Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] made [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Once Stalin made me dance the Gopak , squat down on my haunches and kick out my heels , ’ writes Khrushchev , an image hard to call up in view of his shape , but — ‘ When Stalin says ‘ Dance ’ , a wise man dances , ’ added the peasant proverb-spinner in his accustomed vein . |
| 3 | It was only when Ian Salisbury came on that Waugh made one mistake , clipping the leg-spinner to mid-wicket in his first over . |
| 4 | She had always had a vague idea that psychotherapists made you lie down on a couch and waffle on about your problems until finally , in some miraculous way , they were no longer problems , just a pain that had been gradually eased away . |
| 5 | The last time I saw her was when Benedict Joseph shoved her into his car outside the Villa Fiesole , and Philippe made me go with him to Nice . ’ |
| 6 | All day and then he got all to do at lunch time yeah they kept it up all the day , they had separate play time , they had had to eat their lunch in the class room all they were allowed was a piece of fruit , a bread and water and they all had to have , you know , they had a bread roll supplied by the school an a an apple I think And Jan made them write out their names and some of them could n't write their name ! |
| 7 | Cos mum made me laugh tonight but she came in and she said oh you can have a hot cross bun there , I said well I think I 'll have a piece of chocolate cake and she said alright then ! |
| 8 | The clear autumn day drew to a close and Corbett made them rest their horses for a while . |
| 9 | But , for one thing , the sheer size of the defeat made him and his players determined that it would never happen again and , for another , the power of Lillee and Thomson made him realize just what a potent weapon a battery of fast bowlers would be . |
| 10 | Felipe stopped again and Maggie made herself look , the weakness of sheer relief flooding through her . |
| 11 | A tall chimney above the heating plant and workshops made it look rather like a factory under guard . |
| 12 | Not least , the absence of any serious rationing of consumer goods , and the large number of exemptions from military service for skilled workers and farmers made it appear that the regime was well in control of developments , did not fear a war on the 1914–18 scale , and was even rather generous in its provisioning arrangements . |
| 13 | The rank odour of sweat and urine made him wince . |
| 14 | Modigliani 's profound humanism and pessimism made him distrust political systems . |
| 15 | That was an excess of suspicion , for the letter was drafted by David Hunt , vice Bevir who was ill , and Hunt made it conform to precedents . |
| 16 | Susan went to bed early , and Breeze and Gay made themselves toast and welsh rarebit , and settled down for a long evening by the fire . |
| 17 | Griffith 's ambition to be both artist and prophet made him elevate melodrama into something fuller in terms of its emotional and social range and the stunning way in which the totally real sense of society sustained his story-line gave his films what appeared to be the power of history and the richness of literature . |
| 18 | ‘ And Pietr made her have the child ? ’ |
| 19 | Roots tripped him and rocks made him slip , and in places the path was so soft-edged that it simply dropped away from under him in the darkness . |
| 20 | Its hue and texture made him wonder whether he could risk blowing his nose without making yet another visit to the bathroom . |
| 21 | It had since been rebuilt ; its arched windows and roofs made it look like a Russian provincial home . |
| 22 | ‘ No bank would lend him the money but Harry made it work . ’ |
| 23 | Not a good actor , but Charles made him play himself and it worked . |
| 24 | I would have liked to have heard it again at the second service but Dad made us hurry home . |
| 25 | And in fact they never made it to the man 's house in the country that night , because Boy made him stop the car twice more . |
| 26 | We had assumed that their affair would in some way be a violent one , because O was known to be violent , and because Boy made you feel strange when he gave himself away to you , a strangeness , and a feeling that you always wanted more , that often came out as violence . |
| 27 | Comedian Michael Bentine recounted that he had asked a sensitive why some parts of the chalk countryside around Folkestone , where he lived , gave him a great feeling of security and peace while others made him feel uncomfortable and nervous . |
| 28 | McVeighty gambled on going the complete four laps on one tankful of petrol , while Bell made one pit stop . |
| 29 | I had another coffee ; I was confused , irritable and dizzy as I stood by the buffet and watched the station cleaners , suddenly desperate to be on my way before tiredness made me change my mind . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd guessed Donna had a twin sister — somewhere — and I — oh , I know this sounds silly , but I 've been thinking about it , ever since the transplant was mentioned , before Juliet made me realise who she ws . |