Example sentences of "of [pers pn] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Many of them make regular trips to the filmset where it was all put together , at Portmeirion in Wales .
2 It was noticeable that many of them made emotive comments when addressing this question ( for example , ‘ a last resort ’ , or ‘ a place for old people to go when nobody else wants them ’ ) , a reflection possibly of their personal involvement with the residents of the home and concern for their well-being .
3 Had any of them made any approaches to her ?
4 They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation .
5 None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture .
6 ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded .
7 Hugh with his hair wet , carrying Jacqueline and leading his two other daughters , all of them making wet footmarks on the stone floor , came in from the terrace .
8 Everything and something and nothing are all logically interlinked and none of them makes clear sense without the others .
9 None of them fit together , none of them makes any sense .
10 However , neither of them makes any reference to her husband , or to the dynamics of her marriage relationship in these comments , though Norma Larkin makes some ( implicit ) observations about marriage in general .
11 They lived the lives of the folk among whom they worked ; and this may have helped many of them to make real contact with their parishioners .
12 Try to have your progress reviewed regularly with your nurse manager , so that neither of you makes misleading assumptions about your ability to cope or happiness in the job .
13 Not one word of it made any sense at all to him .
14 None of it made any sense .
15 None of it made any sense !
16 But none of it made any difference .
17 In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end .
18 It 's easy to be deceived into thinking none of it makes any sense but it does make sense : a strange , twisted , whimsical , surreal kind of sense .
19 We were so confident of each other 's love that should one of us make that final , selfish decision the other would feel his friend 's sense of loss even more keenly than his own .
20 When we hear the word ‘ power ’ some of us make strong associations with fear , deprivation and a loss of control .
21 Obviously a figure higher than that would take some pressure of us to make those incursions into the green belt , a lower figure conversely would require us to make higher la larger incursions into our greenbelt .
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