Example sentences of "that made [pers pn] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | My mum was wearing a sort of large red sack and a conical hat that made her look like a gnome in a pantomime . |
| 2 | This presented a thought that made me shudder with fright : this awesome , eerie world-apart in the dead of night , unbearably cold , no moon or stars , merely the moan of the mysterious gods beneath the ice … |
| 3 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 4 | The g was less , and that made me feel at home . |
| 5 | The audience were a comic 's dream and when Dennie came back on stage and whispered ‘ two minutes to count-down ’ I ran off to applause that made me feel like Mike Tyson . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 7 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 8 | The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam . |
| 9 | The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet . |
| 10 | Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love . |
| 11 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | More than anything else it was the two essays Camus wrote evoking ‘ the great free love of nature and the sea ’ at Tipasa that made me come to Algeria . |
| 14 | I 'd swap my vest and plasters for a Marks and Spencer circle-stitched bra , a rigid , pointed contraption that made me look as if I had a couple of ice-cream cones up my jumper : I could never fill them to the end ( not even on a good day ) and the last waltz would result in dents in the ends . |
| 15 | She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’ |
| 16 | Lamarck is presented to us as a man misunderstood , misrepresented , undeservedly neglected and as the subject of calumnies that made him appear as ‘ the enemy of religion and teleology , even as a mechanistic materialist ’ . |
| 17 | It was Mr Banzer 's wrath that made him go into exile in Argentina . |
| 18 | She came to know instinctively the kind of candid , vivid anecdote that found favour with him , the sort of thing that made him chuckle with delight , and sometimes scribble it down in a note-book . |
| 19 | He remembered old dad VATman up at Hoomey 's sitting by the fire and how he had wanted to go there , and that made him think of a good name : Lucky Fireside … no , Firelight , Lucky Firelight . |
| 20 | But he looked up all the same and saw the bike pass by , the rider wearing an unfamiliar black helmet and black leathers , the motorbike low-slung , bulging , making a noise that made him think of someone beating cream in a bowl with a wooden spoon . |
| 21 | ‘ Knowing him , I expect he wanted to get rid of anything that made him think of the separation from his family , ’ she said sympathetically . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was these journeys that made him realise to the full how many of the world 's species were on the brink of extinction . |
| 23 | Something knocked his hat over his face , he pushed at the peak , saw the grey 's hindquarters lift elegantly over the gate and out into the light , felt Conker steadying and kicked him on swiftly because there was n't time to stop , he swung his hand back and hit the pony who lifted suddenly , landing with a jolt that made him grunt with effort . |
| 24 | As for Forrester , Whelan , Bowman etc I got the impression that it was more desparation that made him turn to the younger players , granted their performances were top notch but I think the injury situation had more to do with it than Wilko 's judgement , after all where are they now ? ? ? |
| 25 | In the centre of the road was a six-foot colour portrait of President Assad , an artist 's impression of the Syrian leader in air force uniform that made him look like an elderly Battle of Britain pilot , eyes narrowed against the sun , gaze fixed on the heavens . |
| 26 | Tom , meanwhile , has binned the thigh-slapping choreography that made him look like an excited primate and opted instead for more engaging shapes akin to those thrown by a boxing kangaroo . |
| 27 | Kite , one of the few golfers to have had any success with switch-hitting on the greens , came out this year with a compact whip-and-zip to his swing that made him look like one of those little mechanical Arnold Palmer golf games that were so popular in the 1960s ( and have recently surfaced again ) . |
| 28 | Often he acted in ways that made him seem like a child demanding to be looked after . |
| 29 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 30 | Downstairs the Disco provided a large crowd with the sounds that made them get on the floor and bring a whole new ball game to the w world of the Barn Dance . |