 | The call of the birds has made it seem good |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Once upon a time I 'd 've made you turn religious , ’ said Constance , and suddenly it occurred to Scarlet that really she was already religious , as anyone who had borne a child must surely be : not in the conventional sense but rather as a passenger on a train would expect someone to be at the controls . |
| 6 | ‘ What do you think made you feel funny the last time ? ’ |
| 7 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 8 | We stared in stunned shock , realising that the pilot must have made one last superhuman effort not to come down right on our heads , but then just could n't manage those last few yards which would have brought them safely onto the runway . |
| 9 | OK , in the end the board would have told him to sod off , but it would have made him look better . |
| 10 | The physical contact which He must have had with them when reclining at table ( compare John 13:25 ) and which He obviously never dreamed of disallowing ( Luke 7:38 , 39 ) must have made them feel clean and acceptable ’ ( Nolan 1976:39 ) . |
| 11 | Rapid weight loss may have made you feel good at the time , but depression and frustration soon set in as the pounds or kilos slowly creep back on again . |
| 12 | Observing Raskolnikov wince at the idea of eternity as a bathhouse , he murmurs ‘ with a vague smile ’ that he would certainly have made it like that himself . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've made me feel cheap — ’ |
| 14 | I do n't know if somebody 's trying to tell me something , but they 've made me number thirteen . |
| 15 | They 've made me have more humility and compassion . |
| 16 | Robert said , ‘ I 'm sorry if I 've made you change any plans you had for today . ’ |
| 17 | What had made her do that ? she wondered . |
| 18 | It had made her look older . |
| 19 | Some cinema-goers in Leipzig even confessed that the film had made them feel emotional and slightly nostalgic for their recent past . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | Because , apart from the emotion of the moment , what had made me take this decision was really a kind of pride : I had to see myself as someone who had done the ‘ right thing ’ . |
| 22 | He was n't sure what impulse had made him go first to Harry Mack 's body . |
| 23 | They were the first enemy troops he had ever seen and the sight of them had made him go pale . |
| 24 | The suggestion had made him go silent . |
| 25 | And it had made him feel big in a way that had nothing to do with macho trappings . |
| 26 | None of the women he had met in Mandru 's house had made him feel ugly . |
| 27 | What on earth had made him say that ? |
| 28 | She had made him come alive in heart and mind . |
| 29 | " 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 . |
| 30 | And instead of finding it miserable and increasing the fear , we found that taking vigorous action to make the best of what we had made us feel proud . |