Example sentences of "they [vb past] make [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They helped to make him unmistakable , which he liked . |
| 2 | I would say that , instead of ‘ spoon-feeding ’ the residents , they tried to make them independent . |
| 3 | It may be that the defences against their own feelings which they learned makes it impossible for men to tolerate the intense show of feeling from their women partners which is implicit in weeping . |
| 4 | The problem with the building was that they had made it suicide-proof , so there were no windows you could open on the front . |
| 5 | It was the view of Engels ( 1884 ) that these inheritance arrangements provided the foundation of the development of capitalism in Britain in the nineteenth century , since they had made it possible to retain property and wealth — and with them all other forms of social privilege and power — within the hands of a small number of families from one generation to the next . |