Example sentences of "to make [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , certainly Caspar would be told to make ready the royal bed-chamber tonight . |
| 2 | At any rate , Barth himself was to come to make exactly the opposite criticism of the book , which he later used to call ‘ my well-known false start ’ . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 4 | It is not our practice to make public the precise dates of submarine construction or related programmes . |
| 5 | The atmosphere was hostile enough to make even the sturdiest outfit crumble , with almost 38,000 — the biggest crowd in England this season outside Wembley — turning Anfield into a seething cauldron . |
| 6 | We played badminton and sang folk songs , but we knew as we wept and prayed with refugees from Czechoslovakia that it would not be long before we were asked to make even the supreme sacrifice to stop , if we could , the Nazi menace . |
| 7 | IT 'S the picture to make even the strongest beefcake Gladiator go weak at the knees as the stars of the hit TV series show off their biggest fans , the Gladiatots . |
| 8 | And how was anyone to make even the bottom step of that wretched ladder thing when the launch was rising and falling like a demented yo-yo ? |