Example sentences of "[vb past] i [vb infin] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made me move in a hurry . |
| 2 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 3 | It made me forget for a moment how low sales figures so often are nowadays , as there are some exciting campaigns planned , some clever gimmicks , some expensive promotions and , more important , some wonderful books . |
| 4 | Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting , the ducks beautifully camouflaged , sitting tight as long as they could , then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag . |
| 5 | There were times when Joanna 's somewhat footslogging performance made me long for the thoroughbred feel of Lisa , but I had an affection for Joanna and she had one advantage over Lisa — her small cuddy where I could cook and sleep , and be independent of the land . |
| 6 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 7 | He was the ideal of all the friends I had ever longed for , the elder brother that , as an only child , I could never hope for — though he was at least fifteen years younger than I , his assurance and absolute maleness made me feel like a younger brother by contrast . |
| 8 | Sheila , who said she put the cigarette out when told to , said : ‘ They made me feel like a criminal . |
| 9 | SHE MADE ME FEEL LIKE A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT . |
| 10 | I asked if they would please call me Richard — Dick , I said , made me feel like a symbol of some kind . |
| 11 | After a disastrous relationship in my early twenties in which the woman made me feel like a rapist , I gave up on the idea of sex and women . |
| 12 | They made me feel like a dirty slag and serve me right for getting pregnant . |
| 13 | What she said and how she said it made me feel like a child . |
| 14 | Although the neighbours made me feel like an evil , uncaring daughter , I knew in my heart that you 'd understand because you always did — I loved you and that was all you needed to know . |
| 15 | It made me feel like an old sock ! |
| 16 | He made me laugh like no one on earth has ever made me laugh . |
| 17 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 18 | The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling . |
| 19 | Paul Oldfield topped the lot in Melody Maker when he wrote of the track ‘ Living And Learning ’ that it ‘ made me think of a man who favoured The Jasmine Minks and My Bloody Valentine , but whose bedroom was so damp that miraculous spores and mildew afflicted his brown suede and paisley . ’ |
| 20 | It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert . |
| 21 | It had two wings , one of which made me think of a church . |
| 22 | She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace . |
| 23 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 24 | It made me think of the Palace Hotel . |
| 25 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 26 | Too much space and too much light in this courtyard : it made me think of the difference between his face and mine . |
| 27 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 28 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 29 | They made me go through the whole thing three times , though I had hardly anything to tell them . |
| 30 | About three months before I finally , I was husband made me go to the doctor or go to the doctors for me and that 's when I realized it was depression I did n't know anything about it then . |