Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] made " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those in wheelchairs or too old to work outside helped in the kitchen or made elaborate Foreign Legion memorabilia for sale in the regimental shops wherever the Legion served . |
| 2 | Once again the rule was that Nice Girls Did n't — certainly not without the understanding that there was a ‘ moral ’ engagement with their partner , even if he had not yet bought the ring or made the announcement . |
| 3 | Similarly , a recent reduction in the West German prison population has not led to an increase in major crime or made the streets less safe ( Feest , 1999 ) . |
| 4 | Rosen eked out a conversation with her and without Leon Kennedy , who was sewn into an isolation that made him more powerfully present . |
| 5 | She flashed me a glance that made it clear there was some backbone in there , it was just the training that made her act like a dipstick . |
| 6 | ‘ We were talking about 1968 and 1969 and the songs that changed the face of country music — Sunday Morning Coming Down , Boy Named Sue , Lay Lady Lay , Both Sides Now — someone said they were songs that made a difference . |
| 7 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 8 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 9 | It was an association that made him an appropriate keeper at Loseley of Montague 's imprisoned son-in-law Henry Wriothesley , second Earl of Southampton [ q.v. ] in 1570 . |
| 10 | Maybe it was wishful thinking that made Thomas Jeffrey show the hill on his 18th Century map with a height of 5,280 feet — the second highest mountain in Britain , its neighbour Whernside supposedly being highest . |
| 11 | She banged the receiver down with a force that made Claudia wince . |
| 12 | His anger reached out with a deadly force that made her flinch back from him . |
| 13 | Behind Thorfinn , the door slammed shut with a force that made her bed jerk . |
| 14 | I provided the calm , the cleanliness , the order and nourish-ment that made it possible for him to work . |
| 15 | She withdrew , and Claudia opened the door , steeling herself to greet Roman without a trace of the emotion that made her want to run out of the flat , away from the two people she loved most and who were causing her so much pain that she wanted to die . |
| 16 | But there was something about them , maybe their mohair suits , maybe the hard men they imported from Glasgow or maybe their bonding as brothers that made them seem glamorous . |
| 17 | That was the obsession that made me write this . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was a command that made her even more resentful . |
| 20 | Under a massive front-page headline , HUNT FOR DRACULA FIEND ( Star ) , the report indicated that a 13-year-old was able to tell detectives that her attacker ‘ had short dark hair streaked with grey and deep-set eyes that made him ‘ look a bit like Dracula ’ ' . |
| 21 | He looked at her with his blue eyes that made you feel you were in the far distance and he was bringing you into focus gradually , like a ball magnetised to drop into his outstretched hand , be clasped by his fingers . |
| 22 | Julius stood in the doorway , and there was a bright light in his eyes that made her feel very alarmed . |
| 23 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 24 | Blue eyes that made it hard to look away . |
| 25 | Blue eyes that made her heart give an alarming little lurch . |
| 26 | He smiled suddenly , something in his eyes that made her instantly wary , but when she tried to remove her hand from his arm he covered her fingers with his own and held them there . |
| 27 | He smiled , and there was a glint in his eyes that made Rachel catch her breath . |
| 28 | Of course , having always possessed an interest in astrology , she knew that it was her Arien opposition that made her react so whenever she was under threat . |
| 29 | It must be his over-sensitive suspicious mind that made him see a relieved relaxing of those muscled shoulders . |
| 30 | The feel of them brought him back into the attic room , to the confusion that made a few words on a piece of paper into a lifeline . |