Example sentences of "made [pers pn] [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it because of the passion that the excuse me , these women seem to er , be pres having that made them think that er , it was n't er a male who wrote the book or not ? |
| 2 | What had made her do that ? she wondered . |
| 3 | What on earth had made him say that ? |
| 4 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 5 | The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future . |
| 6 | Observing Raskolnikov wince at the idea of eternity as a bathhouse , he murmurs ‘ with a vague smile ’ that he would certainly have made it like that himself . |