Example sentences of "i made [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint .
2 The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time .
3 The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship .
4 Her grey eyes when she looked at me made me tremble .
5 His face was without the offensively avuncular smile that usually accompanies such trite statements ; and something intent about the look he gave me made it clear he did not mean it tritely .
6 Then he started on me , I made them what they are today , he said .
7 The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo .
8 They thought I meant for five seconds but I made them practise holding their tone for twenty or thirty seconds .
9 Jill : Well , I made them all with four things on one of those round things .
10 I made them wash and iron and do certain cleaning jobs to earn their spending money .
11 He 's talking about the time I approached them at Leeds Poly and asked them why their logo featured women 's breasts rather than the species-ist cow 's udders I made them change it to .
12 I made them myself , but I do n't know if they work yet .
13 In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way .
14 I made them up just in the spur of the moment .
15 At the top of the back stairs I made them wait .
16 I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them !
17 And I made them jigs and whatnot. when they come to do it at Dolgarrog when they come to want them doing I said to the to the the chief engineer I said , he told me about they were going get these commutators done here machine .
18 I made them suffer and gradually the fear went , but it left a — a sort of boiling rage . ’
19 I made them with a ruler , ’ he says .
20 I made them show me their identification …
21 " I made them . "
22 I do n't put a meaning on them for other people , they must form their own ideas ; I know what I meant when I made them , but it may not be the same thing for other people .
23 ‘ I had the chance to go out when there were only four cars on the track , but I made them change the car which meant I went out in the busy section . ’
24 I , I made them I started making them quite a while ago .
25 Yeah but I made them non-copper so they would n't .
26 Erm , so Jan had these butties , she said oh I made them lovingly last night , tuna , mayonnaise and onion and er she said trust Viv to ring today like when I 'd made these butties !
27 bought the wagon round , yeah I made them clear the site cos well actually it 's twelve being as , they are a bit stained
28 I made him understand that he was to stay where he was and I would return in a few minutes with a tin of tobacco .
29 He was sitting there with his head in his hands ; he did not rise when the train passed ; he made no movement ; he did not give a glance at the signs I made him ; and for a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair .
30 Mrs Jones recalls , ‘ I made him a robe and head-dress and his father made him a crook .
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