Example sentences of "had [adv] make [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence .
2 Pope Gregory VIII ( the former chancellor , Albert de Morra , who had contacts with France ) , who enjoyed only a ten-week pontificate , had already made him a subdeacon between October and December 1187 .
3 If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence .
4 The Prince , then nearly 33 , had already made himself a hostage to fortune by declaring that 30 was a suitable age to settle down .
5 St Paul 's daily routine , as a law-abiding Jew , would have included a prayer to say thank you that God had not made him a Gentile , a slave or a woman — in that order !
6 He had just made himself a cup of coffee and sat in his mum 's kitchen smoking a cigarette .
7 In all the desperate , toiling years she had been in Canada , neither her husband nor her son had ever made themselves a meal , except on one or two occasions when illness had confined her to bed .
8 Tories , long , short and tall , queued with the stoicism that had once made us the envy of the world .
9 I had also made myself a promise that ( a ) I would use up some of the many cones in the cupboard and ( b ) I would try out more of the built-in patterns in the 950i machine .
10 He had also made himself the leading authority on fossil fish , taking over Cuvier 's work .
11 Not only had Ryan ruined her love and her trust , but he had also made her a coward .
12 According to Miss Russell , Isabelle had forced him to treat her child as his own — had even made it a condition of their marriage .
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