Example sentences of "[verb] made [pers pn] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the last minute , enough congressmen rally round to get the package through the House of Representatives : not because they believe in it , but because Mr Clinton has made them an offer they can not refuse , or worse , because they pity him . |
| 2 | Its situation has made it an important centre for both trade and tourism . |
| 3 | The Gothic style of the mansion has made it an ideal film set in the past . |
| 4 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
| 5 | He paused , then added dispassionately , ‘ Had she been born a man , those traits would have made her an excellent ruler . ’ |
| 6 | A well-rounded elder statesman : Denis Healey has a personal Hinterland , filled with poetry , history , classics and philosophy , which he fears may have made him an over-tolerant politician . |
| 7 | His alcoholism would have made him an unsuitable colleague for revolutionaries obsessed with the need for secrecy and the dangers of indiscretion . |
| 8 | ‘ I say , Commander , you 've made me an awfully happy WAAF . |
| 9 | His solitary life had made him an accurate observer of wild creatures , and to him humans were but other creatures , rare , but the most dangerous and observable of all . |
| 10 | His first plan was to have the film , provisionally entitled Who Killed Bambi ? directed by Russ Meyer , a corpulent , moustachioed American whose films featuring pendulous-breasted women had made him an improbable recipient of cult acclaim . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had made it an attractive place , beautifully decorated with light paint , and furnished with old pieces picked up at auctions with taste and considerable knowledge of antiques . |
| 13 | We have made him an offer but he 's not very keen . |
| 14 | ‘ Sir , I have made you an honourable proposal for the hand of your daughter , whom I am in a position to support now and , later , in increased comfort — ’ |