Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought the dead whiteness of the dress made me more of a corpse than a bride but had n't enough energy to infuriate my mother by telling her so . |
| 2 | Third , prayer in the light of the Bible and guided by the Holy Spirit will change me : change my attitudes , make me more like the person God wants me to be . |
| 3 | In that case the defendant had made her home with a tenant of a private sector house for three years and continued to make her home with the tenant when he was granted a secure tenancy of a council house . |
| 4 | Boswell had by now made it plain over a number of years that he wished to write Johnson 's Life . |
| 5 | Moreover , both directly and through the medium of the European Community , my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has made it plain to the Government of Israel that we deplore the closure decision and that we believe that the universities , colleges and schools should remain open . |
| 6 | It took her a week to make , that dress , she 'd made it specially for the dance at the police cadets ’ college , and then she 'd been so shy she 'd spent most of the evening in the Ladies . |
| 7 | This made her late with the lunch , and at the table she found the young men impossible to talk to because she was trying to retain the lines of what she had prepared to say . |
| 8 | ( 66 ) … she must make it plain before the evening begins that some or all of the financial responsibility for it will be hers . |
| 9 | I mean , it would make it easier from the point of rehearsing . |
| 10 | The point I made to half , and now I 'll make it again to the whole , yesterday , was that it 's very important to , to define your roles in a particular thing . |
| 11 | ( Do I make it sound like a paradise , a utopia , a socialist state such as would delight Shelley 's and your father 's hearts ? |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't make it sound like a disease , love , ’ he interrupted gently . |
| 13 | Entrenched competitors can make it hard for a supplier to win new orders . |
| 14 | Benny Polymer , the Titford manager , made it plain at the start of the season that promotion was his goal . |
| 15 | What they had not bargained for was the prejudice of the trial judge , Lord Grant , who , as Nicky relates in his recently published memoirs , made it plain from the outset that he believed , as the police believed , that Meehan was guilty . |
| 16 | You made it plain from the moment you met me that you were available , but you miscalculated if you imagined I 'd fallen for your little scheme . ’ |
| 17 | Although that right had been curtailed by s 2(2) of the 1987 Act , which requires a person under investigation to answer questions from the SFO ( or otherwise furnish information ) with respect to any matter relevant to the investigation , the effect of the immunity had been preserved by s 2(8) , which provided that a statement made in accordance with s 2 could only be used in evidence against the person who made it either on a prosecution for knowingly making a false statement ( or recklessly making such ) , or on a prosecution for some other offence where , in giving evidence , that person made a statement which was inconsistent with it . |
| 18 | ‘ I was very pleased when it rained , as Silver Fling is best really at five and a half furlongs , and the easier ground made it more of a test ’ . |
| 19 | Below Inside , comfortable armchairs , reading tables and daily newspapers made it more like a club than a travel agent 's office . |
| 20 | They have two openings on each side of the skull which made it more like a scaffolding , and accounts for the unusually high number of archosaur skulls broken into small fragments . |
| 21 | Just In Time is a great demo , not so much because of original ideas ( there are hardly any ) , but the excellent execution of the routines make it well worth a gander . |
| 22 | We make it absolutely on the phone . |
| 23 | Thereafter an employee is rotated through several sections or jobs making them more of a generalist rather than a specialist in one skill . |
| 24 | Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself , making it rather like the surface of the earth . |
| 25 | A system of information storage and retrieval , making it easier to the user to maintain records . |
| 26 | Although there is no known cure for osteoarthritis , there are some ways of making it less of a problem to ordinary living . |
| 27 | One of the major themes of the 1980s was the decentralisation of services to make them closer to the public . |
| 28 | ‘ The speed humps will be built in a special way which makes them less of an inconvenience to buses , ’ said Mrs Standing . |
| 29 | ‘ For some reason I hate to lose , ’ said Chang , ‘ and that makes me more of a fighter . |
| 30 | In that case the defendant had made her home with a tenant of a private sector house for three years and continued to make her home with the tenant when he was granted a secure tenancy of a council house . |