Example sentences of "[adv] make [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
| 2 | One of the important things is to enjoy the preparation and not make it into a chore . |
| 3 | But you can not make yourself into a cricketer . |
| 4 | But he was n't very good , and even to please her ( which was his only motive for practising ) he could not make himself into a musician . |
| 5 | They might not make 'em on a Sunday |
| 6 | They 've just made it into a town where people are travelling out to go to work |
| 7 | In Berry ( No. 2 ) , the applicant , B , had been convicted of making an explosive in circumstances giving rise to the reasonable suspicion that he was not making it for a lawful object . |
| 8 | I know , I know , I know I should n't be angry cos it 's not , you know , obviously you 're not gon na think every time someone says they fancy you you 're not gon na think oh God he 's lying , there 's no reason , you should n't ever think that I mean what they 're doing now is just making you into a paranoid wreck . |
| 9 | How Seymour ever made it as a film star is beyond me . |
| 10 | Half of these make it to the training yards , and not all of them , by a long way , will ever make it to a race track . |
| 11 | And I am if at five minutes to five , or five minutes to leaving off time whatever it was and you would n't say well we 'll get ready to go home you had to pick a half a link up make it into a staple and throw it in the box . |
| 12 | Modern psychotics also often make something of a personal divinity of the sun , as the following quotation suggests : |
| 13 | So what have you got to do to it now to make it into a ninety ? |
| 14 | That is a pig of a road , I must admit , I do n't know why they do n't make it into a dual carriage way . |
| 15 | If you have greenhouse or coldframe , a wise insurance policy it to root cuttings of susceptible species in July and over-winter these under glass just in case the parents do n't make it through a bad winter . |
| 16 | On Christmas Eve , listening to herself making yet more excuses on the telephone , explaining why they could n't make it to a family party , hearing her sister 's disappointment . |
| 17 | Every professional knows that if he holes a few of those vital putts of eight feet or more , it can transform his whole round and maybe make him into a winner . |
| 18 | How do I go about making it into a cheese ? |
| 19 | Many paddling pools can also be used as sandpits , but once you 've filled your pool with sand , you 're unlikely to want to take all out again to make it into a paddling pool for the afternoon . |
| 20 | Sounds as if IBM Corp has thrown in the towel and acknowledged that it will never make it with a word processor of its own : it has become a member of Wordperfect Corp 's Customer Advantage Programme , a fancy name for a company-wide licence for IBM to distribute and use Wordperfect products throughout the company with ‘ significant savings ’ and simplified licence administration . |
| 21 | They said a quality newspaper could never make it as a tabloid , and the struggle is now on |
| 22 | Spanning 50 years of his life , Sinatra begins with the frustrations of his early years in the 1920s and 30s , when he was told he had no talent and would never make it as a professional singer . |
| 23 | but he recommended to her to actually make it into a fourth bedroom because it would increase the value of the house |