Example sentences of "[noun prp] made [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Till the Union made them acquainted with English manners , the culture of their lands was unskilful , and their domestic life unformed ; their tables were coarse as the feasts of Eskimeaux , and their houses as filthy as the cottages of Hottentots . ’ |
| 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 | Marc made her feel as if she 'd just had a battle with a steamroller — but she was mildly pleased with herself . |
| 4 | Then after Sir Henry had gone to-his room , Holmes made me stand in front of the picture . |
| 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 | Ebert made us go to the dressing-rooms after the fight . |
| 7 | Josie made her go through everything that she could remember , prompting wherever she could . |
| 8 | Once , Bill Pertwee — again a staple member of the cast — remembered for me , Kenneth Horne made him write to the wife of an executive he thought Ken had insulted at a party given by the BBC for the Round The Horne cast . |
| 9 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 10 | But as soon as the fact came to light , Lord 's agent Giles Gordon made it known to all the nine publishers to whom an outline had been submitted , some of whom did consequently withdraw bids . |
| 11 | Tommaso made me look like a mature man , an important man . |
| 12 | The skills of the midwives were everything I could have wished for and the NCT made me feel as if I was a useful part of the whole process . |
| 13 | Francesca made it sound like someone who came to clean the telephone . |
| 14 | His piece The ‘ Magic ’ Boots made me smile in reminiscence , since I was one of those with him on that occasion — the weekend in Langdale when Brasher Boots were launched on an unsuspecting world . |
| 15 | ‘ Being here in Majorca made me think of Seville . |
| 16 | Dawson made it sound like a pincer-movement . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Athelstan made him sit on the floor with his back to the wall and , crouching down beside him , told him quietly what he had learnt : how the wood carving being made for the coronation pageant might hold a clue to the killer 's identity . |
| 19 | For though the thought of making love with either Giles or Clive made her cringe in distaste , imagining Nathan Bryce 's arms around her , his mouth plundering hers as he moulded her against his powerful , hard-muscled length , sent hot sweet sensation lancing through her body . |
| 20 | Elizabeth made him come to the farmhouse . |
| 21 | Orwell once modestly remarked that Joyce 's Ulysses made him feel like a eunuch taking singing lessons , and Waugh 's artist-hero in Brideshead briskly calls modern art bosh . |