Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] made i [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 The workshop session on the importance of the measurement and analysis of data made me understand the purpose of the charts and graphs displayed on office walls at Runcorn Heath .
2 Holmes ' warm words of thanks made me feel much happier , and I saw that he was right .
3 The first few hundred hours of thought made me regret my bet ; but the second couple of thousand convinced me that I 'd played it right .
4 ‘ I 'm not a particularly patient man , and the thought of lying flat on my back for weeks made me feel almost suicidal , and if it had n't been for your parents — well , suffice to say that they were marvellous — ’
5 But the memory of Mala in that half-embrace with Gharr made me wonder if she had not already … travelled beyond my reach .
6 The fellow 's smugness and unnecessary familiarity with Mala made me dislike him at once .
7 ‘ The problems of distribution and the various changes that we had to make to establish ourselves in Scotland made me think that if I just swung the compass I 'd land up in Paris . ’
8 A sound from overhead made me look up .
9 ‘ Being here in Majorca made me think of Seville .
10 It was the kind of illogical fear of the supernatural that in others made me sneer ; but all along I had felt that I was invited not out of hospitality , but for some other reason .
11 At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine .
12 If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact .
13 What on earth made me imagine for even one second that I would have enough strength to confront Luke ?
14 Your capacity for trust made me wonder if perhaps … you , alone …
15 Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ .
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