Example sentences of "[coord] made [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ the simple facts which the court has to find are whether the defendant 's conduct in fact prevented the police from carrying out their duty , or made it more difficult for them to do so , and whether the defendant intended that conduct to prevent the police from carrying out their duty or to make it more difficult to do so . ’ |
| 2 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
| 3 | For a while she thought that her visions had been a delirium , but then fell into an exhausted sleep when she received her sixteenth revelation in a dream which reassured her and made her deeply ashamed of her doubts . |
| 4 | Sycorax fainted , and Ariel bent her cheek to the discoloured cheek of the old woman and licked the salt that fell in her tears , and when she reached the cabin took her inside where the rush screens would keep the flies off her wounds , and made her as comfortable as she could on the ground , with fresh dressings on her burns , a cool soaked cloth on her forehead . |
| 5 | Flora 's laugh hollowed her cheeks and made her almost beautiful . |
| 6 | Someone , a man , began to sing an old Irish ballad , and the mournful strains of the familiar song filled the air with sadness , tugged at the emotions , and made her more determined than ever to get away quickly . |
| 7 | That took an hour , and made me so tired that I was able to lie down and go to sleep . |
| 8 | He 's left the priesthood now , but has a national profile which has lifted Labour 's campaign locally and made him instantly recognisable to many as he attempts to persuade them that he 's the new broom they need . |
| 9 | Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative . |
| 10 | The summer conversations in Kissingen , the presence in St Petersburg of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich , the greater enthusiasm for reform of Lanskoi at the Ministry of Internal Affairs — all these undoubtedly altered the balance of opinion to which he was exposed and made him more susceptible to reformist sentiments ; but he may also have been naive enough to believe that the gentry at large would follow the example of the north-westerners and welcome the measure he was putting to them . |
| 11 | The vile weather had emptied the streets , and made them particularly frightening ; She tried to forget her fears of the unknown in hearty cursing of the rain . |
| 12 | In Britain booming domestic sales of videocassette machines have brought the prices down and made them more attractive to institutions . |
| 13 | He believed strongly in the psychology of home territory , which invariably put witnesses at their ease and made them more likely to remember little details they might otherwise forget or overlook in strange or foreign surroundings . |
| 14 | Mannitol in the water lowered both osmotic and water potential , and made them almost equal , which is why the leaves adopted the form seen in air . |
| 15 | They also argued that the normalization of such images by SM groups acclimatized people to brutality and made them less percipient about the advent of ‘ real fascism ’ . |
| 16 | We managed to visit her on our way back , however , and she was very pleased to see us and made us most welcome . |
| 17 | He drew a clear division between the " free " world and the Communist world , and made it equally clear that if the Soviet Union tried to expand into the free world the USA was prepared to act . |
| 18 | The Abortion Act of 1967 changed that pattern and made it more useful to consider all the known conceptions outside marriage to observe their changing fate ( figure 4.12 ) . |
| 19 | And made it more black letter . |
| 20 | The EOC found that direct discrimination occurred when managers described the mobility requirement differently to men and women and made it more onerous for women to comply with it . |
| 21 | There had been a morning of heavy rain before the event and this must have reduced the expected numbers present and made it more subdued than it might otherwise have been . |
| 22 | At the time the experts believed that a previous transfusion sensitised the patient and made it more likely that a transplant would be rejected . |
| 23 | At the same time , there were other events which very considerably strengthened the lead from the centre and made it more likely that LEAs would respond positively to the government 's initiatives . |
| 24 | In particular it widened the gap between Labour and National Labour , and made it quite impossible for any reunion to take place . |
| 25 | It was in a terrible state when we moved in but we cleaned it up and made it quite homely . |
| 26 | In England , in particular , it 's high time that both sides — administrators and players — came out into the open and made it quite clear what they want and what they are prepared to do . |
| 27 | In that interim period of that work the draft P P G three came out , and made it quite clear that the new settlement would have to lie without beyond the outer edge of the greenbelt , and that was a fur a further consideration . |
| 28 | Representatives of the NAC met the Guild Council on 21 October and made it quite clear that the NAC could not continue to recognize the Guild as the youth section of the Party if it retained sympathetic affiliation to the Young Communist International . |
| 29 | Only this afternoon , one of the Maison 's new fabric suppliers had asked her out to dinner and made it perfectly plain that he found her attractive . |
| 30 | So he took it and tore the shit out of it , and made it as ratty as possible , ’ says DiCillo . |