Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming from eighty throats , it swept with them down from the wooded foothills and made them sound like a flock of scavenging birds disturbed from their carcass . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | Those which have are reaping impressive rewards simply by identifying precisely the services or products customers want ; looking at their most lucrative areas ; finding out what clients really value ; and establishing what would make them move to a competing hotel . |
| 4 | It took the London store magnate Gordon Selfridge , who included them in his own advertising copy in the evening papers , to show that publishing them would increase the value of the paper to its readers , rather than make them desert to a rival medium . |
| 5 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 6 | But let me do it in my own time , and do n't make me feel like a brood mare . |
| 7 | Do n't make me sound like an idiot , Julius ! ’ |
| 8 | Mmmmm , you 'll make me dribble in a minute . |
| 9 | That made me move in a hurry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sheila , who said she put the cigarette out when told to , said : ‘ They made me feel like a criminal . |
| 13 | SHE MADE ME FEEL LIKE A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT . |
| 14 | I asked if they would please call me Richard — Dick , I said , made me feel like a symbol of some kind . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They made me feel like a dirty slag and serve me right for getting pregnant . |
| 17 | What she said and how she said it made me feel like a child . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It made me feel like an old sock ! |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert . |
| 22 | It had two wings , one of which made me think of a church . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 25 | When it was over , she walked across to the television , switched it off , turned to look at Charlotte and said : ‘ They made me sound like an unfeeling bitch . ’ |
| 26 | Sometimes they cluster on a page like blackberries on a fecund bush , and made me wonder with a stab of unease whether my own writings on American politics and presidents have not managed equally often narrowly to miss the usage and the nomenclature . |
| 27 | The intern cleaned me up then made me lie on a trolley in a curtained cubicle . |
| 28 | Tommaso made me look like a mature man , an important man . |
| 29 | Some old people have ill-fitting dentures which make them change to a ‘ soft ’ diet of bread , jam , cakes , biscuits , tinned puddings , and other convenience foods which do not supply all their dietary requirements . |
| 30 | However , I feel it is better to dominate all dogs equally and make them come to a submissive position in front of the owner , preferably the down position . |