Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too large an increase in personal taxation could lose them votes and deny them further ministerial office . |
| 2 | Roman weapons used the bow as their mechanical basis , but the medieval ones tended to use the sling , which made them heavier and more cumbersome . |
| 3 | The majority of people that went through that service all had some recollection of things they did n't enjoy very much but they by and large thoroughly enjoyed their experience in the Army , it livened them up , it made them better men and we have got after all one of the best armies if not the best army in the world , it 's got to come from |
| 4 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 5 | For a moment the noise was indescribable , much of it contributed by McAllister , who set up a keening cry , and , in endeavouring to make matters better by dabbing at the debris on Mrs Darrell 's lap with a damask napkin , made them worse . |
| 6 | The bronze was cast in standard ingots that were about 0.9 metres long with inward-curving sides that made them easier to carry on the shoulder , as shown on one of the contemporary Egyptian tomb paintings depicting Minoan emissaries . |
| 7 | A coastguard spokesman said the other two ‘ undoubtedly survived because they were wearing lifejackets , which also made them easier to spot in the water . ’ |
| 8 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 9 | Several states had passed restrictive laws since the Supreme Court 's 1989 ruling allowing them greater opportunity to limit the availability of abortion ( in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services — see pp. 36809-10 ) . |
| 10 | She did not think them greater , failed entirely to see why she should . |
| 11 | Good deeds were good in themselves , and the ears and eyes and approval of the world would not make them better — quite the reverse . |
| 12 | These major disasters are compounded by the fact that those people believed that the NHS would make them better . |
| 13 | The great danger of the proposals , I said , was not that they would fail to improve our schools , but that they would make them worse . |
| 14 | But the irony of the current position is that the Conservatives have all the same problems — but with a policy mix that will make them worse ! |
| 15 | But reformers said jailing kids would make them worse . |
| 16 | It 'll only make them worse . ’ |
| 17 | Strengthening your muscles need not make them bigger , but firm and taut . |
| 18 | Did it make them stronger in their faith so that when they leave school and face the terrible temptation of the world , the fact that they danced on the altar during mass strengthen them against the temptation ? |
| 19 | They want to hear truths which do not make them narrower but broader , which do not obscure but enlighten , which do not run off them like water , but pierce them to the marrow . ’ |
| 20 | By simplifying and emphasizing the features of major strokes we can make them easier to teach but paddle strokes are only copies of the real thing . |
| 21 | Apart from the cosmetic effect , this would make them easier to maintain . |
| 22 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
| 23 | Now these are n't , oh right , the strange black things that some of you are holding in your hands are called riders , and these are end leaves for the storage binder , and the idea is that they will have protective pages that are in the storage binder that will make them easier to turn . |
| 24 | Erm peacocks ' tails may make them beautiful and more reproductively successful with peahens , but they do n't make them fitter in terms of erm life expectancy . |
| 25 | USE GAMES … can they make them harder ? … can they understand each others ' rules ? |
| 26 | USE GAMES can they make them harder ? can they understand each other 's rules ? |
| 27 | Only , again , why does that make me worse than Nicky ? |
| 28 | She says if it does n't make me better , it might make somebody else 's mum better . |
| 29 | I do n't think any prison will make me better , but it might make me not come back . |
| 30 | Perhaps my Occulobe organ grants me keener micro-eyesight than yours ? |