Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she took off her glasses the sun caught her eyes and made them flash like green torches . |
| 2 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 3 | But the polish on the sockets made them look like new . |
| 4 | It was an odd shade of reddish gold and , coupled with their tanned complexions and slanted eyes , made them look like young eagles . |
| 5 | The women 's hats and bright make-up made them look like exotic birds . |
| 6 | To some observers , the new generations who were born into this environment appeared stunted and uncouth ; their cheap clothing and strange variations on the English language made them seem like another species , almost subhuman . |
| 7 | The Victorians , of course , for all their virtues , had an edge of prudery which made them condemn in public that which they were busy practising in private . |
| 8 | He made me dress in erotic underwear and to dress as his sex slave . |
| 9 | Once he even made me hand over all the money beforehand , so that it would look as if he was paying for everyone himself . |
| 10 | They made me feel of some value again and the warmth was flooding through me long before the kettle had boiled on the iron stove in the corner . |
| 11 | This made me feel in later life that I was very unattractive , because I had had so many negative thoughts about my appearance earlier in my life . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ’ Boy often made me think of that particular moment — it was the way he looked down . |
| 15 | It made me think of that voodoo thing which hangs round graveyards and wears a top hat . ’ |
| 16 | The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam . |
| 17 | Some even made me jump After this we got back on the coach and waited for the ferry . |
| 18 | He made me work with all his might |
| 19 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 20 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 21 | ‘ You made me rise to that bait , did n't you ? ’ |
| 22 | My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie . |
| 23 | She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’ |
| 24 | He let me think about that , a long , tense silence between us . |
| 25 | Your chairman was kind enough — before he let me loose on this most patient audience — to say that my attitude , for an historian , was very unhistorical and I took it that that was meant as praise . |
| 26 | She let him go without further protest . |
| 27 | He paused a moment , and when he found that the horse was no longer rebellious , and only impatient to gallop , he let him go at full speed . |
| 28 | She let him go in alone to break the news to Chris . |
| 29 | The court heard Bedworth , now a student at Edinburgh University studying artificial intelligence , spent hours sitting in his bedroom mastering a £200 Christmas present which helped him hack into hi-tech systems . |
| 30 | Mike let her go with rueful amusement in his dark eyes as she made her way towards the lift , having refused all offers of help with her overnight bag , which she slung over one shoulder . |