Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] made [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Must have made you a fortune . ’
2 I might have made you a loan , or found some other way to help you out . ’
3 That could have made him a candidate for murder , could n't it ? ’
4 It remains to decide whether the Unionists would have accepted fusion if Lloyd George could have made it a real option in 1920 .
5 You could have made it a very unpleasant one for me , but you did n't . ’
6 Mary McKenna , playing in the tournament for the 25th year , could have made it a tie by winning the bottom match but she lost the 15th and 16th to go two down , won the 17th with a big birdie putt and salvaged a half when her opponent , Fiona McKay drove into bushes at the 18th .
7 Well if you we if you knew you were gon na be sick you could have made it a bit more a different colour than that !
8 And he 'd have made you a home . ’
9 A well-rounded elder statesman : Denis Healey has a personal Hinterland , filled with poetry , history , classics and philosophy , which he fears may have made him an over-tolerant politician .
10 But her belief that all women , regardless of wealth , should be offered clothes that were artistic and beautiful , not brash , sexually offensive or uncomfortable , would have made her a worthy member of most of the nineteenth-century dress reform movements .
11 He paused , then added dispassionately , ‘ Had she been born a man , those traits would have made her an excellent ruler . ’
12 The former county boroughs had preferred the unitary approach which would have made them the core of enlarged areas , but when a two-tier system was adopted it was obviously preferable from their point of view to obtain metropolitan district status and thus retain as many services as possible .
13 His alcoholism would have made him an unsuitable colleague for revolutionaries obsessed with the need for secrecy and the dangers of indiscretion .
14 ‘ If I did not believe that , I would have advised our club president , James King , to go to a venue that would have made us a comparative fortune . ’
15 See where this affair with a nobody will lead you ; I would have made you the greatest actress of your generation , and now you are nothing and no one . ’
16 Neil Foster of Essex would have made it a year ago after his spectacular haul of 106 wickets and remembering his superb bowling when he produced the performance of his life as the Test bowling hero of Madras under Gower 's leadership .
17 I guess , if he 'd known , Osvaldo would have made it a priority to kill them all .
18 Pretty , dramatic Suzie , who could twist the younger members of the male sex round her beautifully manicured fingers , would have made it a point of honour to test her feminine power over Svend .
19 If the Institute had been a private company preparing for flotation at the end of 1992 , then its operating surplus of over £600,000 on a turnover of above £8m would have made it a very attractive investment .
20 Another penny would have made it a tidy
21 Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover .
22 The same year ( 1017 ) he married Emma , herself a generous giver to churches , whose previous experience as Æthelred 's wife ought to have made her a fount of good advice on English churches and churchmen and how they were best dealt with .
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