Example sentences of "[pers pn] that make [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 2 | His dark eyes searched her face , and there was a momentary desperation in them that made her reach up to reassure him . |
| 3 | In trying to sort out this problem I was driven to delving through old logbooks , and it was reading them that made me realise just how often we had based ourselves in the area . |
| 4 | It was what we were told about them that made us frightened . |
| 5 | It was you that made me like him . |
| 6 | Does it always bother you when a man comes within touching distance , or is it just the effect I have on you that makes you flinch away ? ’ |
| 7 | It was n't just fear of him that made them change . |
| 8 | There was a Puritan austerity about him that made one doubt whether he ever enjoyed anything at all . |
| 9 | There was something about battling with him that made her feel unlike herself — weak , her mind in total confusion . |
| 10 | He stared at her , and there was an arrogance about him that made her shiver . |
| 11 | ‘ There was something about him that made me know he was the best revue star we had . ’ |
| 12 | But he 's made me believe them ; it 's the thought of him that makes me feel guilty when I break the rules . |
| 13 | The girl had something — quite apart from her natural grace and outstanding good looks , quite apart from the lithe , leggy body that was simply made for modelling , there was a quality about her that made her stand out from all the others girls in the class , which drew the eye and held it , so that even someone as cynical as Arlene looked and wanted to go on looking . |
| 14 | It had a slight curl in it that made her look soft somehow . |
| 15 | And when my mother was baking in a huge ovenware basin , then she 'd have the the erm the flour and the the erm what do you call it that made it rise ? |
| 16 | ‘ What was it that made you come after me ? ’ she asked , curious to learn the truth . |
| 17 | Beauty or whatever you call it that makes you feel that you have no shame any more , none left at all . |
| 18 | ( When you feel really happy these days , what sort of thing is it that makes you feel like that ? ) |
| 19 | What is it that makes you want to put one point before another ? ) |
| 20 | The more usual alternative however is to explain our discovery as being due to a certain causal process , something within us that makes us behave in a certain way . |