Example sentences of "make [pron] into [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
2 | In this way by not acceding to anger and resentment , he has made himself into a better son . |
3 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
4 | It has made him into a bitter man and I quite understand that bitterness . |
5 | The bothy was in Pat 's family , and they 've made it into a lovely home . |
6 | WHAT DO you do when your image as a bunch of glamorous rock'n'roll animals starts wearing thin , and you still have n't made it into the big time ? |
7 | It does n't take the detective skills of Lord Peter Wimsey to track down the novels of Dorothy L Sayers … she 's made it into the top shelf of crime writers . |
8 | A mother who has put her daughter on the stage and made her into a teenage star is obviously aware that she is moulding something special . |
9 | She could be matched to any of four performers in the floorshow ; Josie was n't sure why , but it was as if her teenager 's skin and certain odd , somehow held-back elements of her personality made her into a blank sheet onto which anything could be drawn . |
10 | They , they did have the option that they could have had complete absolute egalitarianism and made everybody into a poor peasant , but the commun but the commun the Communist Party were progressive and they s saw that how that you needed to have industrialization in order to increase the welfare of peasants which was their ultimate aim , and I mean it appears that how that they did n't actually care er what kinds of means they 'd have to achieve that , as in capitalism was justified in this longer term perspective . |
11 | but he recommended to her to actually make it into a fourth bedroom because it would increase the value of the house |
12 | That is a pig of a road , I must admit , I do n't know why they do n't make it into a dual carriage way . |
13 | It would only take a couple of houses to be knocked down and they could make it into a dual carriage way . |
14 | So , what , what word do you make it into an open question ? |
15 | Then you can make it into an easier idea of what I mean . |
16 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
17 | THE STORY of the legendary Lawrence of Arabia has fascinated the media for many years , not least director David Lean , who made it into a famous feature film with Peter O'Toole in 1962 . |
18 | The plea was heartfelt , but the tone of her voice made it into a peremptory command , and his eyes narrowed . |
19 | Originally it had no towers and was aisleless , but extensive additions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made it into a three-aisled church with a tall tower . |
20 | But he left to take on the run-down Staffordshire country house called Alton Towers and made it into a top leisure and theme park . |
21 | And then in the , where the bath used to be , in this little bathroom I had the cooker and the washer that 's it , I made it into a little kitchen so |
22 | She folded the silver square of wrapping paper in half and made it into a little boat . |
23 | In ways more amenable to women 's visual pleasure , off-beat films which then made it into the mainstream distribution circuit such as Lianna ( Nelson/Renzi ) , Desert Hearts , I 've Heard the Mermaids Singing ( Rozema ) and Percy Adlon 's work with Marianne Sagebrecht in Baghdad Café and Sugar Baby have achieved a degree of success in changing the dynamics of female objectification and sexual fantasy in an entertainment setting . |
24 | The champions have to overturn a daunting 3-0 deficit at Elland Road tomorrow night if they are to get past Stuttgart and make it into the European Cup second round . |
25 | But you 've probably noticed the ad count has risen considerably in recent months , due to the fact that we 've upped the pages to five and edited out some of the waffle ( which the waffler pays for , I might add ) in order to ensure that most ads make it into the desired issue . |
26 | I know , I know , I know I should n't be angry cos it 's not , you know , obviously you 're not gon na think every time someone says they fancy you you 're not gon na think oh God he 's lying , there 's no reason , you should n't ever think that I mean what they 're doing now is just making you into a paranoid wreck . |
27 | Some of it you know just to ignore , but if it is from someone who knows what he is on about , then it can be helpful in making you into a better player . |
28 | As I had come to know a number of rectors and vicars in the course of my journeys , for reasons which I have mentioned , Eliot questioned me about what he felt might he a mounting danger , namely that the Church might seek to increase by chauvinism what it appeared to be losing in spirituality : and indeed the vicar of my own village had been upbraided by a group of parishioners for not preaching sermons directly furthering the war effort , which Eliot said was tantamount to making him into an unpaid official of the MOI . |
29 | A terrific heat eased from his room , welding with the air outside making it into a different zone from the rest of the house , like the Gulf Stream off Scotland . |
30 | As he 's said of his ill-fated time at Virgin Records , ‘ I had to keep telling people they 're not going to make me into the next Sting . ’ |