Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] made [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 2 | ‘ I know that a lot of people think I am made of steel . |
| 3 | Sometimes I think I 'm invisible and I can pour myself into places like I 'm made of water . |
| 4 | But now he 's showing definite signs of not thinking you are made of wood I 'm quite happy to stop taking violent umbrage and to start liking him . |
| 5 | ‘ How about : You are made of stardust ! ’ |
| 6 | You 're made of stardust . |
| 7 | Even as she struggled he was lifting her clear off her feet as easily as though she were made of thistledown . |
| 8 | At first she had let him wash their three-month-old child but Fred 's face had become red and perspiration stood out on his forehead as he held the mite as though she were made of china . |
| 9 | The buzzard flew to the king 's palace , waited , perching in an oak tree , until the princess came out for her evening stroll , and then picked her up and carried her back to the forest , holding her as carefully as if she were made of rose petals . |
| 10 | And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest . |
| 11 | As his fingers explored further , slipping inside her , moving rhythmically against her , a drowsy and confused acceptance possessed her mind while , at the same time , her body responded to his touch as though she were made of fire ; and the centre of that hotness burned deep and slow and fierce inside her , tantalizingly with the magic of Johnny 's moving fingers . |
| 12 | As though she were made of fire . |
| 13 | He thought she might not have a heart , or tried to explain away her indifference by imagining she were made of obsidian through and through . |
| 14 | She 's made from wax . |
| 15 | She wore a collar like Aunt Margaret 's but it could not chafe her neck because she was made of wood . |
| 16 | No one knew how old she was , but she looked as though she was made of leather and would last forever . |
| 17 | In order to still his sexual passions Sir Frances took an unusual wife , what was unusual about her A , she was made of snow , B , she had no vagina , C , she lived a thousand miles away ? |
| 18 | she was made of snow why do you think |
| 19 | We must move from the idea that the animals were given to us and made for us , to the idea that we were made for creation , to serve it and ensure its continuance . |
| 20 | ‘ I dreamt we were made of gold , ’ Creed said , ‘ and there were people trying to melt us down . ’ |
| 21 | Two wheels , round and round , he could n't take his eyes away , and this time it 'd be like worship , I dreamed that we were made of gold , he 'd seen too much , his eyes were gold , they 'd have to melt them down . |
| 22 | If they are made of mahogany , the answer is ‘ yes ’ . |
| 23 | People who only believe in things when they know what they are made of will feel uneasy . |
| 24 | They are complicated and obviously designed for a purpose , yet they are not alive , and they are made of metal and plastic rather than of flesh and blood . |
| 25 | Scientific examination has shown that they are made of bronze similar to that used in genuine Italic figures from Italy and the patination appears to have developed over a long period , suggesting that they are not modern copies . |
| 26 | They are made of copper alloy and are about 3 to 4 cms in length . |
| 27 | They are Richard Walker 's Mk IV design of 1½lb test-curve , but they were very expensive rods at the time I bought them for they are made of cane called Palakona . |
| 28 | Because they are made of protein they are rapidly inactivated at temperatures over 50°C and certainly boiling would render any you put in a carp bait totally inactive . |
| 29 | They are made of lead and painted gold to resemble the real thing but the crude copies rapidly deteriorate . |
| 30 | Well , he might say that one mental sentence is , as it were , ‘ upfront ’ ( for example ‘ The spectacles are broken ! ’ ) , but that this sentence has a network of connections to other sentences in the mental architecture ( ‘ They are made of glass , ’ ‘ They were purchased ’ , ‘ They are not unique ’ ) . |