Example sentences of "[pron] make [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone made Elizabeth welcome . |
| 2 | They reduced nausea and prevented vomiting , and many of them made people sleepy . |
| 3 | But how else , how else can I make life bearable ? |
| 4 | Today has the quaintly ambiguous headline : ‘ I MADE BRITAIN GREAT NOT MAJOR CLAIMS THATCHER ’ . |
| 5 | I made Joanna respectable by putting up my anchor lantern , made myself a mug of cocoa , and turned in . |
| 6 | I can wait for her to understand how I make Gillian happy . |
| 7 | I make people angry — that 's my game . ’ |
| 8 | But the sceptic ca n't see the way that Paul 's example is an answer , because the things which made Paul joyful are alien to the non-Christian way of life . |
| 9 | In New York in 1874 Cook launched a system which made money available abroad against money deposited at home . |
| 10 | He felt bound to reproach his friend for his excesses , which made Modi furious . |
| 11 | The element R which made recombination possible has an evens chance of emerging attached to a perfect message . |
| 12 | Further down the street was Young 's Timber Yard having a narrow entrance under the bedrooms of adjoining houses which made deliveries difficult . |
| 13 | The woman inspired her with an admiration which made closeness difficult . |
| 14 | There was also a nexus of interests between state managers and private capital in the firms controlled by INI which made supervision difficult ( Medhurst 1973 : 164 ) . |
| 15 | The classic singlehanded small business , which made Thatcher great . |
| 16 | Instead , he negotiated an unofficial treaty which made Saragossa subject to Castile and Leon , and established the Caliphate as a virtual protectorate of Alfonso 's kingdom . |
| 17 | That was another thing which made Mahmoud uneasy , for modern and emancipated though he was , he could not completely shake off the attitudes and sexual constraints of the old , Islamic society . |
| 18 | He went through a schools system which made art compulsory , failing the subject at O-level but passed with flying colours to gain an Alevel in sculpture . |
| 19 | Student prejudice kept the KGB off the list , which made Trent mad or made him laugh , depending on the day of the week . |
| 20 | The Stolypin reforms , Soviet historians would maintain , had not solved the basic problem which made revolution inevitable . |
| 21 | The Städel 's Graphische Sammlung has contributed a special display grouped around the ‘ The Glove ’ , the series of ten etchings ( 1881 ) which made Klinger famous and which influenced Max Ernst and other surrealists . |
| 22 | Even the Physical Training and Recreation Act of 1937 , which made funds available to promote fitness amidst rumours of war and the realities of domestic rearmament , was exceedingly modest in scope with a meagre two-million-pound budget in comparison with the vast sums spent on ‘ Kraft durch Freude ’ by the Third Reich and Mussolini 's ‘ Dopolavoro ’ programme . |
| 23 | A flight of external stairs allowed him easy access to the bookroom , and there he must often have been found when the ‘ noise of Women & children ’ , which made study impossible , had driven him once again from Lime Street : it is probable that most of the poems associated with the cottage were at least partly written in the bookroom . |
| 24 | They were not drugs which made patients happy . |
| 25 | Britain , too , favoured the association of the proposed Arab state with Transjordan , but backtracked in the face of widespread hostility which made Abdallah unpopular throughout the Arab world . |
| 26 | There was something about the way she said it which made people nervous . |
| 27 | All the pleasing illusions , which made power gentle and obedience liberal , which harmonised the different shades of life … are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason . |
| 28 | Federal judge Kimba Wood explained the reduction — which made Milken eligible for release in March 1993 — on the grounds of his full co-operation with the authorities , his good behaviour in prison and the illness of one of his children . |
| 29 | Yet , if Durham had special strategic and political features which made Fordham unacceptable there in the eyes of the Crown 's opponents and of key northern lords , Ely was notoriously the rich neo-sinecure of English bishoprics , and for Fordham a homecoming . |
| 30 | Constructivists do not admit such scepticism : the existence of an external world is one of the factors which make cognisance possible . |