Example sentences of "it [adv] made " in BNC.
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| 1 | of ten , when people talked at her , it only made her feel more isolated and cut off . |
| 2 | But it only made things worse . |
| 3 | It only made sense to put tea back a bit . |
| 4 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 5 | Alexander had , up to now , been completely ignorant of this habit , and anything that he did to change it only made the situation worse . |
| 6 | It only made them laugh more . |
| 7 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 8 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 9 | But it only made her smile . |
| 10 | She found it only made things worse if she struggled , bringing her even more intimately against his muscular shape . |
| 11 | Its latest figures show that on £1.2bn of business it only made £18m profit . |
| 12 | This time they killed Charlie 's father , which was a silly mistake because it only made the young fool sign up to fight the lot of them on his own . |
| 13 | Since preview audiences rated it both best and worst thing in the film — presumably depending on level of squeamishness — it obviously made an impression . |
| 14 | As Derek came close to him , Jack could smell fry-up on his breath and it suddenly made him feel sick again . |
| 15 | But even the presence of the ridge proved nothing — it merely made the problem at once more difficult and more fascinating , and debate over the possibility of continental drift raged fiercely , with geologists divided into two opposing camps . |
| 16 | She got up early to muck him out and groom him and exercise him , and she babysat nearly every evening to keep him in good oats ( not Uncle Knacker 's ) and shoes , and when she saw the riders she was up against in the collecting ring , with their adoring parents and their fat cheque-books , it just made her all the more determined to beat them , because determination was all she had . |
| 17 | Matching sarcasm with sarcasm did n't really help , it just made you feel momentarily better . |
| 18 | Nobody likes to have their freedom taken away from them , but all the abuse and everything they threw at me — it just made me stronger each time . |
| 19 | ‘ It just made me wonder even more why such a destructive hitter has such a modest one day record , with an average of about 27 , ’ said his skipper . |
| 20 | And it just made me realize how fragile life is and how God has got his hand on you and erm how he protected me from erm being killed in that plane crash because it could easily have been my plane |
| 21 | It just made you ask different sorts of questions . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , I considered most carefully what might be the most opportune occasion to bring the matter up with him ; for although I would not for one moment , as I say , suspect Mr Farraday of inconsistency , it nevertheless made sense not to broach the topic when he was preoccupied or distracted . |
| 23 | Although the eighteenth-century house was essentially public with its absence of corridors and its interconnecting rooms , expressing what Henry Wotton had described in 1624 as ‘ the fond Ambition of displaying to a Stranger all our Furniture at one Sight ’ , it nevertheless made generous provision for those who wished to make their journeys privately , within the mind . |
| 24 | Although the Royal Navy was slow to appreciate the danger posed by Exocet in the Falklands conflict , it soon made amends . |
| 25 | It had been bored or dug or had occurred naturally at an incline of about thirty degrees , so that all the way down into the mine , holding onto the rope , they had had purchase for their feet , had almost been able to walk don , though describing it thus made a dull and orthodox act of what had been the great adventure of their boyhood . |
| 26 | Irrespective of any causal link , the additional personnel in joint assessments presumably comprised men who elsewhere would have been returned as wage earners or young and poor , but except in Kerrier , where it led to 880 native assessments comprehending as many as 1,179 individuals , it did not add greatly to the numbers of poorer men ; and if it tends to raise the true proportion to a clear quarter in a couple of hundreds , it hardly made any difference in West and Trigg . |
| 27 | It hardly made him a frequent visitor , but it gave him a few numbers to ring . |
| 28 | It always made him sick when he was expected to watch the turkey-killings . |
| 29 | She had a terrible temper , and it always made him double up when she swore at him and clenched her fists . |
| 30 | It always made for a grand fightfinisher . |