Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] made i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A sound from overhead made me look up . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What on earth made me imagine for even one second that I would have enough strength to confront Luke ? |
| 6 | Your capacity for trust made me wonder if perhaps … you , alone … |