Example sentences of "[vb past] make [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The period between the end of the twelfth century and the middle of the thirteenth saw several crucial innovations in weaponry and armour which helped make the medieval knight what he was always intended to be : a superb fighting machine . |
| 2 | An AA spokesman said : ‘ People tried making an early getaway to beat the traffic but they 've all met up and combined with others returning home from work . ’ |
| 3 | He had already assessed Paul 's due income from the returns of publishing , and proposed to make an annual settlement which would enable Paul to be kept in comfort in the mental home and , also , provide for the education of the children . |
| 4 | I was repeatedly threatened with rape and at one stage they tried to make a fellow detainee rape me . |
| 5 | But when she tried to make a second foray she was hurled out bodily . |
| 6 | After one or two formal speeches ( at which reference was made to our visit as the ‘ first short-term English course since the crushing of the Gang of Four ’ , and I tried to make a suitable reply , ) we were whisked off to the Friendship Hotel to a welcoming meal consisting of Peking duck , ancient duck 's eggs , and other good things , and I wielding our chopsticks to the best of our ability . |
| 7 | But any residents of Tokyo who tried to make a last-minute airline booking were probably disappointed . |
| 8 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 9 | At the same time he tried to make an economic case for expenditure in that area : ‘ Moreover , from the trade point of view , this area was probably worth between one and one and a half million employed men to this country . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , it was something like a castle , and he 'ad tons of servants and a butler as well , and a sister who was secretly a witch and tried to make the poor girl worship Satan , but — ’ |
| 11 | They tried to make the Social Work Department follow its guidelines , but some of the parents believed the social workers did n't know much about the document at all . |
| 12 | Soper was firmly in the tradition of those liberals who tried to make the Christian gospel more acceptable to ‘ modern man ’ by explaining away the supernatural and miraculous elements . |
| 13 | He unwrapped the handkerchiefs , contrived to get a good amount of mud down his boots and pretended to make a bad landing from the monkey rope and was dispatched to the sanatorium with a suspected sprain . |
| 14 | Rebecque pretended to make a careful inspection , then shook his head reassuringly . |
| 15 | Initially these are single-point characters , each designed to make a particular contribution to the course of the story , but during the narrative the lads , all around seventeen or eighteen , act with a degree of independence which lends a new depth to the book . |
| 16 | ‘ We were all aware we 'd made a total cock-up . |
| 17 | Michael , when he was at s When he was at school , he won a scholarship to university , when he got to the university he said as if he 'd made a great discovery . |
| 18 | She 'd made a helpless gesture with one beautifully manicured hand . |
| 19 | ‘ At first I was prepared to think you 'd made a genuine mistake — that you 'd got the wrong boat . ’ |
| 20 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 21 | In fact , he 'd made a real scene about it yesterday . |
| 22 | The one with the fine stripes looked slightly flashier , but he 'd made a better ironing job of the plain one . |
| 23 | I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible . |
| 24 | He 'd made a regular spaghetti junction of his potato . |
| 25 | So you 'd made a verbal contract over the phone with a lady who you found living on the premises so you had every right to believe that she owned the furniture . |
| 26 | The Judge said they 'd made a strong case about how they 'd be affected by noise from the road . |
| 27 | The Judge said they 'd made a strong case about how they 'd be affected by noise from the road . |
| 28 | He 'd made a good start but now he was faltering , and the focus of attention was drifting slowly away from him . |
| 29 | She 'd made a funny face . |
| 30 | At first it looked as though I 'd made a big mistake . |