Example sentences of "of [pers pn] make a [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 | Why not use some of them to make a lovely flower arrangement . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |