Example sentences of "[adv] made [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it sounds ridiculous saying it now , but what eventually made me decide to move was when John Mayall brought horns into the BB line-up ; I was so dumb that I thought , ‘ If it 's horns , it 's not blues . ’ |
| 2 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 3 | Someone suggested she touch up her lipstick , but make-up only made her look more than ever like the Spitting Image puppet of Bette Midler . |
| 4 | But it only made her smile . |
| 5 | It only made them laugh more . |
| 6 | Telling the poorer workers that others were producing more , simply led to demoralisation ; they already knew that , and telling them so only made them feel worse . |
| 7 | The bracelet not only made them fly , but had taken them to the moon . |
| 8 | The thought of this not only made him feel uneasy , but embarrassed . |
| 9 | Being spurned by Malcolm McLaren only made him want the group more . |
| 10 | Her outburst only made him laugh . |
| 11 | She was no feather-weight , but even the stairs only made him breathe a shade faster . |
| 12 | ( 128 ) Other women — they only made me love you more . |
| 13 | ‘ He only made me cry once , ’ she mumbled against his sweater . |
| 14 | Being with the nuns only made it feel worse . |
| 15 | To watch the ceaseless spinning for too long made you feel sick and dizzy and a bit out of step with everything else . |
| 16 | He had less than a tenth of the jigsaw puzzle pieces , but even the fragments of a picture he was able to put together made him ache for Anne . |
| 17 | like I said we at least to go on one complex exercise every month which , although they ca n't physically make you go on it there was , you know , they more or less made you go sort of thing pay to do and then we were there the other weekend we had one of these weekends where be more fun , really hard work though it 'll be more fun for |
| 18 | The bridge was like a symbol which suddenly made me realise what is happening to that country . |
| 19 | the strangeness of that thought suddenly made him miss the château . |
| 20 | As Derek came close to him , Jack could smell fry-up on his breath and it suddenly made him feel sick again . |
| 21 | He continued as if she had n't spoken , his voice dropping to a level of intimacy that suddenly made it feel as though they were alone , not being listened to by thousands of people . |
| 22 | There was every possible opportunity and we discussed it ; he was keen but not importunate , which naturally made me love him more and be more inclined to give him what he was so sweetly not insisting on , but something held me back . |
| 23 | That alone made him feel foolish . |
| 24 | That alone made him foresee difficulties . |
| 25 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |
| 26 | The handbrake was extensively used to cope with icy conditions on what seemed to be never-ending hairpins and headlights in the distance changing direction constantly made us wonder whether the word insanity had taken on a new meaning [ going up and down snowy mountains in a 30-year-old car ] . |
| 27 | Frills and furbelows just made her look stupid . |
| 28 | ‘ He just made one laugh so much , ’ he told me . |
| 29 | You just made me kick my ankle and it really hurt . |
| 30 | Helen just made me laugh but this was sober business . |