Example sentences of "[det] [noun] made [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That bit made me think even then . |
| 2 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 3 | Would you believe that the sight of her in that condition made me feel differently about her ? |
| 4 | Yet the thought of being cooped up indoors for another few hours made her feel almost suicidal . |
| 5 | This question made me realise that there must be lots of new knitters out there with electronic of Duomatic 80 machines who do not know this technique . |
| 6 | Another director made it sound like a Faustian pact with the devil : ‘ You have to be careful not to lose your soul ’ , he whispered . |
| 7 | ‘ My conversation with him this evening made me realise that he can be quite devious , and also that he has a rather cruel sense of humour . |
| 8 | This contact made him study the issue of conformity to the established church . |
| 9 | Quietly he unwrapped the covering paper , then paused , as some instinct made him check again . |
| 10 | This sight made me realise that the herbicides not only caused the trees to lose their leaves , as I had heard , but also sometimes killed the entire tree . |
| 11 | This incident made me realise that our careful descriptions of the relationship between dialect and Standard English might be misread , and so in the final Report I insisted that we should reiterate many times that all pupils should learn , and if necessary be explicitly taught , Standard English . |
| 12 | This secrecy made me feel cold and lonely . |
| 13 | This memory made him look more often at Tess than the other dairymaids . |
| 14 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 15 | This indenture made ye tenthe day of Januarie , in the seconde and thyrde yere of the reyne of our Sovereygne Lord and Lady Phyllyp and Marye . |
| 16 | it appeared to me little short of a miracle that a hard , matter-of-fact scientist should have been able to establish a real friendship with wild , freeliving animals , and the realisation of this fact made me feel … as though man 's expulsion from the Garden of Eden had thereby lost some of its bitterness . |
| 17 | Working alongside such eroticism made them feel awkward . |
| 18 | Such thoughts made him feel uneasy , working for the Seven , for it was they , his masters , who permitted the existence of this place . |
| 19 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 20 | And these possibilities made her cling to her actual existence with pleasure . |
| 21 | Mr Brown 's respectful reception of these corkers made me wonder what he looks like . |
| 22 | He brought in a new interior designer , Ghislaine Belmont-Laon ; her work on these showrooms made her name . |
| 23 | Married men with children were the group most likely to reply that taxation made them work more hours . |
| 24 | McKellar 's subjects " … quite frequently likened the images to lantern slides … " and furthermore their unrelatedness both to current preoccupations and to each other made them seem like a series of lecturer 's slides which had not only " … been mixed up but were really intended for some other lecture " . |
| 25 | That knowledge made me feel good . |
| 26 | Hints that merry muses were at work on Woman 's Hour that day made me re-tune the tranny to FM to catch the results . |
| 27 | But his own political outlook was also vital : ‘ Those influences made me want to write a history of the game 's toilers , the hired labourers . |
| 28 | By presenting us with the most degenerate images they could find , those campaigns made us feel comfortingly distant from it all . |
| 29 | ‘ Chris , I really did n't know who to turn to ; and that voice made me shiver . |
| 30 | But her own light-heartedness made her feel tawdry . |