Example sentences of "made [pers pn] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has all the tedious public work you have done made you any the better ? |
| 2 | Almost simultaneously , under Ferdinand of Aragon , Miguel Perez de Alamàn began to specialise in the control and direction of relations with other states in a way which made him probably the nearest approach to a minister of foreign affairs hitherto seen anywhere in Europe . |
| 3 | It also made him only the second man in history to score for both sides in a derby clash . |
| 4 | But it made him only the second Briton to conquer Everest without Oxygen equipment . |
| 5 | Indeed , his stern morality and adherence to the ideals of classical republicanism , as mediated through such writers as Algernon Sidney and his own uncle by marriage , Henry Neville [ qq.v. ] , made him almost an archetypal ‘ country ’ member , and he was quickly to the forefront in the agitations against a standing army and political corruption in general . |
| 6 | At Warley the abbot of Halesowen 's rent for the farm of the manor is entered as a separate item , but the identity of the farmer is not revealed ; we may hazard the guess that he was William Hardeley , whose personal estate , amounting to £30 , made him much the wealthiest man in the village . |
| 7 | McMillan was an extremely hard worker but a certain fluidity in his perception of time made him sometimes an unpredictable colleague . |
| 8 | Later legend , however , made him out a Christian hero in the relentless ( though not unchivalrous ) religious war . |
| 9 | But Schopenhauer could not have had his potent influence on the young scholar without an additional aesthetic quality which , in Nietzschean eyes , made him virtually a one-man cultural ideal . |
| 10 | The ‘ gruelling ’ , or at least rigorous , element in the approval process made it frequently a long one , and was often accompanied by the traumatic shock or disappointment of rejection . |
| 11 | The stupidity of his death made it somehow the harder to accept . |
| 12 | made it down the right hand side , he 's wearing number eleven but he came down the right hand side on this occasion and er a deep cross , he pulled it back brilliantly and who 'd missed that earlier header was there and could n't really miss on this occasion , but it was a fine header by him . |
| 13 | Bimbo , his last novel , was a cleverly sustained pastiche of tabloid culture , and the author 's veiled compassion for the eponymous narrator made it all the sharper . |
| 14 | Which made it all the harder to understand why Wilkinson had not begun with Cantona in the side on a summery day that seemed ideally suited to his ball-playing skills . |
| 15 | This made it all the harder for the mother to treat the ailing youngster and she might give up on the treatment for this reason . |
| 16 | The incorporation of the French intellectual tradition and the artistic underground made it all the easier to hide the ideological background of the Socialist regime . |
| 17 | I gently pushed him aside and walked in and he followed me around reading with great enthusiasm while I poured the contents of my shoes down the sink , removed my coat and made us both a hot drink , interjecting now and again with , ‘ Fancy that ! ’ |