Example sentences of "make [pron] [noun] of the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Had Andrewes remained in Cambridge , his reputation would probably have been unblemished but he would have lacked the stimulus to write the magnificent sermons which he preached at Court ; and he would not willingly have engaged in the controversial writing in which for the first time he set out the Anglican Church 's position in terms which European scholars could respect ; above all his Preces , even had they been written , would not have contained the breadth of experience , and the depth of feeling , based on that experience , which made them treasures of the Church .
2 Frankie 's very success made them part of the pop family .
3 For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style .
4 And if I feel like it , I wo n't just screw up your life with that stupid , lame bitch , I 'll make her part of the deal .
5 Or , rather , a lion — there was something about those gold-brown eyes and swept-back mane of hair that made her think of the King of Beasts , dressed up in the trappings of civilisation .
6 The room made her think of the children 's game where the floor is the sea and full of sharks , and you are only safe on the furniture .
7 All this is God 's doing , for he has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ ; and he has made us agents of the reconciliation . ’ 2 Corinthians 5:17
8 ‘ Would n't make you flavour of the month , would it ? ’
9 ‘ If he 's a good boy I might make him Chairman of the board of Ferguson Foods !
10 In July 1263 Fitzjohn 's local influence was acknowledged and increased when Montfort 's government made him keeper of the peace in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire ; in December , with the other Montfortians , he accepted Louis IX 's offer to arbitrate on their quarrel with the king .
11 This , allied to the respect and admiration he had already gained here as captain of our 1977 promotion team and as a member of the full Welsh International side , established an empathy between Ian and the fans which made him part of the folk-lore of Crystal Palace Football Club .
12 The position , vacant for 25 years , made him captain of the guard of the Sultan of Sokoto , the spiritual leader of Nigeria 's 60,000,000 Moslems .
13 Machin says : ‘ John 's a real leader on the pitch which is why we made him captain of the youth team .
14 In 1969 the Italian government made him commander of the Order of Merit for services to Italian culture .
15 Evidently Anselm judged that he could not make his excommunication of the king effective if he stayed in Lyons , and he must move nearer to the scene of action .
16 The medium is particularly well suited to close-up shots and the viewer can make his assessment of the situation from behind the player 's arm .
17 Sixty years after Schoenberg was making those remarks and nearly twenty years since Karajan made his recording of the Op. 31 Variations , it is still possible to meet the argument that the gramophone can never be a substitute for the sound of ‘ the real thing ’ in the concert-hall .
18 These performances directed by Kuijken have many of the qualities that made his set of the Haydn ‘ Paris ’ Symphonies , also on Virgin , so winning .
19 And of course made it part of the job that you had to attend night school classes for bread baking and confectionery .
20 Yet it was through the derided Teenybop that the next pop generation came , as young women quickly moved from varieties of Osmond to something a bit meatier — men who instead of masking the femininity of the adored object , flaunted it and made it part of the package .
21 and erm er , we , and that there are various other erm we ways in which the parties should be protected , erm , which I have n't had a chance to look at today clearly the costs of investigating , the proper costs of investigating any structured settlement would have to be dealt with on a later occasion , that it is somehow awarded , instead of protected that the plaintiff gives the defendant notice , seven day 's notice before instructing any account on to advise on the structured settlement , so if the defendant thinks the plaintiff is being wholly unreasonable they can come back to court , quite at liberty to apply and get , make his point of the directions on the therefore within these context these are the sort of orders which , on the behalf of the plaintiff I can see and I would respectively suggest that we go away , draw them up and hand them in toy our Lordship and come back later in the day if we have difficult
22 The statute did not , he submitted , make it part of the functions of the Bank to act as an information-collecting agency for a foreign regulatory authority .
23 It would be more effective to involve people by education , by making them part of the system so that they gain from helping , to give them a vested interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem and the wildlife around them — very much cheaper than a law force , WWF and CITES secretariats .
24 Twenty years ago she was Lucy and Frieda 's age , putting on school uniform for the first day of the winter term , long serge skirt suddenly covering the scratched knees used to shorts , thick woolly stockings sliding strangely up the white smooth skin , nylon suspender belt holding in her stomach making her think of the opening under the dark bush below .
25 My brother-in-law is making her manageress of the London salon he 's opening in the autumn .
26 Meanwhile , no doubt , Messrs Kennedy , Clinton and Hart will be making their opinions of the case known to Congress and the press .
27 In particular they believed that a State which could dominate the sea and Europe 's trade with the outside world would have gone far towards making herself mistress of the continent .
28 When Mr. Gussman arrived in Alton some two and a half years ago , there was a question mark over whether or nor it was worth making him chaplain of the hospital .
29 In some circles there is excited talk of making him president of the SNP , talk which the present incumbent rather resents .
30 I do n't know if I know I understand obviously monies not around at the moment but if they made some way of creating some kind of jazz pub closing it down making it part of the theatre again it 's it 's just a like a pub and I I do n't ever feel comfortable going in there and buying drinks on rehearse . .
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