Example sentences of "[pers pn] make [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
2 | ‘ I made them with a ruler , ’ he says . |
3 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |
4 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
5 | I made it from a pattern |
6 | I make , cos I make it in a microwave |
7 | First you mix the dough , then you pat it into shape , like a figure in a Nativity crib , with all his fingers , and little fingernails , you make them with a toothpick , and his face , not forgetting ears and nostrils and eyebrows , and you put in his navel , making a little indentation , and you roll some dough for his thingamajig . ’ |
8 | Mm I think if you try and do it here , so you make it into a shoe shape , you curl it all up into a shoe shape , where do you think it 's going to go ? |
9 | And I think , that the more you forbade , forbid the thing , the more attractive you make it to a child . |
10 | When you make anything from a box to a dress , it is very helpful if you can measure accurately ! |
11 | If you made everything into a joke , people thought that nothing mattered to you , that you took nothing seriously . |
12 | With grit and determination she makes it in a man 's world by hiring and firing at will . |
13 | We made it in a smother of white water close inshore towards Buckie . |
14 | We made it in a factory ( Hollowcore ) using moulded GRG . |
15 | Can they make themselves into a statue of , for example , Anancy playing a trick ? |
16 | I think sometimes I ca n't help but think it 's how they made him in a way , you know , like I , you , sometimes your , I think you should sit down and play with something , but he wo n't sit quiet and amuse himself |
17 | Built into a doorway , they make it into a gateway — an impressive entrance , leading into the space beyond . |
18 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
19 | I did n't re I thought he actually made a person , I did n't realize he made himself into a person . |
20 | With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose , Kent , where regulars called 999 . |
21 | How does it make someone like a woman who has just had an abortion feel having to go to a lavatory to express her grief in tears ? |
22 | Did he make it to a tree too ? ’ |