Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] made [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Even talking about Friedrich made her catch her breath , swallow , bring the shutter down in her head .
2 I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that .
3 Thinking of Lee made him remember Uncle Walter 's medals that he still had in his pocket .
4 A teacher at the junior high school in the town of Kizu made them hold negative and positive terminals while he turned on an electric current .
5 The thought of Benedicta made him smile .
6 But the memory of Mala in that half-embrace with Gharr made me wonder if she had not already … travelled beyond my reach .
7 The fellow 's smugness and unnecessary familiarity with Mala made me dislike him at once .
8 The difficulties experienced in dealing with Blackpool made him feel there should be regional departments to make contact easier .
9 A shout from David made her start .
10 ‘ 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 . ’
11 ‘ Being here in Majorca made me think of Seville .
12 Perhaps talking to her about Rob made him feel that someone was dancing on his own grave .
13 The Nobel had afforded only a temporary alleviation of this condition : indeed , the abbreviated stay in Princeton , the rush back to England , and the trip to Stockholm made him feel worse rather than better .
14 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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