Example sentences of "[conj] it made [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to obey her father , although it made her very sad . |
| 2 | Although it made him uneasy , he could not tell for some moments what it was . |
| 3 | The first Labour government singularly failed to do anything about the level of unemployment , although it made it easier for the unemployed to obtain unemployment relief and extended benefit . |
| 4 | It shows that about three-quarters of the male respondents replied that the tax system had no influence on their work effort , 15 per cent replied that it made them work more and 11 per cent that it made them work less . |
| 5 | It shows that about three-quarters of the male respondents replied that the tax system had no influence on their work effort , 15 per cent replied that it made them work more and 11 per cent that it made them work less . |
| 6 | But to complain that its effect was therefore paralysingly glum would no more have occurred to her as fair than to complain that it made her feel fat . |
| 7 | How could she say that it made her feel uncomfortable ? |
| 8 | The most upsetting thing was that it made her realise just how much she had been allowing him to guide her in the decision , putting her desire to leave the nurses ' home and her pleasure at Dr Entwistle 's recommendation very much in second place . |
| 9 | Geoff Tulloch once advanced the opinion that it made her look like an air hostess . |
| 10 | She glanced up at the blackened night sky , pin-pointed with stars so wondrous that it made her feel like crying , and wished she were home , warm and safe in bed . |
| 11 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 12 | He was so wide of the mark that it made her smile . |
| 13 | Despite some criticisms that it made him look like Michael Foot , it was a media success . |
| 14 | Ironically , it was so bitter that it made him a liability to the early Fascist movement , from whose main body he was later to break away . |
| 15 | He felt a spasm of hatred so intense , so physical that it made him retch . |
| 16 | Perturbed by the keenness of his loss , afraid that it made him , in truth , a stuffed-shirt Englishman as Hannele had assumed , Edward Carrington went to the bathroom and began to fill the mighty iron tub . |
| 17 | Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting , the ducks beautifully camouflaged , sitting tight as long as they could , then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag . |
| 18 | I waited to see her face tense as if it was an airtight balloon on a stick ; never mind that it made me choke somewhere in my chest . |
| 19 | Ironically the price of sterling went up so high that it made it very difficult for us to sell our other manufactured goods and many people are now of the belief that because of the North Sea oil price rises , this had an adverse affect on our economy , making it more difficult for us to sell manufacturing goods because the pound was very strong against other currencies . |
| 20 | The significance of Rookes v. Barnard was that it made it clear that a threat of a breach of contract was unlawful for this purpose but the criticism has been made ( and this indeed was the opinion of the Court of Appeal ) that if intimidation is extended to threats to break contracts ‘ it would overturn or outflank some elementary principles of contract law , ’ notably the doctrine of privity of contract , which holds that one who is not a party to a contract can not found a claim upon it or sue for breach of it . |
| 21 | The full implications of the photoelectric effect were not realized until 1925 , when Werner Heisenberg pointed out that it made it impossible to measure the position of a particle exactly . |
| 22 | She was getting her dress all dirty , and it made her cough . |
| 23 | It made her howl with bitterness when she was alone in the weeks that followed , and it made her grit her teeth as she strode through the streets looking for revenge , or for her baby , or for Dorothy , not too sure what she was looking for but usually coming home with nothing better than a bag of old tins . |
| 24 | She realized she had never seen the servants before except as part of the backdrop of Summer Lodge , now she saw that they were part of her life , real people with loves and loyalties especially to her and it made her feel suddenly humble . |
| 25 | It was Dolly 's first encounter with the imperturbable nature of a British Army sergeant , and it made her want to spit . |
| 26 | And it made her , of course , an ideal interpreter of Mahler . |
| 27 | And it made her look at Simon again , he was the messenger , he was a link , it had to mean something . |
| 28 | It was the first diet she 'd ever tried and it made her feel good about herself for the first time , too . |
| 29 | The cubicle was narrow , and it made her feel safe . |
| 30 | She thought of the red roses , and it made her feel quite empty inside . |