Example sentences of "[pers pn] was make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was made head girl there and captain of the senior hockey team . |
| 2 | I was making good time when my eye was caught by a small , wooden sign , on which was written , ‘ Harristown Dolmen ’ . |
| 3 | I was making heavy weather of it but dared not rest for the cold . |
| 4 | While I was making some tea there was a tremendous crash . |
| 5 | Well I think the the er other point I was making last week was that erm this whole are of learning theory is erm y'know a very traditional area . |
| 6 | And I just turned round cos I was making these trigger things , you know this cavity |
| 7 | She was made Head Girl and although it was not acknowledged by anyone in authority , she was already drinking too much . |
| 8 | I could see her paws sticking out through the wire door and she was making one hell of a racket . |
| 9 | She was making good progress and was well up to standard |
| 10 | She was making hard work of plucking the goose . |
| 11 | You was making that tape yesterday is n't it ? |
| 12 | It was made clear thoughout that Women for Socialism are not attempting to set the agenda for other women 's groups . |
| 13 | And erm in between the wars , erm it was made double track , er up towards over there . |
| 14 | This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use . |
| 15 | I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long . |
| 16 | ‘ I consider that in enacting the Damages ( Scotland ) Act , parliament did not consider that it was making any change to the right of parents to sue for damages for the death of a child who had sustained injuries prior to birth , had been born alive and had subsequently died in consequence of these pre-natal injuries . ’ |
| 17 | In 1976 he was made private secretary to Cardinal Hume and in 1982 he was made a Vicar General of the Archdiocese with special responsibility for priests . |
| 18 | Unfortunately for Albert he was made 12th man and , with no substitutes allowed in those days , spent the match idle on the players ' bench . |
| 19 | He was made imperial generalissimo in 1625 . |
| 20 | He was made assistant tutor , proceeding MA in 1812 , when he became sole tutor and vice-principal . |
| 21 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |
| 22 | But since he was made redundant Pat is the breadwinner for James and their two children , Scott , 17 , and Fiona , 15 . |
| 23 | On 4 March 1250 he was made chief justice of the forest on both sides of the Trent , an office which he exercised for two and a half years until 25 October 1252 . |
| 24 | At the end of the month he was made chief steward , approver and surveyor of the principality of Wales and the earldom of March , and in mid December steward of Monmouth . |
| 25 | At the end of the month he was made chief steward , approver and surveyor of the principality of Wales and the earldom of March , and in mid December steward of Monmouth . |
| 26 | In 1884 he was made honorary LLD at Edinburgh University and an honorary member of the Medico-Legal Society of New York . |
| 27 | He received an honorary LLD at Birmingham and St Andrews ; on retirement in 1935 he was made emeritus professor at Manchester . |
| 28 | He was made Emeritus Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery by the University of Liverpool and is a Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association . |
| 29 | He was made Senior Art Adviser for the West Riding County Council in 1947 , where he worked among other things , on a policy of buying pictures for schools . |
| 30 | Mr Portillo , at 38 the youngest Cabinet member since Dr David Owen , who was also 38 when he was made Foreign Secretary in 1977 , replaces Mr David Mellor , the new Heritage Minister , who presided over a significant increase in public spending in the run up to the election . |