Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] make [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now that John Gribbin has made it known ( Letters , 26 January ) that the term ( and presumably the concept ) ‘ centrifugal force ’ is favoured by the relativists , I am beginning to have second thoughts . |
| 2 | Once assertiveness starts coming more naturally to Germany , as naturally it will , might the Kohl sort of Germany want to make its political weight in the Community match its economic power , and be more protective of German minorities across its borders ? |
| 3 | Mr Dalyell has made his views known to West Lothian District Council and has pledged to raise the issue in parliament if necessary . |
| 4 | I only ask because Mr Hamlyn has made them look remarkably similar — the main difference is that Ms Rendell has a splendid pair of naked buttocks perched on her head where her hair should be . |
| 5 | George can only advise , issue ultimatums and final warnings , while England No 2 Lawrie McMenemy has made it clear how the international camp looks upon bad behaviour . |
| 6 | The RAF has made its first parachute drops in Britain since fire destroyed sixty percent of the parachutes used by the Armed Forces . |
| 7 | Linda Kelly has made herself so familiar with these redoubtable historical figures that she writes about them as though they were her next-door neighbours . |
| 8 | Bready failed to make it an all North West final when they lost by four wickets to North Down , beaten Touche Ross Cup finalists earlier this month . |
| 9 | By setting this film against a backdrop of the London Underground , Christine Halsall and Steven Sprung made us feel inextricably woven into this madness . |
| 10 | But Fairfax has made his own arrangements . |
| 11 | But now Mr Gorbachev has made himself the unpalatable alternative . |
| 12 | But Kathleen has made it today , in honour of your arrival . |
| 13 | Now Jean has made her day … |
| 14 | ‘ Men have authority over women because Allah has made one superior to the other , and because they spend their wealth to maintain them ’ says the Koran . |
| 15 | In Egypt , the growing reliance on huge imports of cheap grain from the United States has made it uneconomical for local farmers to grow grain , and large tracts of land that once grew food for local consumption now grow strawberries , luxury vegetables and other cash crops for export ( see Steif , 1989 ) . |
| 16 | United had four cleared off the line … hit the bar twice but it took a hand ball and a penalty from Jim Magilton to get them back into the game … with ten minutes to go the Manor was celebrating an equaliser from Joey Beauchamp and surely they could see the second division side off … but after extra time it was still two all and now down to penalties … the crunch came when Chrissy Allen 's kick was saved … and Swansea 's Keith Walker scored to make it five four to the second division side on penalties … |
| 17 | Mandeville and Santerre had arrived at Templecombe wanting to make everyone dance to their tune . |
| 18 | CHRIS BRICKELL toiled to make his book about 8,000 plants a blooming good read . |
| 19 | The Portrait of Kahnweiler , painted in Paris soon after Picasso 's return from Cadaquès in the early autumn of 1910 , may have helped Picasso towards a solution of his problem , since in dealing with a particular individual he was forced to find a less difficult and hermetic means of expression ; in any case the portrait serves to illustrate what steps Picasso took to make his work once again more legible . |
| 20 | Trevor Skeet struggled to make himself heard against the din . |
| 21 | That , I mean , the , the appointments what Jane and Linda do make me , I 'll be honest , they 're quality appointments , not all of them but I would sixty , seventy percent of them are good quality appointments . |
| 22 | C'm on BOSS : Zoff and Oddi look bemused as an animated Gazza tries to make his point |
| 23 | She was so neat and quick in all her movements , and Matey had made her careful . |
| 24 | He had grown little in those two summers and she was now as tall as he but although her scrambling life on the Down had made her tough and wiry she was not as strong or as agile . |
| 25 | Lucy had made it clear , if only by silence , that talk of love panicked her . |
| 26 | Travis had made her initiation into the mystery of sensuality at once incredibly tender and shockingly passionate . |
| 27 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 28 | Bobby had to make his own presence felt . |
| 29 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 30 | And , after all , The Last Days of Dolwyn had made him something of a film star . |