Example sentences of "[conj] made his " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seized Sam by the shoulder in a grip that made his eyes water . |
| 2 | Today it had doubled , crossed from one side of his forehead to the other , and reinforced a series of furrows rather than wrinkles , that made his broad white forehead look like a new-ploughed field covered in snow . |
| 3 | There was a lot of pressure on Greg for the fourth round , and that made his eventual victory even greater . |
| 4 | Both highly desirable , the one on the left especially ; both looked as if they would n't get on their backs for anything less than Edouard de Chavigny himself ; both had the kind of accent that made his toes curl , and made him wish he 'd opted for the more costly tailor . |
| 5 | But tonight there had been no time to get the cheese or sardines or cold ham that made his evening meal ; Sean never liked to cook in his bedsit above the premises of Hogan 's lest the smell of food linger and be deemed offensive . |
| 6 | Sharpe spurred her into a clumsy gallop that made his heavy sword flap in its slings and crash its disc hilt painfully onto his left thigh . |
| 7 | Covering his own face with his hands , he was overtaken by silent sobs that made his shoulders shake . |
| 8 | He could not see her face , since it was turned from him , but there was something about her that made his heart stand still . |
| 9 | These performances directed by Kuijken have many of the qualities that made his set of the Haydn ‘ Paris ’ Symphonies , also on Virgin , so winning . |
| 10 | A red hot rage that made his hands tremble . |
| 11 | Though his main stock-in-trade was probably small surveying and drawing instruments , it was his large astronomical instruments that made his reputation . |
| 12 | It was the same quality that made his fascination with money so inoffensive . |
| 13 | Blagg tried for a head shot and missed , felt a punch in the chest that made his knees fold , but he fired again and saw the pistol fall loose . |
| 14 | Luke 's eyes licked over her in a way that made his answer perfectly clear . |
| 15 | She flattered herself this was done discreetly , and was noticed by no-one , though the yearning in her look as she gazed at him would be obvious to a child of five , and the staff made frequent jokes about her loving him with a love that made his life a burden . |
| 16 | Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him . |
| 17 | Saw , too , the tiny flecks and threads of topaz and hazel that made his eyes such a compelling and disturbing feature . |
| 18 | She had a tension about her like a strung bow , and every bit as lethal , and she had a piercing beauty — why had he never marked it , he who had known her nearly three years ? that made his heart contract as he looked at her . |
| 19 | Luke strode along beside her , hands pushed easily into the pockets of the leather jacket he was wearing over jeans and a blue knit shirt that made his skin look even more tanned , his hair richly black . |
| 20 | He was watching her with that same intensity she 'd seen in his face before , the one that made his eyes seem like dark sapphires . |
| 21 | A Mattel Kriss-Kross mountain bike with stabilisers had caught his neck , when he looked up , and brought him to the ground yet it was the red and yellow tractor which applied the pressure that made his neck give way with an awful crack . |
| 22 | She found large-eared Tony and made his ears larger . |
| 23 | But the important quality about Dick Crossman , which made him unique among Members of Parliament and made his testament to the understanding of British Government unique , is that he was the pure , 100 per cent archetypal don , a don through and through , albeit a don whose special subject was politics in practice . |
| 24 | Mick picked up his rifle and the mess tins and made his way towards the house . |
| 25 | In 1926 he built studios at Elstree and made his first tentative move into production with The Woman Tempted . |
| 26 | In 1948 he moved to the ancient house of Daneway , near Sapperton , where he ground his own flour , baked his own bread and made his own paper on which to print his poems on his own press . |
| 27 | A very fair admission , McLeish thought admiringly , and made his standard speech about the need , if he might , to come back on various points as they occurred to him . |
| 28 | Early in his career he was thought of primarily as a left-arm spinner , and made his debut for Barbados in 1941–2 as such . |
| 29 | He loved scandal and intrigue and made his contribution in low , conspiratorial tones . |
| 30 | Still holding the note-book , he crawled out of the hide and made his way down to the edge of the bigger of the two pools . |