Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] made [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw nothing that made me dislike her . |
| 2 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 3 | His dark eyes searched her face , and there was a momentary desperation in them that made her reach up to reassure him . |
| 4 | In trying to sort out this problem I was driven to delving through old logbooks , and it was reading them that made me realise just how often we had based ourselves in the area . |
| 5 | It was what we were told about them that made us frightened . |
| 6 | ‘ He gave me pride in meself and made me feel wanted . |
| 7 | It has affected me and made me pause for thought . |
| 8 | I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision . |
| 9 | And he hung it there for me and made me feel its proportions . |
| 10 | ‘ It really touched me and made me feel quite sad that a man should have died in the street from hypothermia so I 've decided to try and do something to help ’ she said . |
| 11 | Stuart came home last night in his usual cheerful mood , gave me a kiss , put his arm round me and made me sit down as if he had something important to say . |
| 12 | He relaxed his death-hold on me and made me sit down with him on a convenient bench . |
| 13 | When it was on television it really looked , it really looked good but er the reality of it was it was pretty bad really but er the editor was very kind to me and made me look quite a hero but . |
| 14 | It was you that made me like him . |
| 15 | Then Lorne said something that made me half-identify Rimbo as French . |
| 16 | Suddenly he remembered something that made him jump . |
| 17 | But it was something about her , something that made it work between them . |
| 18 | It was n't just fear of him that made them change . |
| 19 | There was a Puritan austerity about him that made one doubt whether he ever enjoyed anything at all . |
| 20 | There was something about battling with him that made her feel unlike herself — weak , her mind in total confusion . |
| 21 | He stared at her , and there was an arrogance about him that made her shiver . |
| 22 | ‘ There was something about him that made me know he was the best revue star we had . ’ |
| 23 | The girl had something — quite apart from her natural grace and outstanding good looks , quite apart from the lithe , leggy body that was simply made for modelling , there was a quality about her that made her stand out from all the others girls in the class , which drew the eye and held it , so that even someone as cynical as Arlene looked and wanted to go on looking . |
| 24 | This had a marvellous calming effect on him and made him determined to do the job right , especially as it was Molly 's first time . |
| 25 | She often rang up the producer and had a go at him and made him swear never to do anything like that again . |
| 26 | And her suppliant 's face , round and even in this twilight , thickly flushed in the hectic way that he had seen before , repulsed him and made him take her by the arm she had raised and move it like a detached limb back to her side . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're thinking that the aunt killed him and made it look as though he 'd done it himself . ’ |
| 28 | It was that which struck an answering chord within her and made her stop . |
| 29 | Then the scuffles subside and I think I hear my bedroom door opening , so my finger tightens on the trigger and I hear my name and I shake my head and I recognize the voice and I know it is Jancey and she 's shouting where am I and I think they 've grabbed her and made her act the decoy and I 'm trying to work out what to do when I hear what she 's saying . |
| 30 | His ‘ Leith , you do n't … ’ could n't have been very important either , otherwise , knowing him , he 'd have charged after her and made her listen . |