Example sentences of "[noun pl] that made " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 .
2 ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’
3 He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle .
4 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 .
5 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 ’ ' .
6 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 .
7 Julius stood in the doorway , and there was a bright light in his eyes that made her feel very alarmed .
8 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 .
9 Blue eyes that made it hard to look away .
10 Blue eyes that made her heart give an alarming little lurch .
11 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 .
12 He smiled , and there was a glint in his eyes that made Rachel catch her breath .
13 Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat .
14 It was of a man ; huge , encrusted with bony protrusions that made the head appear square , as though he was wearing a helmet .
15 He put little slips of paper in the entries that made up his fragile narrative or non-narrative .
16 It was Smarties that made the coloured hand prints on the wall ; with Smarty ‘ buns ’ she would charm all the grown-ups , and with Smarty ‘ prezzies ’ they would encourage her performances and tricks ; with Smarties she would entertain her invisible friends ; Smarties bribed her to bed , to bath , to the toilet .
17 In practice , the ambiguities of class blurred the theory ; rich Kenyans had privileges that made them virtually equal to the British , and a large number of the British — including the instruments of power , the soldiers — were not accepted as equals by the Establishment .
18 The salaries of staff , the replacement of vital instruments and many large items had to be funded from the National Health Service funds , so that there was never enough left to buy the extra comforts that made all the difference to the welfare of the patients .
19 He rushed in , then , with many words , many more words about awfulness and pills , and if onlys and sadness ; words that were curses and words that made the issue opaque and words that sounded trivial because he was so angry .
20 With words that made them known ’
21 After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife .
22 The boy shook one of the branches that made the framework of the hide .
23 Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris .
24 Scenes of triumph in the papacy 's long struggle for political and spiritual dominion were presented in pictures that made contemporary and future generations aware of past landmarks in its eventful history .
25 Putting a companionable arm round her shoulders that made her shiver with awareness , he urged her in the direction of the village .
26 Reynolds it was who strung together the rackets that made those blistering returns .
27 Finally , he shouted to all dealers : " Ring all the clients that made money by coming into Helene of London on your advice .
28 Rebel Males by Graham McCann ( Hamish Hamilton , £10.99 ) — Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando and James Dean , the subjects of this literate and readable study , pioneered a new kind of rebel as screen hero : they exuded primeval , ambiguous sexuality , and were not afraid of roles that made them look vulnerable , foolish or insecure .
29 Graham Greene fairly remarked of the amorphous string of sequences that made up Rembrandt that ‘ no amount of money spent on expensive sets , on careful photography , will atone for the lack of a storyline , the continuity and drive of a well-constructed plot . ’
30 In Warmia and Mazuria , two of the districts that made up East Prussia , the Poles suffered serious reverses , gaining only 3 of the 28 disputed villages .
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