Example sentences of "[pron] was make [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was made a bit of a snob . |
| 2 | The sickening that I was making a mess of the first real pitch of the first real pitch of IV± , and that I 'd have to take my sack off if I was going to stay on , swept over me . |
| 3 | I was making a sort of comparison . ’ |
| 4 | If I was making a career of this I guess I 'd resent Dixie coming with me . |
| 5 | I first noticed its behaviour ( independently ! ) in 1936 , when I was making an estimate of the brightness of Shedir , and found that Gamma had brightened appreciably from its catalogue magnitude of 2.2 . |
| 6 | And I had a vague sense that someone was making a film of us making the film ! ) |
| 7 | Through these chutes of slates you could inspect the weather , which was making a comeback of the stalled-career variety , the sun all rusty and out of condition , glowing then failing suddenly like a damp torch . |
| 8 | For this , and other sculptures in Ireland , she was made a Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1907 . |
| 9 | The following year she was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths , and in 1986 a Lady Liveryman . |
| 10 | She knew that she was making a spectacle of herself with her childish outburst , but she could n't seem to help herself . |
| 11 | She was making a drawing of a tall woman in flowing sleeves . |
| 12 | She subsided and looked around the bar to see if she was making an exhibition of herself . |
| 13 | A good example of that that I read about it was the naturalist who was making a study of snakes . |
| 14 | When he had finished it , he leaned back in his chair and , resting his hands on his stomach , he watched Sammy who was making a series of strange noises in his food while his tail continued to wag from side to side . |
| 15 | A while later she married and had a second baby ; it was made a ward of court . |
| 16 | It was made an oblast of the Russian Federation and repopulated largely by Russians , but in 1954 it was ceded to the Ukraine . |
| 17 | As is well known , it was made the basis of a reconstruction of the events by V. Tcherikover and E. Bickerman . |
| 18 | It was made the victim of frustration … but is to be freed from the shackles of mortality and enter upon the liberty and splendour of the children of God . ’ |
| 19 | It was making a scrap-merchant of her . |
| 20 | By the time he sold the brewery , for £25 million , in 1986 , it was making a profit of £1.7 million a year . |
| 21 | He was made a liveryman of the Goldsmiths ' Company on 13 March 1740 . |
| 22 | ( His fecklessness was on an appealingly grand scale : when he was made a yeoman of the guard , responsible for fire-fighting equipment , his negligence permitted the fire which burnt down the Houses of Parliament ) . |
| 23 | Through his great-grandfather , Alfonso IX of Leon , he was distantly related to Edward I 's first wife , Eleanor of Castile [ q.v. ] : a connection which may have promoted both the marriage of Henry 's sister , Isabella , to Edward 's supporter , John de Vescy ( died 1289 , q.v. ) , in 1279 or 1280 , and Henry 's own entrée into English affairs in 1297 , when he was made a knight of the royal household . |
| 24 | In 1926 he was made a knight of Dannebrog ( Denmark ) and in 1929 made a knight of the Vasa ( Sweden ) . |
| 25 | In 1643 he was made a marshal of France and his first command with that rank required him to reorganise the army of Weimar which had been smashed at the battle of Tüttlingen . |
| 26 | He had stood for them all , when he was made a hero of the Soviet Union by Stalin himself . |
| 27 | Honours flowed : an honorary M.Sc in 1956 from the University of Wales ; the MBE in 1964 ; and highest accolade of all , he was made a member of Bards in 1975 . |
| 28 | Through influential friends , he was made a member of the Society of the Middle Temple in 1820 , and placed in the office of two eminent solicitors , a Mr. Justice Patterson , and a Sir Nicholas Tindal who later became the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales . |
| 29 | He was made a member of the King 's Guard at Whitehall in 1641–2 . |
| 30 | In 1807 he was made a member of the Marylebone Vestry . |