Example sentences of "[pers pn] was make [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was made uneasy by those parading men in smart suits and dark glasses , who appeared to be a kind of confraternity of Falangists , ardent nationalists and supporters of Franco , whose picture was everywhere . |
| 2 | I was made sorry for her at first , as I would be for any young girl , crippled — it is hinted by the cruelty of her husband — and a mother , but even at the beginning there is a niggling doubt that she is rather superficial and shallow . |
| 3 | I was made redundant in the summer.Ity 's a chicken and egg thing . |
| 4 | For the first time in my life I was made conscious of not being able to control my own situation . |
| 5 | ‘ I was to make good in one calendar year , or he 'd cut off my allowance . |
| 6 | I was making 24 of these and needed a repetitive method . |
| 7 | Now another journey began , one of which she had no memory , no knowledge of the decision to start , but one which she was made powerless by love to turn from . |
| 8 | The tug refloated the vessel , towed her to a sheltered anchorage where she was made fit for the tow to Hong Kong , and thereafter towed her for four days to docks in Hong Kong . |
| 9 | As the kiss lingered , she was made aware of his hardness as he pressed himself against her . |
| 10 | Huitzilopochtli was born of the goddess COATLIQUE , and she was made aware of his conception when a wreath of blue humming-bird feathers fell from the sky . |
| 11 | She moved into another of Dawn 's houses after she was made homeless with four children . |
| 12 | " I did n't realize she was making free with me , " Patrick grinned at the thought . |
| 13 | Even though she was making light of it , Charlie could n't mistake the fire that animated her when she reached his entries for the final night of Christine Ashdown 's brief career . |
| 14 | It was made famous by being used at a remembrance service for Falklands dead . |
| 15 | It was made famous by the then Labour education chairman who said , and I quote , I am a spendthrift , I love to spend the rate payers ' money . |
| 16 | At the same time it was made illegal for anyone who was not fully medically qualified and registered to treat these diseases . |
| 17 | Such legislation was a response to liberal humanitarianism but it was made possible by the inevitable tendency of industrial processes to require more skilled labour . |
| 18 | It was made possible by more widespread literacy , which increased the flow of information . |
| 19 | It was made explicit by the inclusion in those Conventions of the famous provision in the Preamble which has been known as the Martens clause . |
| 20 | The existence of the tape has been known for months and a copy of it was made available to a newspaper many weeks ago . |
| 21 | It was indeed very difficult to find somebody non-Jewish reading the Bible in Greek even when it was made available in that language . |
| 22 | It was made available by Harold Wilson , who was to exit in identical fashion in 1970 . |
| 23 | At the time the rebel tour was arranged , it was made crystal-clear to all the potential participants that a direct consequence of their actions would be an immediate five-year international ban . |
| 24 | It was made compulsory in Denmark , Norway , and Sweden around 1810 . |
| 25 | All development was brought under control ; with certain exceptions , it was made subject to the permission of the local planning authority . |
| 26 | It was made tiny by the three men standing around the bed , but Patrick only recognized the bearded Dan Brady . |
| 27 | It was made easy for me . |
| 28 | The conjoint condemnation of enlightened reform from above and a radicalism which derived from doctrines of popular sovereignty was useful because it allowed conservatives to discredit any effort to reform traditional society ; it was possible because the generation of 1760 included pious bureaucrats like Floridablanca , esprits forts like Aranda , and cosmopolitan experts like Olavide ; it was made plausible by the Janus-like face of reform itself . |
| 29 | Except that it was made back-to-back with a third episode , and there is an extraordinary air of expediency about it . |
| 30 | The idea was not new ; it had been first put into operation in the preceding reign of Louis-Philippe , but during that period it was made clear to France that she must play second fiddle in the European concert otherwise Britain would turn her out of the orchestra . |