Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] that made [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 2 | Lastly she went to hang her towel and arrange her toiletries in the bathroom , only to find several thick towels of varying sizes already hanging there for her use , and an array of soaps , lotions and hygiene products that made her own cheaply bought things seem scarcely worthy of being unpacked . |
| 3 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 4 | My mother would visit on Speech Day and Sports Day , wearing a Jaeger-style home-made camel coat and a pillbox hat , or her green velvet coat that made her look , I thought , like the Queen . |
| 5 | In the centre of the road was a six-foot colour portrait of President Assad , an artist 's impression of the Syrian leader in air force uniform that made him look like an elderly Battle of Britain pilot , eyes narrowed against the sun , gaze fixed on the heavens . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was a continual clanking , rotating sound , a whirring rhythmic , steel-against-steel sound that made your teeth wince . |
| 8 | But the counter-argument still held good : that it was the operational control and not the manufacture of a weapon system that made it independent . |
| 9 | Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him . |
| 10 | The wretched state to which the company has been brought is nevertheless a tragedy , a tragedy for all the towns in America and across the world where IBM was until recently the biggest employer , a tragedy for all its surviving employees , who now have to operate in an environment pervaded with gloom and a sense of failure , a tragedy for all the data processing managers that made it their business to know all that could be known about the company and its products and culture , who now find their hard-earned knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset . |
| 11 | The bar of the Skein of Geese was the kind of drinking establishment Harry detested : fiddly little bowls of cashew nuts and olives littering every surface ; an effeminate barman who looked as if he would not know a handpump from a cocktail umbrella ; lighting so subdued a fellow could not see to count his change ; and a tape of Glenn Miller standards that made him positively nostalgic for the reception area 's bastardized Vivaldi . |
| 12 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 13 | They gave her some astonishing Ophir crystal that made her feel three metres tall and very sharp . |
| 14 | Every time they came forward , you expected something to happen ( perhaps It was sitting in the north bank with the Cockney scum that made me think this ! ! ) . |
| 15 | He seemed only mildly surprised when she asked him , in the appalling police jargon that made her cringe , to accompany her to the local police station . |
| 16 | It was sheer , blind gut instinct that made her go to the porter 's lodge and lie . |
| 17 | Something — that same gut instinct that made her get his address alerted her . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Maybe it 's the fact that the Goliath retailed at around £60 with a plywood case that made its demise inevitable , even without the attentions of C.F.Martin . |
| 20 | As Jimmy , Hoffman elaborates the film role that made him famous , Benjamin in The Graduate , and he is a thoroughly charming actor with sufficient off-beat idiosyncrasies to make him a spiny delight . |
| 21 | Our three pictures marked A , B and C show three well-known TV personalities — A is Jim Bergerac , B is Inspector Morse and C is the Larkin family — and the cars they drive in the TV series that made them famous . |
| 22 | If you persisted in trying to talk to her , she would heave herself out of her chair and turn up the volume to a decibel level that made your ears ache . |
| 23 | The eventual acceptance of Lévi-Strauss and Barthes by their respective disciplines indicates the value orientations that made their interpretation possible . |