Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] make [art] [adj] " 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 A week before the children arrived , it was a tense group of host families which gathered to make the final preparations .
3 But these signals did not reach AFHQ until the morning of the next day , 15 May , long after Robertson had sent his response to McCreery 's AC/189 which had only asked for " immediate steps " to be taken over the approach of Army Group E , and which had made no specific reference to Croats .
4 Probably because it started the 1980s with a fleet of new 125mph HSTs which had made a major impact on its market , the East Coast main line was far better placed to withstand the rigours of the recession than its West Coast neighbour .
5 However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all .
6 It was also evident that those departments which had made a strong case for improved resourcing had gained from the appraisal .
7 He also referred to some presumed sexual oddity , which had made the unfortunate Prince lean more heavily on the one woman , out of a number , who seemed able to cope with it .
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