Example sentences of "made [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Made them envy the lucky swells who would be escorting her to nightclubs and restaurants , but also gave them a sense that she was n't stuck up , that she was a genuine person . |
| 2 | Personal experiences made them reject the new truism that the children of fatherless families become delinquent . |
| 3 | He was terrific and made me realise the only reason I had these thoughts was because of the enormous love I have for you . |
| 4 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 5 | Something made me snatch the woolly choirboy from its metal gallows ( even at that moment I noticed its surprising weight ) . |
| 6 | It was that that made me see the other side of him . |
| 7 | ‘ So what made you desert the sinking ship before the party was over ? |
| 8 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 9 | What she saw made her read the whole page carefully . |
| 10 | He did not take the sheaf of notes Marshall tendered but made him recite the relevant ones and in that way learned that three people said they had been wearing clothes which were , at least in part , cream-coloured . |
| 11 | However , the Canadian who stole the stuff turned up in the middle of the night with a revolver , took all the money my father had , and made him unload the entire cargo . |
| 12 | This made him see the great urgency of persuading ‘ such ignorant , presumptuous and careless sinners as the world aboundeth with ’ to repent and believe in Christ . |
| 13 | She also made him promise the usual things like writing to her every day and keeping warm . |
| 14 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 15 | We were lying on the ground in a row , pointing our rifles to our fronts , as he walked past each of us and made us repeat the different orders that we would be given , such as ‘ unload ’ or ‘ cock your weapon ’ . |
| 16 | Being a fanatic nonsmoker and health freak , he made us enact the ritual funeral of a cigarette end . |
| 17 | " They made us carry the injured into the station . |