Example sentences of "this [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This made me uneasy , and I was glad when someone gave me a glass of white wine . |
| 2 | This made me aware of how badly I 'd done with the domestic arrangements . |
| 3 | To a degree this made him vulnerable : Vichy propagandists had an opportunity to fill in the blanks , by vilifying him as a deserter in the pay of the British or of Jewish interests . |
| 4 | This made him easier to take home for the night ; people who would normally never have approached such a beauty felt that they could . |
| 5 | He knew he was slow-witted ; so many things that were simple for other people quite defeated him , and he was aware that this made him different — he had even heard himself referred to as ‘ not all there ’ . |
| 6 | This made him popular at home , but enraged Alexander III . |
| 7 | This made him aware of how much he 'd been missing before in the cold , masculine environment of the academy . |
| 8 | Not that this made them live longer — average life expectancy was only 38 . |
| 9 | This made us both laugh . |
| 10 | Possibly this made you uneasy , or possibly , with the storm blowing up , you did not want to take your boat across to the mainland again , so you decided to let things alone , and not risk taking any stolen goods on board . |
| 11 | Swan seemed unwilling to fly very close to these creatures from another world , and this made it impossible for Little Billy to see them clearly . |
| 12 | This made it impossible for those who did advance reform proposals , such as Panin under Catherine II and Pahlen under Alexander I , to organize united pressure upon the Tsar to compromise his authority . |
| 13 | This made it worse . |
| 14 | This made it easy for the doctor to see at a glance how Vincent 's temperature had changed up or down , since the operation without studying a long list of figures . |
| 15 | This made it easy for him to appear younger , simpler and less thinking than he was . |
| 16 | I had already made my debut in Scrutiny , however , and he may have felt that this made it appropriate that I should have something equivalent in The Criterion . |
| 17 | This made it possible to group together different types of service ( InterCity 's identity was first established on this basis ) and look at their costs and revenues in a sensible manner . |
| 18 | This made it possible for Germany to develop economically and socially , and enabled Barbarossa to consolidate and extend his imperial and personal power throughout the German kingdom . |
| 19 | This made it possible to rethink multiculturalism 's psychological interpretation of racism as individual prejudice in more structural and politicized terms . |
| 20 | Presumably this made it possible to combine touch and smell information , though we can only guess about this . |
| 21 | Prices were not going up too fast and again this made it economical for us to visit . |
| 22 | This made it clear that periti might not all be theologians ( 'canonists and other experts ’ were also mentioned ) , and that there was a distinction between conciliar periti and private advisers to bishops . |
| 23 | Of course this made it clear that von Neumann 's " proof " needed reappraisal , a task successfully accomplished by John Bell . |
| 24 | This made it clear that it was not the governments objective to alter fundamentally the red relationship between auditor and client , nor were we looking to increase the costs of audit . |
| 25 | It was also suggested that the Board had insufficient knowledge of the Highlands and all this made it difficult for them to act correctly . |
| 26 | This made it difficult to draw conclusions . |
| 27 | These were slow to develop , and the realisation of this made it difficult ( even had they wished to do so ) for Ministers to treat them like private sector companies , subject largely to control by fiscal and monetary policies rather than detailed intervention on capital spending . |
| 28 | This made it difficult for modernist aesthetics to become oppositional . |
| 29 | This was indeed his year for honours since in January he had been awarded the Order of Merit by George VI ; some have said that this gratified him more than the Nobel , and certainly he seemed to enjoy wearing the medal and ribbon on ceremonial occasions . |
| 30 | This showed us that integration saves time and duplication , and makes the programme more interesting for the students . |