Example sentences of "made [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . ’ |
| 2 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . |
| 3 | After about a year I gave in to the pull and discovered that fatherhood has made me a much more serious person . |
| 4 | My fear has made me a prisoner in my own home ; I go out only for essential shopping . |
| 5 | That 's made me a lot calmer . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's made me a mint . ’ |
| 7 | I suppose the problem was that my interest in birds had made me a bit of a loner . |
| 8 | It had made me a coward as well as a lecher . |
| 9 | It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead . |
| 10 | ‘ I am older than the king ; and grief has made me a man . ’ |
| 11 | On the other hand , my journeys in Wiltshire had made me a familiar figure to the police , and I consulted them about evacuating from London a distinguished man , of whose name , I need hardly say , they had never heard . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've made me a soldier . ’ |
| 13 | the Army 's made me a lot better person . |
| 14 | ‘ If you 'd made me a cup of coffee , ’ I say , ‘ I could have walked home . ’ |
| 15 | He 's made me a cup of tea ! |
| 16 | He 's made me a new person ! |
| 17 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 18 | ‘ I say , Commander , you 've made me an awfully happy WAAF . |
| 19 | Indeed , had the student been in a different ( e.g. less selective ) school or college , his/her performance might well have made him/her a success . |
| 20 | Once colleagues and still friends , their similar redbrick-professor-writer lifestyles and largely campus subject-matter have made them a joined personality . |
| 21 | Cynics believe that the forums have come about merely because royal patronage has made them a fashionable activity for business leaders seeking a knighthood . |
| 22 | I 've already made them a promise , those kids we 're going to have . |
| 23 | The relatively low cost of long distance inter-city bus services , combined with their comfort and strict passenger control has , for instance , made them a highly competitive force when looked at from the viewpoint of older or economy conscious passengers . |
| 24 | West Indies , for their part , are simply playing their own game and , since it has made them the most powerful team in the world , can not see why they should deprive themselves of their trump cards just because other countries can not produce trump cards of their own . |
| 25 | Moreover , the large number of coins which have survived and the way they have survived in hoards has made them the most datable objects from the ancient or medieval worlds that we possess . |
| 26 | The haunting sound of the whistle echoing through mountains at night , the thundering plunge across the plains , the astonishing restraint of such powerful giants as they inch in and out of stations have made them the inspiration of poets , writers , composers and film makers . |
| 27 | The former county boroughs had preferred the unitary approach which would have made them the core of enlarged areas , but when a two-tier system was adopted it was obviously preferable from their point of view to obtain metropolitan district status and thus retain as many services as possible . |
| 28 | The technology has certainly come of age and whereas battery powered tools can never compete in power with mains operated ones , their increasing sales have made them the fastest developing aspect of woodworking technology today . |
| 29 | Such altered viruses can transduce non-replicating cells , including differentiated epithelial cells of the respiratory tract and elsewhere , and this has made them the chosen vectors for genetic therapy of cystic fibrosis . |
| 30 | At the last minute , enough congressmen rally round to get the package through the House of Representatives : not because they believe in it , but because Mr Clinton has made them an offer they can not refuse , or worse , because they pity him . |