Example sentences of "[pers pn] made [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 2 | I made them wash and iron and do certain cleaning jobs to earn their spending money . |
| 3 | I made them suffer and gradually the fear went , but it left a — a sort of boiling rage . ’ |
| 4 | I made him repeat and repeat the lessons until they started to sink in and became easier . |
| 5 | I made him understand that he was to stay where he was and I would return in a few minutes with a tin of tobacco . |
| 6 | She made me go and ask your Mum for it . |
| 7 | She made me promise that I would n't tell you who I was until you said you loved me . |
| 8 | But anyway , she made me promise that my first day in New York , I 'd go to Statue of Liberty . |
| 9 | For instance , she never specifically said : ‘ Do n't blame your mother for everything ’ , but she made me understand that I was using my mother as an excuse for the fact that I was n't happy a lot of the time . |
| 10 | She made it sound as though this were something illegal . |
| 11 | ‘ The analysts finally said that what we were doing was not the problem — the problem was that we made it look as though the truth was being dragged out of us . |
| 12 | ‘ They were really kind to me and they made me feel that they genuinely cared . ’ |
| 13 | Yet when I was having my baby they made me feel as though I should n't be having it . |
| 14 | They made me look and sound like a freak : ‘ Gon na build a mown-tine . ’ |
| 15 | They made me wonder if I could use pure woven wool as a base for my own technique with the machine . |
| 16 | These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies . |
| 17 | But they made him realize that he was getting across what he wanted to get across , and not a holy-sounding fog of words . |
| 18 | Barnsley always looked threatening on the aerial front and they made it count when Brendan O'Connell arrived at the back post to bury a Wayne Biggins cross with a power header . |
| 19 | He made me feel that my ideas and my interest were important to him . |
| 20 | He made me feel like I was mad . |
| 21 | So when I was actually pregnant , although it would be fairer on me and the baby and everybody concerned if I did have an abortion , he made me know that he did n't really want me to have one . |
| 22 | He made me know that I was growing old , and that everything he was was slipping out of my hands . |
| 23 | I did n't know till the next we er till the weekend and he made me know as I 'd swore . |
| 24 | but I know it cos the other week when I had to work till half past eight for Peter , he was having a dinner party and erm we went down there , I had to go shopping with him , he made me die cos he asked me if I 'd work a bit later and I said yeah I need the money , so I 'll work later so er he made me die because he said in this flare up , this argument when when I worked that day , I mean , I worked all day , I had nothing to eat and I could n't eat af , you know , cos of this trouble I could n't eat after |
| 25 | but I know it cos the other week when I had to work till half past eight for Peter , he was having a dinner party and erm we went down there , I had to go shopping with him , he made me die cos he asked me if I 'd work a bit later and I said yeah I need the money , so I 'll work later so er he made me die because he said in this flare up , this argument when when I worked that day , I mean , I worked all day , I had nothing to eat and I could n't eat af , you know , cos of this trouble I could n't eat after |
| 26 | He made it whistle and crack threateningly , only to wind harmlessly around a girl 's thigh or waist . |
| 27 | He made it sound as though the reason was obvious . |
| 28 | He made it sound as though she had given his sermon to the messenger boy . |
| 29 | He made it sound as though it was the most wonderful thing in the world . |
| 30 | He made it sound as though he would be doing the region a favour , not erecting a gaudy , intrusive , unaesthetic and , in her opinion , entirely superfluous tourist attraction ! |