Example sentences of "make [pron] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went straight into the kitchen , and automatically made them both a cup of coffee , a mutual family ritual when one of them went out to a meeting . |
| 2 | He also designed a bed that could be raised up and down and told Pat to go to the patent office with the plan which would make them both a fortune . |
| 3 | After they had eaten , her mother let Caro make them both a cup of tea . |
| 4 | You made me completely a woman |
| 5 | Lucy remonstrated , when Virginia had made them both a cup of tea and perched herself on the edge of Lucy 's bed . |
| 6 | Years at an English public school , punctuated by all-too-brief holidays in Italy , had made him almost a stranger within his family . |
| 7 | Over coffee back at the office I tried to pull myself together and sell him a traded option in copper which would , as it turned out , have made him quite a lot of money . |
| 8 | It made her more a person and less a policewoman . |
| 9 | His reading of Voltaire 's Philosophical Dictionary made him briefly an atheist ( Boyer beat religion back into him , to lifelong effect ) , but of more lasting consequence was his discovery of twenty-one sonnets by a Wiltshire clergyman called William Lisle Bowles ( 1762–1850 ) . |
| 10 | He served as president of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Italian Royal College of Science ; the latter made him automatically a member of the council of the Fascist party and entitled him to be addressed as His Excellency . |
| 11 | Helen had gone earlier , and when they arrived the number of cars already there made it quite a problem to find a parking space . |
| 12 | I , I made them I started making them quite a while ago . |
| 13 | He successfully invaded Sudan to the south in 1820 , making it effectively a colony , and in some eyes even a part of Egypt . |
| 14 | This weakness left Egypt an easy prey for the rising Ottoman empire that seized the country in 1517 , making it then a province of Istanbul and that loosely structured empire that was to dominate the Middle East until 1918 . |
| 15 | It is a picture which belongs as much to the world of Beatrix Potter ( Major Connolly would no doubt have appreciated the coincidental pun ) as to that of the military gentleman from Bath , making it doubly an insult that the mass-produced pastes and sandwich spreads of the factories should go by the honourable names of potted meat , potted ham , tongue , lobster , salmon , shrimp and the rest . |
| 16 | ‘ If he 's Irish , this man , I hardly need to point out that makes him officially a neutral . |
| 17 | As Robert Blake has confirmed , he helped to rebuild the organization of the Conservative Party and to make it more a party of the people by reorganizing the central Office of the party and by encouraging local parties to at least consider the selection of working-class candidates . |
| 18 | ‘ Being out out there with my son and my wife Debbie ( McGee ) makes it quite a family show , ’ he says . |