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

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1 Rosen eked out a conversation with her and without Leon Kennedy , who was sewn into an isolation that made him more powerfully present .
2 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 .
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 ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’
5 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 .
6 His anger reached out with a deadly force that made her flinch back from him .
7 I provided the calm , the cleanliness , the order and nourish-ment that made it possible for him to work .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 That was the obsession that made me write this . ’
11 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 .
12 It was a command that made her even more resentful .
13 Julius stood in the doorway , and there was a bright light in his eyes that made her feel very alarmed .
14 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 .
15 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 ’ ' .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Blue eyes that made it hard to look away .
19 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 .
20 It must be his over-sensitive suspicious mind that made him see a relieved relaxing of those muscled shoulders .
21 Michele was answering with a brevity that made it abundantly clear that he was disinclined to talk about the sculptor .
22 Giving her a long , slow appraisal that made her wriggle uncomfortably , he asked softly , ‘ Decided to rejoin the human race ? ’
23 She shook her head and felt colour wash into her cheeks as his eyes drifted slowly over her face in a very thorough appraisal that made her feel both weak and excited .
24 It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one .
25 Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’
26 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 .
27 On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder .
28 With words that made them known ’
29 After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife .
30 ‘ And then they painted the walls of his office with a chemical that made him lose his mind , ’ she was saying to her brother Phil , who was sitting next to her .
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