Example sentences of "make [pron] [art] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their tactical naivety and non-dynamic ‘ donkeys-and-backs ’ approach made them no match for the super-fit ‘ new age ’ stars from Down Under . |
| 2 | There was the lure of the big stores , though clothing coupons and shortage of money made them a feast for the eye only . |
| 3 | Worse still , the new Leeds are as sly and provocative as Don Revie 's sides , with none of the skills which made them the Liverpool of the Seventies . |
| 4 | I met him two or three years later when I asked if he would make me a dress for the March of Dimes , using some peony pink silk that Winston brought back from China . |
| 5 | It has been my pleasure and privilege to have known since 1967 when he made me a member of the Labour Party . |
| 6 | Rounds of 67 , 69 , 66 and 65 made me the winner of the Lancome Trophy and a very happy man . |
| 7 | Lawrence has insisted he wants to stay and honour his contract at Middlesbrough and make them a force in the Premier division . |
| 8 | Sitting in a traffic jam with such a car alongside is a contemporary purgatory that produces reactions in me that bode no good for the future of the human race and make me a menace on the roads for minutes afterwards . |
| 9 | By adopting the Waste Land theme , Eliot made himself the performer of the latest enactment of a repeated rite , just as in his poem clerk and typist ( like the earlier Burbank and Volupine ) enact their own sexual ritual . |
| 10 | During the passage of this Bill , my hon. Friend has made himself an expert on the subject . |
| 11 | In the bedroom Caterina and Rosalba shared in the apartment in Rupe , smaller than their room in the farmhouse , Rosa questioned her sister , whispering , the night after Tommaso had made her a gift of the bird in the street in sight of everyone coming out of Mass . |
| 12 | Mrs Grandison , the mother of Sophia and Penelope , had the remains of her daughters ' Pre-Raphaelite beauty , now much faded and overlaid with some other quality , which had made her the President of the Women 's Institute in the village where she lived but which did not seem to be quite Pre-Raphaelite . |
| 13 | It is the influence of Weber 's style which has made him a phenomenon of the 1980s . |
| 14 | Furious , his ‘ father ’ , Robert , had made him a prisoner in the house , forbidding him the run of the Domain until he changed his ways , but Augustus had remained defiant . |
| 15 | The act has made him the star of the show . |
| 16 | Rich countries can afford to spend money on the environment , but few have made it a priority in the past . |
| 17 | By 1990 the museum 's concentration on twentieth-century art had made it an anomaly in the collection and the decision was made to deaccession the picture , valued at $10 million . |
| 18 | Tories , long , short and tall , queued with the stoicism that had once made us the envy of the world . |
| 19 | After drawing a blank on Rhodes , I had to write something that justified my travelling expenses , so I made you the villain of the piece . |
| 20 | We think Smooth Tubes look good when they glow but if that is a problem , Mr Fothergill , call us or your dealer and we 'll make you a special without the LEDs . |
| 21 | ‘ Right , let's make you a bed on the couch , is it ? |
| 22 | That episcopal ordination made one a member of the episcopal college was accepted in principle by the second session . |
| 23 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 24 | Her own family has suffered the anguish of repossession , and her personal story of how her local Liberal Democrat-controlled council helped them made her the winner in the school 's mock election . |
| 25 | A contract is a bargain and the bargain was that the Company made her the promise in the advertisement and she in return bought one of their smoke balls from a retailer . |
| 26 | The Company made her an offer in the advertisement which she accepted by buying a smoke ball from a retailer . |
| 27 | It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him . |
| 28 | Willsford , Riverside Boy and Richard Dunwoody 's expected mount Wo n't be Gone Long are others to look at but I feel that the class of Chatam could make him the bet of the race . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's a good wrestler , a flier , a skier — all the things that might make him an attraction to the Duchess of York . |
| 30 | Cohabiting with Sien made him a denizen of the slum district she knew intimately . |