Example sentences of "[that] made [pers pn] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing that made me feel he was more normal was this little bit of dialogue . |
| 2 | I failed the Eleven-Plus — that horrible thing and that made me feel I was n't any good . |
| 3 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 4 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 5 | And though he was never to make such almost innocent remarks again , and though Eva and Dad continued to want to make love all the time , and I caught her giggling while she did idiotic things with him , like snipping the hair in his ears and nostrils with a huge pair of scissors , there were looks that escaped all possible policing , looks that made me think he was capable only of a corrupted happiness . |
| 6 | I saw nothing that made me dislike her . |
| 7 | ‘ There was something about him that made me know he was the best revue star we had . ’ |
| 8 | It was you that made me like him . |
| 9 | It was guilt that made him do it . |
| 10 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 11 | ‘ It was the clothes , you see , that made him think she was Egyptian . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was that , or frustration , or , more probable still , a queer kind of prudery — he would rather his mother thought him a brute than realize what we had been up to — that made him hit me . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps you were thinking about Finn 's hand and that made you think you saw a hand ? ’ |
| 14 | He thought he could hear voices now ; silvery , gentle voices , dark voices , that made you think you might be being watched . |
| 15 | Exactly how he achieved this I can not explain except to say that he had a kind of eloquence that made you think he was speaking to you personally and the gift of a born story-teller . |
| 16 | He looked at her with his blue eyes that made you feel you were in the far distance and he was bringing you into focus gradually , like a ball magnetised to drop into his outstretched hand , be clasped by his fingers . |