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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 ‘ Did it turn your mouth green ? ’ said Rosa to Caterina , ignoring her mother 's placatory offer , ‘ Or did it make your lovely lips pink ? ’
2 It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train .
3 It was identified on the surveillance radar when it made its first position report and was cleared to continue to the BN non-directional beacon .
4 As expected , AST formally announced its Manhattan SMP multi-processor PC' ( UX No 398 , 377 ) — it made its first appearance at CeBit in Hannover this spring .
5 It made its first flight in July , shortly after this photo was taken .
6 The car did not normally carry passengers , but its seats were used that season by a small orchestra which played selections from ‘ The Gondoliers ’ as it made its romantic way along the Promenade .
7 PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control .
8 It made its own terms , and the best you could hope for was it would n't happen the way it had happened to Mary Moxton at the Turk 's Head .
9 it made its last appearance at Watkins Glen — a reluctant Andretti again at the wheel — and failed to shine even in the wet conditions of practice .
10 It made her golden shoulders quiver .
11 Whichever it was the emotion was so strong it made her attempted flirtation with Nahum Morey seem cheap .
12 The absurd rent lured her , it made her hundred pounds look less pathetic than it had when she checked into Mrs Archer 's hotel .
13 She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear .
14 So he persuaded himself , for it made his own sin less grievous that he was not leading her into temptation too .
15 With his unkempt ginger hair running down into sideboards it made his hard face look even meaner .
16 It made my one minute I thought help !
17 Right , and it made my last week .
18 It was a whole new experience , and at first it made my own feeling of being a fraud even more acute .
19 She does this because she feels it to be her duty to God and it makes her happy helping these people .
20 It makes its own kind of sense .
21 Please trust our selection ; it makes your overseas journey shorter , sweeter and more efficient .
22 It makes his whole face seem insubstantial .
23 Gustavo Gutierrez has stressed the importance of this remark for Latin America , adding : ‘ The preference , the predilection ( not exclusive , let's be clear ) for the poor is not opposed in the mind of the Pope to his universal mission ; on the contrary it makes his universal mission quite concrete ’ ( Alberigo and Jossua , pp. 239 , 240 ) .
  Next page