Example sentences of "and made [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | She had taken up the idea , she supposed , and made everything bend to it . |
2 | She swung her heavily stuffed silver-mesh purse on its long chain and made something like a little skipping step towards the door Nicandra thought she had never looked prettier . |
3 | He can break up the rhythm with the deceptive powers of a confidence trickster and made something happen from seemingly stagnant positions . |
4 | It was that which struck an answering chord within her and made her stop . |
5 | I bumped into Esmerelda and made her squeal . |
6 | He punched her on the head and made her do pull-ups against a door frame . |
7 | Some moment when she , as a child , was on the verge of doing something wrong , and he could have fulfilled a father 's role and made her do it . |
8 | For some reason the simple outfit accentuated her long legs , and made her appear willowy and lithe rather than just bony and flat-chested . |
9 | , And much as she had disliked the old women when they were grasping at her and joking about her , she did notice that they comforted her mother , talking about her two lovely clever daughters , and made her join in a bit of a singsong and made her laugh . |
10 | Something struck her smartly in the middle of her shoulders and made her gasp . |
11 | It tickled her nose and made her gasp . |
12 | Something scratchy nudged against her calves and made her jump . |
13 | All in white , she noticed , which lifted her spirits and made her smile . |
14 | ‘ I will fetch some clean water and a cloth , ’ she said hastily , and made her escape . |
15 | ‘ No , thank you , Miss Martindale , ’ she said quietly , and made her escape . |
16 | Aloud , she said , ‘ Of course , but you must not hope for too much , ’ and made her escape . |
17 | She took the folder he handed her and made her escape . |
18 | He picked up her hand and put it on his cock ; then placed his own hand over hers and made her squeeze ; it was hot , even under the rough material of his trousers , and rolled about clumsily over the squidgier sack of his balls ; but he was panting , making stirring motions with his knees against her legs , working with his free hand at his waistband , until he freed himself from his flies and had wrapped her hand around his naked cock ; he spat on his hand and worked the spittle onto the skin , and when he made her hold him again , she felt the wetness on her fingers , and drying fast as he pumped himself up and down over her hand , pinning her hand under his . |
19 | She felt as though she were suffocating in the heat , as though it were stopping her nostrils , sealing her mouth , and when she tried to breathe it forced itself down into her stomach and made her heave . |
20 | The smoke reached Amanda and made her sneeze ; she wriggled under the blankets and Cormack looked down at her shoulder . |
21 | He put his hand under Thérèse 's chin and made her rise . |
22 | There was a tone in his voice that Breeze had never heard before — a tone that startled her , and made her look at him with wide , bewildered eyes . |
23 | The fullness around her forehead balanced her square chin and the waterfall of glossy brown hair softened her angular bones and made her look younger than usual . |
24 | It had been far easier to keep it tidy , she thought , in the days when she wore it pinned up ; the style she had taken to suited her better and made her look and feel years younger than she was but it was a terrible nuisance . |
25 | He touched her gently under the chin and made her look up . |
26 | When she turned her head away he captured her face between strong hands and made her look at him . |
27 | It was only when Maisie emerged from the back kitchen , wearing her third headscarf of the morning ( this one was in Liberty print and made her look as if she was about to go out to watch titled men shooting grouse ) , that he felt emboldened to get close enough to hear what they were saying . |
28 | Bending down , he stared into her face , his long fingers strangely gentle as he cupped her cheek and made her look at him . |
29 | Even as an interim measure , the ghettos , one felt , were a failure , and made one suspect , briefly yet sickeningly , that the whole enterprise , the whole dream had been fatally grandiose : too many , too many . |
30 | A few monsters lay against my body and made me warm . |