Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that make us " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , if I 'm a peeping Tom that makes us about even , would n't you say ? ’ |
| 2 | I know so you know different people that make us laugh . |
| 3 | The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is the distinctiveness of this particular anatomical colour that makes us forget the pure white quartzites that also occur at this level , even in our own Midlands ( as the Stiperstones Quartzite of west Shropshire ) . |
| 5 | Words that will express something of the deep complexity that makes us precisely the way we are , from the momentary effect of the barometer to the force that created men distinct from trees . |
| 6 | And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies . |
| 7 | It is because no institution or individual is proof against the third essential ingredient that makes us what we are — the Zeitgeist , the spirit of the times . |
| 8 | The daily , reassuring visit from the patrolling doctor was no more — as if by merely walking the rounds he or she had some magic formula that made us safe . |
| 9 | Well then , also at dusk , of course , the other thing that made us more tired than ever , the Air Raid siren used to go off at night , so then the oil rooms are checked , and you can hear it going over , and you know how the German planes used to go , but you could hear it going over and of course in that black-out then , they used to in the moon light bright along the river Severn , we used to hear them going over and we used to think ’ Are they going to Bristol tonight , or Birmingham or Buckingham ; whether you 'd want to know ’ . |
| 10 | It is n't just bad behaviour that makes us wish the ground would open under us : there are times when you 'd gladly disown your child when she gets to the top of the slide , freezes there and screams hysterically to be carried down . |