Example sentences of "that make [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not so sure we 're ill-matched , and I do n't think you are either , ’ he said with a brooding look that made her shudder . |
| 2 | His mouth captured hers again with a strength and intent that made her gasp . |
| 3 | ‘ I wo n't take your refusal , ’ he said in a soft voice that made her quake . |
| 4 | Then she held out her hand to Eileen and gave it a strong clasp that made her wince . |
| 5 | The answer came suddenly , a slap in the face that made her wince : because , on the only occasion when Merrill had actually confronted him with her suspicions — had brought them right out into the open — she had n't given him a chance to explain . |
| 6 | Within seconds Travis was behind her , swinging her round with a grip that made her wince . |
| 7 | He stared at her , and there was an arrogance about him that made her shiver . |
| 8 | There was a harsh note in his voice that made her shiver . |
| 9 | She wore a fetching , knee-length black dress and a kind of Spanish headdress that made her look a little like a sherry advertisement . |
| 10 | My mother would visit on Speech Day and Sports Day , wearing a Jaeger-style home-made camel coat and a pillbox hat , or her green velvet coat that made her look , I thought , like the Queen . |
| 11 | Her eyes were a startling violet colour that made her look incredibly strong-minded . |
| 12 | It had a slight curl in it that made her look soft somehow . |
| 13 | Tsu Ma laughed ; a soft , generous laughter that made her look up at him again and meet his eyes . |
| 14 | So Julie smiled at us , in a half-proud , half-scared sort of way , that made her look more as if she was going to burst into tears , and marched up the street , pigtails bobbing , and over the main road to the bus-stop , and stood there gazing across at us with blank eyes while the traffic trundled backwards and forwards between us . |
| 15 | My mum was wearing a sort of large red sack and a conical hat that made her look like a gnome in a pantomime . |
| 16 | She was wearing a robe against the cold , her hair in two pigtails that made her look curiously vulnerable . |
| 17 | She frowned ; there was something about the people in the water that made her look more closely . |
| 18 | Somehow that made me tell lies . ’ |
| 19 | Alec wore a navy-blue romper suit — the outfit of a French workman , or indeed that of some little new-wave narcissist at a C. L. & S. screening It was the sight of him in his issued clothing that made me sense just how far he had fallen . |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | The first I new was Chris 's sudden , shocked screaming , with an urgency that made me drop what I was doing and run across the room to the open verandah . |
| 22 | I suppose it was the expression on his face that made me scream . ’ |
| 23 | It was a reunion at Bath that made me decide . |
| 24 | Cos it was in with the electric bills , and I did n't want that , and that was one of the advantages that made me decide to have here , cos I knew that the heating was in with the rent . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It must have been the totality of the situation that made me feel that heaven was very near and the invisible clearly seen . |
| 27 | ‘ You tied up a little bit towards the end , ’ said Ron , and that made me feel good . |
| 28 | As we stepped out of the plane at Madrid airport the heat hit us like an oven , and that made me feel very good indeed . |
| 29 | ‘ Gosh , that made me feel so much better — being told the whole world is in recession ! ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |