Example sentences of "had make [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 He had made her laugh .
2 How his mother had made her pay !
3 Lesley-Jane Decker had seen someone or something in the wings the previous night and it had made her scream .
4 What had made her do that ? she wondered .
5 It had made her look older .
6 Paige herself had gone into town to do some shopping and had scarcely made it to the front door when the sound of another car coming up the drive had made her turn .
7 This time he really had made her cry .
8 Of course they had , and remembering had made them examine their arrangements more closely to see if they could not do without their man-servant .
9 Some cinema-goers in Leipzig even confessed that the film had made them feel emotional and slightly nostalgic for their recent past .
10 Her quietness and unobtrusiveness had made them forget her presence .
11 Still , it had made them forget her .
12 I had not thought my friends dull , but he had made them seem so .
13 Ah well , her parents were old now , and retired , and nobody thought them funny any more : indeed , it was only the intensely conventional world of a Yorkshire boarding-school that had made them seem so eccentric in the first place .
14 Something about her , some quality , some sign , had made them trust her .
15 Once Nour had made me laugh , but then I had laughed — like the nuns — more from happiness than mirth .
16 There were no bugs anywhere else on my body ; what on earth had made me think … ?
17 I had wanted to be a nun before Nour had made me love him with his golden hair and his golden face and his golden eyes .
18 Nicola had made me go and see if he was okay and I said yes he was , because I 'd seen his eye move and I left him there .
19 Did she not realize just how awful it had made me feel ?
20 All the doctors , psychiatrists and groups I 'd been to so far for help had made me feel worse than ever : could she be any different ?
21 My mother had intended no lewdness , but the connotations of her remark had made me feel a greater , more immediate sense of defilement than that which I already experienced .
22 I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time .
23 Everything Suzanna had made me feel was alive again , magnified a hundred times .
24 That break had made me realise I was n't in control of my career .
25 For Bridgnorth had made me resolve that I would never more go among a people that had been hardened in unprofitableness under an awakening ministry …
26 The way Simon 's triumphantly smug statements of impending fatherhood and marriage with you had made me suffer . ’
27 The crime of syphilis had made me ban sex from my mind for weeks ; now I was found not guilty half an hour with a textbook Conchis had given me to look at had convinced me his diagnosis was right — the libido rose strong .
28 It was not the beauty alone that had made me draw in my breath .
29 And I suppose it was instinct that had made me hang on to my thermometer ; the delicate tube was still in my hand .
30 This she had made me promise when I was nine and she continued to insist that my refusal to live my life her way was selfishness and rank ingratitude .
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