Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 That made me realise how much we depend on the prison officers and the fantastic security systems that have been built up .
2 That made me sit up .
3 This made me study harder than ever . ’
4 All this made me feel very much better and I immediately wrote my name up on the wall .
5 We were referred to as ‘ sinister ’ and this made me see how little impact we had made upon the establishment and how much further we needed to go .
6 This caused me to run out of aft trim i.e. I could n't take my hands off — and she did n't feel quite so rock-like and stable coming down the last few hundred feet , but the resulting touchdown was smoother and shorter .
7 A poignant reflection on the situation occurs in the entries for Thursday and Friday , October 10th and 11th Thursday : ‘ Had a terrible row today ; Elfed told me to go back to Pontrhydyfen .
8 this prompted me to speculate not so much on what might be deployed in order to ask different questions from those addressed in the previous galleries .
9 This meant I did n't have to get risk life and limb to get a good close up shot .
10 So what , we 'd have to make sure it was exactly the right , the same amount and , in the same flame and the same and see how long it took and whatever took the longest went I du n no whatever ?
11 old said I do n't want any of the lads going in with the girls
12 How much did I put in ?
13 Their approach was enthusiastic , good humoured and at times irreverent and they all made me feel very much at home .
14 Bricklayer , Tony one of the town 's twelve thousand jobless said I came along to show my contempt with his government policies !
15 I handed over a coin : that meant I 'd only got two left , but it was the fattest and quickest-gobbled 10p I 've ever spent .
16 Before I first visited I supposed wrongly that , since the latitudes are more or less the same , the coastline would be vaguely similar to that of Maine or New Brunswick .
17 Little did I know how right he was because the first thing that happened when David 's mother had a bad day , she would call me everything under the sun .
18 Little did I know how serious they were .
19 Little did I know how useful these things were going to be to me in the future .
20 Little did I know then that one day I would be training a fully grown bird of prey to hunt .
21 That said I 've also been taken aback by Morrissey 's oddly derogatory remarks about Pakistanis as an 18-year-old and , without dwelling on them , I must say I found such flippant adolescent observations infuriatingly inconsistent with his general world view .
22 I think that had I grown up with my parents only twenty years before , I would not now believe this .
23 Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably
24 Only in Split in 1990 did I start out too quickly and felt bad at the half-marathon stage .
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