Example sentences of "[vb -s] made [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless it is an utterance of the Amis who has made himself known on other occasions , and it can be none the worse for being read by those who are able and disposed to pay intelligent attention to this range of information — which is not to imply that the information may not be disastrously misunderstood . |
| 2 | The very latest Cairo tittle-tattle is that President Hosni Mubarak ( who has a reputation for honesty ) has made himself rich by taking a cut from every barrel of oil exported . |
| 3 | But now Mr Gorbachev has made himself the unpalatable alternative . |
| 4 | He has made himself appear a poodle of the executive . ‘ |
| 5 | In this way by not acceding to anger and resentment , he has made himself into a better son . |
| 6 | He has made himself so by resolving never to make the same mistake twice . |
| 7 | The same desire to articulate theology as something of beauty and of joy in the light of the God who has made himself known to us in Jesus Christ runs through all thirteen volumes , and makes them a unique achievement . |
| 8 | To cope with the aftershock , Mr Perez has made himself unpopular by bringing in painful economic reforms . |
| 9 | When Faraway Moses , who was once Count St Sylvain and a Black Rider , is captured and imprisoned , Jasper the Terrible , who has made himself responsible for the boy in his own household , offers to release the man who has become like a father to Dick if he will reveal the names of the other Confederates . |
| 10 | For it is that history , and that revelation , in which it is believed that God has made Himself known . |
| 11 | The pair of them have lands both here in England and over in Normandy , and since Geoffrey of Anjou has made himself master of Normandy , on his son 's behalf , every man in Stephen 's backing fears for his lands over there , and must be tempted to change sides to keep Anjou 's favour . |
| 12 | Alistair erm he 's , he 's made himself er he has made himself coordinator . |
| 13 | It seems , then , that not only may an entrepreneur-producer be a monopolist because he happens at the same time to be a monopolist resource owner , he may be a monopolist because he has made himself a monopolist resource owner in the course of his entrepreneurial activities . |
| 14 | During the passage of this Bill , my hon. Friend has made himself an expert on the subject . |
| 15 | Apple has made itself unpopular by suing Digital Research , MicroSoft and Hewlett-Packard to protect the ‘ look and feel ’ of the Apple Macintosh graphical user interface . |
| 16 | By waiting so long , it has made itself vulnerable to a systemic collapse . |
| 17 | Former Puma star , Marcelo Loffreda , thinks that ‘ Our rugby as a whole has deteriorated due to the way it has been managed by our officials and this crisis has made itself felt in the Pumas in the last two years . |
| 18 | There must be very many such incidents in which his influence has made itself felt in the West Riding ; and many staff and children who , without knowing it , have cause to be grateful for his work for them . |
| 19 | The radical unpredictability of individual events in quantum theory has made itself felt . |
| 20 | The characteristic attitude in large-scale economic management , both inside government and in the private sector , which has made itself increasingly felt during the post-war period , is the pursuit of intellectual coherence . |
| 21 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 22 | Says our observer , ‘ Madonna has made herself what she is by ambition , not by training . |
| 23 | Linda Kelly has made herself so familiar with these redoubtable historical figures that she writes about them as though they were her next-door neighbours . |
| 24 | Alistair erm he 's , he 's made himself er he has made himself coordinator . |
| 25 | which he 's made himself |