Example sentences of "he [was/were] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1976 he was made private secretary to Cardinal Hume and in 1982 he was made a Vicar General of the Archdiocese with special responsibility for priests . |
| 2 | Mr Wise , who is 42 , felt that he had reached his peak at Reuters in 1987 when he was made technical projects manager . |
| 3 | Unfortunately for Albert he was made 12th man and , with no substitutes allowed in those days , spent the match idle on the players ' bench . |
| 4 | He was made imperial generalissimo in 1625 . |
| 5 | He was made assistant tutor , proceeding MA in 1812 , when he became sole tutor and vice-principal . |
| 6 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |
| 7 | But since he was made redundant Pat is the breadwinner for James and their two children , Scott , 17 , and Fiona , 15 . |
| 8 | On 4 March 1250 he was made chief justice of the forest on both sides of the Trent , an office which he exercised for two and a half years until 25 October 1252 . |
| 9 | At the end of the month he was made chief steward , approver and surveyor of the principality of Wales and the earldom of March , and in mid December steward of Monmouth . |
| 10 | At the end of the month he was made chief steward , approver and surveyor of the principality of Wales and the earldom of March , and in mid December steward of Monmouth . |
| 11 | In 1884 he was made honorary LLD at Edinburgh University and an honorary member of the Medico-Legal Society of New York . |
| 12 | He received an honorary LLD at Birmingham and St Andrews ; on retirement in 1935 he was made emeritus professor at Manchester . |
| 13 | He was made Emeritus Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery by the University of Liverpool and is a Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association . |
| 14 | He was made Senior Art Adviser for the West Riding County Council in 1947 , where he worked among other things , on a policy of buying pictures for schools . |
| 15 | Mr Portillo , at 38 the youngest Cabinet member since Dr David Owen , who was also 38 when he was made Foreign Secretary in 1977 , replaces Mr David Mellor , the new Heritage Minister , who presided over a significant increase in public spending in the run up to the election . |
| 16 | In 1985 he was made Head Gardener of Killerton , an arboretum famous for its rare trees and shrubs . |
| 17 | In each of his letters he had told Mum that he was making great progress . |
| 18 | Last autumn he was making great progress , thriving on fast ground to score twice at Pontefract . |
| 19 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 20 | He was making intolerable assumptions about her character , and rage flooded Maria 's mind in a scalding cascade . |
| 21 | He was making all kinds of gags too . |
| 22 | By July 1909 he was making successful flights of several miles , and in August was awarded the Aeronautical Society 's silver medal . |
| 23 | His speech was slurred , he was making visual misinterpretations , looking very dishevelled , and seeming scarcely able to keep his eyes open . |
| 24 | Christian orthodoxies , he was making dogged attempts to come to terms with his sado-masochistic tendencies . |
| 25 | The dragon 's internal boiler was situated very near to its stomach , and since he was making tremendous efforts to cool down , there were also terrifying hissing and grinding sounds . |
| 26 | Later , in June 1984 , he spoke of Oscar Wilde and James Dean in a similar light : ‘ James Dean , even though he was making enormous strides forward with his craft , was still incredibly miserable and obviously doomed . |
| 27 | He was making these trips at the suggestion of Lucas , the engineer to the GS&W ; , who said that if the distress got much worse , the government could hardly resist appeals to include authorized railways in the list of acceptable public works . |
| 28 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 29 | ‘ I heard he was making some kind of detective story with McQueen . ’ |
| 30 | Paige looked round , unsure if he was making some allusion to her or not . |