Example sentences of "[det] make [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted to get on but that made me swear if I ever got made Sergeant , I would never treat a man the way I was treated . |
| 2 | ‘ That made me laugh as well , ’ says Taki . |
| 3 | A child 's breathless wailing calmed by the firm slap of the father 's hand , a dead ant revived by the careless press of a passing sole , a wounded finger healed and sealed by the knife 's blade : anything like that made me flinch and veer . |
| 4 | Later , when lucidity returned to him , the recollection of that made him blush and cringe , but at the time he did not care . |
| 5 | That made you cough and blink . |
| 6 | This made me shudder but I was brought back to my own worries when I heard Mum demand that she gave the lump of coal back . |
| 7 | This made me feel that Sorrel was still with us , and I 'm sure she was — in Bamba . |
| 8 | Often this made him laugh and hug her . |
| 9 | This made it appear that he threw the ball when bowling at his fastest ; when he reduced his pace he was relatively innocuous . |
| 10 | Giving an account of it like this makes me feel as though you 're asking me to account for it , explain it for you . |
| 11 | This makes me wonder whether your drive is fitted on a 5.25-inch mounting frame . |
| 12 | This makes me wonder if it is the creative thought that guides the discoverer or whether it is the emotion that is the creative force that impels him to the solution . |
| 13 | This makes it vomit and gives it diarrhoea , so you 're flushing the toxins out of both ends . |
| 14 | They do this to make us feel that we are significant — they are recognising the customer as an individual . |
| 15 | Examples like these make it appear that the performance of manufacturers ' software can always be bettered . |
| 16 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 17 | This is enough to make me feel like I own the world . |
| 18 | A two-part intermediate course for the adult learner , that makes you work and allows you to think . |