Example sentences of "made [pn reflx] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yer made yerself vulnerable , ’ said the Old Stager irritably . |
| 2 | the place , I mean , the chap down at the housing down there , try to say to me we made ourselves homeless |
| 3 | ‘ We made ourselves some ro is , and when we 'd eaten them , I set out for home . |
| 4 | We were cooking for ourselves so we settled in for the evening and made ourselves comfortable . |
| 5 | He made himself agreeable to the earl 's squires in the stableyard , and kept his ears open for any revealing mentions of Robert Bossu 's tastes , temperament and interests , and what he garnered was encouraging . |
| 6 | In the process , according to Belgrade press reports , Arkan made himself rich on looted gold , cars and electronics equipment . |
| 7 | Nevertheless they also took care to ensure that no one made himself vulnerable , no one put himself at risk by careless speech in public assembly . |
| 8 | Even Mr Sugden made himself available to meet the visitor , ready to assume that here was the returning warrior , eager to see areas of the country which only he could recommend . |
| 9 | I am quite pleased that Auckland fly-half Grant Fox has changed his mind and made himself available for international action . |
| 10 | He went off on a political career and before long was a Member of the European Parliament , always in the news as he made himself available for interviews and revealed a great flair for leading controversial campaigns . |
| 11 | Nevertheless he maintained a friendly attitude towards me and after my initial difficulty made himself available whenever he was needed . |
| 12 | God the Creator , the God who had come alongside men in Jesus , now made himself available to come within their very personalities . |
| 13 | But when the great general of the Civil War , Oliver Cromwell , lost his temper with the Rump Parliament for trying to monopolize power , and made himself supreme instead , he regretted this war between Protestant countries and set out to make peace between them as soon as possible . |
| 14 | Mum had said that if he made himself invisible people would like him and he wanted that very much . |
| 15 | Bénezet slipped into a carrel as near as he could approach unnoticed , and made himself invisible in the shadows . |
| 16 | Last night , after her parents had gone up to bed , and Aubrey very tactfully made himself scarce , I had a chance to ask her . |
| 17 | When he saw Mrs Goreng disembarking from her jeep , he at once made himself scarce , retiring through the back of the shop to his living-quarters and instructing me to deal with this dissatisfied , difficult , and , in all likelihood , dangerous customer . |
| 18 | When he first came the villagers wanted to get rid of him but he would n't go , and as he made himself useful they came to endure him . |
| 19 | A former officer in the so-called pink Panther Brigade under Rifat Assad , he held a master 's degree from the University of Kiev and , as Coleman quickly discovered , worked harder than anybody because he was desperate to get to America and Hurley kept promising to get a visa for him if he made himself useful . |
| 20 | Cornelius made himself comfy on the stool and sniffed at the coffee pot . |
| 21 | He made himself ill with the worry . |
| 22 | He kept gulping it down till he made himself ill ; |
| 23 | He was coughing so much that he made himself sick . |
| 24 | Fernandez , winner of 19 of his 25 bouts , landed some useful shots at the start before Hardy took control and in the third Hardy made the mistake of giving Fernandez too much of a target , but thereafter made himself more scarce , hitting and moving effectively . |
| 25 | And , while they were arguing , Conradin made himself another piece of toast . |
| 26 | He crept back into the kitchen and made himself another cup of tea . |
| 27 | In that way , so Eliot has suggested , Pound made himself responsible for a whole ‘ period ’ , the period of his lifetime , anxiously impatient that it too lift itself to a higher level . |
| 28 | In 1892 he began an involvement with Earls Court , by laying out the grounds for the international horticultural exhibition ; but the industrial exhibition of 1894 , of which he was a director , was a financial failure , and Milner made himself responsible for some of the debts . |
| 29 | Nearer and nearer the squares came to the picture until there were only four left and Ferdinando made himself ready for the journey to Leghorn , where he would take over Gigia and Oreste from Mr Ogilvy , who continued to Rome , and see one to Florence and the other to Siena . |
| 30 | Back at the house Philip made himself some tea and ate some cereal . |