Example sentences of "make [noun] [vb infin] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair had been flattened by the storm so that it made Trent think of a squashed astrakan hat . |
| 2 | It made Patrick cringe of course , but the inevitable comparison with his brother was high on the agenda when , clutching his share of the £45,000 winners ' cheque and £15,000 for finishing eighth in the Nabisco points table , he walked into the interview room . |
| 3 | In his white face , there was nothing but a stillness deeper than the farthest depths of the sea — a quietness that made Ruth think of a drowned body drifting on its slow journey down to the sea bed . |
| 4 | For some reason it made Maggie think of silent music , each flicker a celestial note . |
| 5 | In such dreams servants would ease him into shoes studded with diamonds ; he would cock an ear to the whinny of his coach-horses , whose splendour would make England die of jealousy ; he would give oyster banquets , and have his dining-room surrounded by espaliers of flowering jasmine , out of which bright finches would swoop . |
| 6 | Having been bitten by PW it may have made Deloitte shy of Touche . |
| 7 | That made Defries think of Johannsen . |
| 8 | With the help of his neighbours and by studying every relevant historical record that he could lay his hands on , Gough was able to trace the personal history of every family in his parish — often through several generations — and to show , incidentally , that intermarriage between the long-established families strengthened the bonds that made people think of themselves as a special community somehow different from all the others . |
| 9 | The other man 's sinewy thinness , his smooth torso and the dull tone of his flesh , made Carey think of something bloodless and odourless ; something skinned . |
| 10 | And then , ‘ Well , Wolfprince ? ’ he said in his hissing , bubbling whisper , making Nuadu think of lipless jaws and clotting wounds . |
| 11 | The smell of oil and brine permeated the castle , making Ajayi think of old harbours , and ships . |
| 12 | Delightful scene ; it made Elizabeth think of Turgenev . |
| 13 | It aims to make people think of ‘ the good old days ’ when life was slow and simple and food was tasty and natural . |
| 14 | The NARAL advertisement is an example of nonsexist language being used apparently as the norm , but in reality to make a point , to make people think of women in a context where ordinarily they might not ( as the inheritors of constitutional rights ) . |