Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] made i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That bit made me think even then . |
| 2 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 3 | Would you believe that the sight of her in that condition made me feel differently about her ? |
| 4 | Their ugly faces and unpleasant smell made me feel quite ill . |
| 5 | The old lady made me jump when she told me not to stare but to sit down and not be nervous . |
| 6 | This question made me realise that there must be lots of new knitters out there with electronic of Duomatic 80 machines who do not know this technique . |
| 7 | ‘ My conversation with him this evening made me realise that he can be quite devious , and also that he has a rather cruel sense of humour . |
| 8 | This sight made me realise that the herbicides not only caused the trees to lose their leaves , as I had heard , but also sometimes killed the entire tree . |
| 9 | This incident made me realise that our careful descriptions of the relationship between dialect and Standard English might be misread , and so in the final Report I insisted that we should reiterate many times that all pupils should learn , and if necessary be explicitly taught , Standard English . |
| 10 | Even indoors , where vigorous exercise was impossible , I would insist on open windows , explaining that lack of fresh air made me feel sleepy . |
| 11 | This secrecy made me feel cold and lonely . |
| 12 | His use of the English language made me respect him . |
| 13 | it appeared to me little short of a miracle that a hard , matter-of-fact scientist should have been able to establish a real friendship with wild , freeliving animals , and the realisation of this fact made me feel … as though man 's expulsion from the Garden of Eden had thereby lost some of its bitterness . |
| 14 | He was the ideal of all the friends I had ever longed for , the elder brother that , as an only child , I could never hope for — though he was at least fifteen years younger than I , his assurance and absolute maleness made me feel like a younger brother by contrast . |
| 15 | My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie . |
| 16 | Lady Augusta xenophobically added : ‘ … a sort of national prejudice made me attribute the grace and dignity of the scene , for what there was of either came from her , to the blood of Kirkpatrick ! ! ! ’ , a reference to Eugénie 's Scottish grandfather |
| 17 | Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground . |
| 18 | Mr Brown 's respectful reception of these corkers made me wonder what he looks like . |
| 19 | That knowledge made me feel good . |
| 20 | Hints that merry muses were at work on Woman 's Hour that day made me re-tune the tranny to FM to catch the results . |
| 21 | So that I ca n't say I had any positive feelings in the first place , but the realisation that everybody else had negative feelings made me love him . |
| 22 | The bad news is that the good news made me feel so relieved and excited that I ran out to a bar and drank a bunch of big ones . |
| 23 | The bad yellow-eyed woman made me take my toothbrush in case I got carted off to pokey . |
| 24 | My guilty passion made me admire her in everything she said or did . |
| 25 | But his own political outlook was also vital : ‘ Those influences made me want to write a history of the game 's toilers , the hired labourers . |
| 26 | Some important business made me change my plans . |
| 27 | ‘ Chris , I really did n't know who to turn to ; and that voice made me shiver . |
| 28 | As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences . |
| 29 | Just looking at his fishy staring eyes and open mouth made me want to keep silent . |
| 30 | But a desire to be fair , a wish to be absolutely certain , and an understandable reluctance to accuse someone of perfidy who has been a friend of mine for six difficult years made me pull the telephone back to my mouth . |