Example sentences of "of [pers pn] make [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two of them make a right pair , sending messages , leaving notes you look at this , now ! ’ |
| 2 | After a few half-hearted sips , one of them made a great show of looking at his watch , and put his glass down . |
| 3 | Foreigners always find that a difficult process — in fact only one of them made a real success of it — and Disraeli possessed what Ezra had been denied — the elasticity and toughness of a good Jew . |
| 4 | The Minster had the gruffest basso but the others were undeterred and the whole tribe of them made a tremendous clangour . |
| 5 | None of them made a special selection of materials suitable for the peasantry , so the few books that were dispatched were often too dry or too expensive . |
| 6 | But the flow of immigrants went on , with very little space to receive the new settlers , so in 1628 some of them made the easy move from St. Kitts to Nevis , and a couple of years later made a slightly longer move and occupied the islands of Antigua and Monserrat , laying the foundations of English settlement in the Leeward Islands . |
| 7 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 8 | She never knew which one of them made the first move , but suddenly , unaccountably , she was in his arms , his hands pressing against her back to draw her closer still . |
| 9 | Two senior research officers at the Home Office were also invited , and one of them made an excellent contribution . |
| 10 | ‘ You can not go out at night without one of them making an obscene remark or getting his tackle out . |
| 11 | Why not use some of them to make a lovely flower arrangement . |
| 12 | There were not enough of them to make the large Greystones sitting room look as though much was going on ; people stood in small clumps , eyeing one another ; awkward silences broke out . |
| 13 | There was no doubting that this young relative of his made a fine figure of a man , he thought , as he announced that he was going upstairs to change for dinner . |
| 14 | Some of us made a final effort and formed Feminist Audio Books — a library exclusively providing audiotapes of feminist writing for blind and partially-sighted women and women with reading difficulties . |