Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Japanese , ever imitative , took their ideas from the Chinese and made them their own . |
| 2 | In particular the fact that so many officials had bought their offices and thus made them their personal property ( see p. 126 ) made it very hard to dismiss them , since the government could seldom afford to refund the purchase price . |
| 3 | He was the kind of man who absorbed ideas unconsciously , made them his own , and pushed them to new limits . |
| 4 | " He carried off his subjects ' wives , daughters and kinswomen by force and made them his concubines ; when he had sated his own lust on them he handed them down for his soldiers to enjoy . |
| 5 | Adam had only heard one other make these sounds and when he first heard Anne make them his memory escape failed and those two nights were startlingly evoked , so disturbingly in fact that he had the terrible delusion that Anne was doing it to mock him . |
| 6 | ‘ Richardson thinks he can make them his kind of people . ’ |
| 7 | And if I 'm friendly towards you in future , you 'll remind yourself , ‘ That man nearly made me his mistress — I must be ice-cold to him , ’ and ice-cold is what you 'll be . ’ |
| 8 | There was a lot to do , and Mr. Andrew made me his secretary . |
| 9 | But then you picked me up , and you made me your mission — and in spite of everything that I 'd lost , I gained something that I 'd never had before . |
| 10 | He commands them , ‘ Go , then , to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Go , then , to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples … ’ |
| 12 | Shall I do that , Lissa — shall I hunt out your secrets and make them my own ? ’ |
| 13 | And make them your most accessible . |
| 14 | ‘ Make them your models . |
| 15 | City goalkeeper Tony Coton last night presented England manager Graham Taylor with an ultimatum : ‘ Make me your number two or forget me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I think mistress ought to have made you her farm manager , you 're so suitable for the job , ’ continued Joseph . |
| 17 | She 's now so good at them , that the Magic Circle 's just made her its youngest member . |
| 18 | He had never pretended to love her and it was her misfortune that the time that had meant nothing to him had made her his forever . |
| 19 | Her mother and father , or the young man who had made her his easy prey ? |
| 20 | I 've made her my deputy . |
| 21 | More perceptively , Lloyd Shearer in Parade wrote , ‘ With his short stature , hook nose , beady eyes , unkempt hair , he looks like a loser , and it is precisely because of that loser image that the younger generation have made him their winner . ’ |
| 22 | They had made him their leader and Nuadu , cynical and bitter against his own kind , had thought that for all he was a base-born prince , still he had a Court of a kind and subjects of a sort . |
| 23 | He might have done so , she reflected bitterly , had not madness made him its own monument first . |
| 24 | My father has made him my responsibility . |
| 25 | She had made him his favourite bottom pie and onions for supper that evening when he came in from the fishing , and he had gone back down to Mother Russell 's after , for a few ales . |
| 26 | They have always been notable sources of reference for serious scholars , of course , and there have always been just a few teachers and parents who have made it their business , over the years , to arrange educational visits both for themselves and for schoolchildren . |
| 27 | Labour voters who observed the anti-Labour virulence of the SNP campaigns are puzzled as to why a few Labour MPs and trade union luminaries have made it their mission to resuscitate a force that the electorate had efficiently reduced to three seats . |
| 28 | They have made it their business to gain real knowledge in the political sphere , because they belong to a great consumers ' organisation with the definite purpose in view of production for use rather than for profit , and of the development of a higher and nobler system of society . |
| 29 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |
| 30 | However , if hon. Members had been given more time to study these complicated regulations , more of them might have realised how adversely they affect some of their constituents and would have made it their business to be here . |