Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] that made [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the time she enjoyed most ; when she could relax in the cosy drawing room , with its pale green walls and deep floral armchairs , and with the cheery fire-glow sending out waves of warmth that made her deliciously sleepy . |
| 2 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 3 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 4 | Zitney fixed her with the kind of look that made her feel electric all over . |
| 5 | Exactly how he achieved this I can not explain except to say that he had a kind of eloquence that made you think he was speaking to you personally and the gift of a born story-teller . |
| 6 | It was the kind of sound that made you think of the noise lambs probably make when they can smell the mint being brought in from the garden . |
| 7 | He gave her a look of contempt that made her want to hit him . |
| 8 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 9 | She came to know instinctively the kind of candid , vivid anecdote that found favour with him , the sort of thing that made him chuckle with delight , and sometimes scribble it down in a note-book . |
| 10 | The girls were , however , very much alike : wide-eyed , glossy-haired , with a hunch of shoulder and ease of hip that made them all the sisters they longed to be . |
| 11 | The Grosvenor opened its doors in the 1920s as a focal point for preachers , and it was the sound of music that made it famous . |
| 12 | But what was it about the concept of citizenship that made it so popular in political discussion and why were ‘ boy labour ’ reformers so eager to introduce working-class adolescents to its supposed virtues ? |
| 13 | The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet . |
| 14 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 15 | Lamarck is presented to us as a man misunderstood , misrepresented , undeservedly neglected and as the subject of calumnies that made him appear as ‘ the enemy of religion and teleology , even as a mechanistic materialist ’ . |
| 16 | She shook her head , trying to clear the hot rush of blood that made her feel strangely dizzy . |
| 17 | Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love . |
| 18 | Two years ago , I went on holiday to the States and witnessed scenes in clubs that made me realize women were n't as inhibited as I 'd thought . |
| 19 | It was a reunion at Bath that made me decide . |
| 20 | There was a lot about Nona that made her very vulnerable indeed , and which she seemed unaware of . |
| 21 | However , when I heard Mr. Gorbachev speaking at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in 1989 , about a common European home , I could perceive an image of Europe that made me feel far more European than I had ever done before . |
| 22 | But those who read his work , and might potentially have taken up the challenges it provoked , generally modified the project in ways that made it unrecognizable . |
| 23 | Subjective meanings , however , for Weber were the very constituent of actions that made them social and , hence , the subject matter of sociology . |
| 24 | She gave a loud , bitter shout of laughter that made them all stare . |
| 25 | They were similar types : happy , uncomplicated , but with an undercurrent of seriousness that made them want to take different directions , see with their own eyes , not other people 's . |