Example sentences of "to make [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This frightened me but seemed to make me a hero in the eyes of the Dutch who broke out into a fever of winks and jerked-up thumbs and V-signs all round me . |
| 2 | One Christmas , Mother managed to find the time to make me a dolly , but only because I pestered . |
| 3 | On the one hand , I want fatherhood to make me a better person because I believe that , once I have the responsibility of looking after a child , giving up smoking and drinking and spending money on the motorbike will be a doddle . |
| 4 | ‘ But what used to make me a bit uptight was people looking at us like some wild , eccentric set-up . |
| 5 | He wrote that his mother 's ‘ hopeful ambition ran high of being able to make me a good scholar . ’ |
| 6 | He did , however , offer to make me a mackintosh . |
| 7 | The King ordered his people to make me a bed , using six hundred Lilliputian beds . |
| 8 | I was an adult and that was enough to make me a target . |
| 9 | She used to make me a plum duff , the old currant duffs and anything like that my mother would make for us . |
| 10 | He did n't want to waste yet another that way ; he did n't want to make me a betrayer ; he wanted to keep me , as far as he still could . |
| 11 | She had forgotten that her papa was supposed to be dead , and had spoken of him in the present tense , a fact not wasted on Dr Neil , who made no comment , but asked politely , ‘ And does all this stockmarket bargaining mean that you are going to make me a cup of tea , or not ? |
| 12 | ‘ McAllister 's first duty is always to the Master , and so I commanded her to make me a pot of coffee . |
| 13 | Ludo wants to make me a cup of hot chocolate . |
| 14 | ‘ But Mrs Aitken told me I 'd just missed him , so I got her to make me a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 15 | That 's to make me a cup of tea . |
| 16 | That 's to make me a cup of tea when I get home and can try it . |
| 17 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 18 | When I come round the Lord 's table , it 's not to make me a better Christian , it 's not to make me a better person , a more religious person , a more spiritual person it 's a confession of faith , apart from being an act of obedience , it is a confession of faith . |
| 19 | When I come round the Lord 's table , it 's not to make me a better Christian , it 's not to make me a better person , a more religious person , a more spiritual person it 's a confession of faith , apart from being an act of obedience , it is a confession of faith . |
| 20 | The one as wanted to make thee a prizefighter . ’ |
| 21 | We widened the steps slightly to make them a secure and comfortable width to walk and wheel a barrow down . |
| 22 | He postures as a political activist , and the solidarity forced on the quintet by Shatov 's murder might be expected to make them a more effective instrument . |
| 23 | BR has already begun the installation of aircraft-type ‘ black box ’ data recorders on new Network SouthEast trains , and is examining whether to make them a standard fitting in all trains . |
| 24 | If friends are foolhardy but kind enough to let you loose in their gardens , it is a very nice idea to make them a small picture from some of the flowers you have gathered and subsequently pressed . |
| 25 | Whenever posts were internally advertised rumour was rife as staff were quick to identify whose experience came nearest to the job description to make them a likely candidate for the post . |
| 26 | The Bosnian Serbs refused to sign the Vance-Owen plan because , if it were ever implemented , it would make it impossible for this generation of Serbs to link Serbia proper with the Serb-held parts of Bosnia and Croatia to make them a single state . |
| 27 | I 've tried to make them a little bit longer . |
| 28 | The only publishing company to sell on the basis solely of their imprint , their sales figures alone are enough to make them a publishing phenomenon . |
| 29 | There 's no harm in using highly processed foods occasionally but it 's best not to make them a regular part of the family 's diet . |
| 30 | Please , Tom when er placing photographs in Direct , please try to make them a little more appropriate . |