Example sentences of "[conj] make her " in BNC.

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1 The experience would not dent her confidence or make her fearful about driving alone , she said .
2 The crows attacked and her movements were strangely slow and disorientated as if she could not quite see them , or make her wings and talons move as she intended .
3 He , of course , was very anxious that no one should disobey her , or make her angry .
4 She had thought she was in love with Giles , but he had never aroused this heady excitement in her , or made her skin tingle when he came anywhere near .
5 She has a very strong sense of duty and a great capacity for making relationships , and so far , by some miracle , perhaps because of the very close bond between her and her mother , her experience does not seem to have coarsened her or made her cynical .
6 As soon as she had said it she knew that it was true and that made her sadder and crosser .
7 Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry .
8 She has grown into an elegant and gracious woman , but lost none of the spark that made her such an endearing young bride .
9 Charles was compelled to break some news to Clarissa that made her droop still more .
10 Freya 's story is unusual in some ways , in that unlike Alison Freya started off , as she says , quite happy with her body ; it was the reaction of other people that made her uncertain .
11 He cuddled her and felt the bump in a way that made her uneasy as to the propriety of it and asked constantly how this baby was to climb out .
12 Martha stood patiently for a long time while her mother tried one dress after another on her , hoping to find a colour that made her skin seem paler and a cut that disguised her skeletal proportions .
13 If it was a shock that made her quiet , it 'll be a shock 'll bring her round again . ’
14 She was about to turn and go back when she saw something that made her stop and purse her lips disapprovingly .
15 It was during one of these stops that she heard a sound that made her start suddenly .
16 And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ?
17 To add to her miserable state a bleak wind had got up , bringing with it a sweet tangy yeast smell that made her stomach roll and cry out .
18 At first she could meet his eyes , but what she saw confused her and she looked at the floor , colour creeping into her cheeks , reacting against the tenderness surprised in herself with a sense of shock that made her brusque and suspicious .
19 She was wearing a blue shift that made her arms and legs look very brown .
20 She flashed me a glance that made it clear there was some backbone in there , it was just the training that made her act like a dipstick .
21 Beneath the tick and scrawl that made her name the paper was lightly wrinkled .
22 And though rude , crude , vulgar and philistine , she also had an abrasive sense of reality that made her attractive to artists .
23 Francis was trying to divide his attention between the little moving pictures and the Doctor 's argument with the dreadful Lacuna woman , but he had seen the blond girl smile in a way that made her face look almost unattractive , and he had heard her whisper savagely .
24 It was n't really the sting of the blows , but the amount of time the thrashing continued that made her burst into a flood of tears .
25 There was something about Mortimer that made her uneasy .
26 Whatever it was , Ace found that she could n't place his style of soldiery , and that made her nervous .
27 It was the betrayal of her trust that made her flutter with anger .
28 It was the way she moved , the animation of her face , the way she held herself that made her presence so electric , not any ultra-daring revelation of flesh .
29 Because it was n't just last night that made her cool and wary towards this friend of her mother 's .
30 And to eat there — how she longed to , to drop the few years that made her different from Cad , to lose the ripeness and rotundities that would always make her different from Cati , who was , really , almost boy-like with her stringbean limbs , yet not quite boyish either , angelic rather ; she was not afflicted with the need Rosa felt , the gap opening inside her , where a longing for something other than what lay within her sights sat in occupation , banging her drum and marking out a new rhythm and new steps for Rosa 's spinning wants , calling down the corridors of Rosa 's body to her innermost inguinal life , till her blood rang to the beat .
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