Example sentences of "and made [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James , one of the best writers who out of love for the old detective story has taken it and made something more of it , once summed it up very neatly . |
| 2 | In comers landed clumsily and made their tricky way nest ward ; outgoers waddled to the edge of the rock and plunged sea wards . |
| 3 | ‘ It will certainly release a lot of the pressure that has surrounded them and made their personal lives very difficult . |
| 4 | It has sandblasted 100 years of black soot off Leeds ' fine civic buildings to reveal the pale sandstone underneath , turned much of the city centre into a traffic-free pedestrian zone and made their old manufacturing mills into museums . |
| 5 | The noise of wheels on uneven roads mingled with the voices of the elite as they alighted at their respective destinations and made their slow and stately way into the houses which had lights in every room from attic to cellar . |
| 6 | They reflect quite accurately the rough intimidating East End world which nurtured the Krays and made their brutish power possible . |
| 7 | He had wrapped her in a blanket off her bed and made her more coffee . |
| 8 | The qualities I had cultivated to help me through , such as diligence , such as dignity , such as keeping my peace , had been , after all , weapons which isolated me and made me loathsome . |
| 9 | The sun moved , came on me , and made me erotic . |
| 10 | That is until we stopped for a toilet break in a lay-by , when the howling gale and torrential rain lashed our naked bottoms like a Cabinet minister in a Soho sauna , and made me glad to be back in the car beside the sleeping-bags . |
| 11 | His long silence worried me and made me frightened . |
| 12 | It was despairing and made him uneasy for a long time afterwards . |
| 13 | His abilities impressed A. C. Headlam [ q.v. ] , principal of King 's College , London , who secured lectureships in ecclesiastical history ( 1905–11 ) and patristics ( 1911–18 ) for him and made him sub-editor ( 1903–18 ) and later joint editor ( 1921–7 ) of the Church Quarterly Review . |
| 14 | In these heady days , Gould 's greed surpassed even his own bounds and made him capable of an ungentlemanly lack of sportsmanship . |
| 15 | And made him one of the leading authorities on the fourteenth century , which was arguably the most terrible century that had ever been , at least until the present one . |
| 16 | This enabled him to tell old jokes as if they were new and made him one of the ‘ all time great ’ story tellers . |
| 17 | The man was Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte ; the many were that section of the French people who , newly enfranchised in 1848 , gave him their votes and made him first their president and then their emperor . |
| 18 | The hardness of Pharaoh 's heart : several times in these chapters God is said to have hardened Pharaoh 's heart and made him obstinate ( 4:21 ; 10:1 ; 20 , 27 ) . |
| 19 | He called Whittaker to his office the following Monday morning and made him chief trainer , waving aside protests of inexperience and of indignation at Hardy 's sacking . |
| 20 | Pietersen , a kindly man , invited the apparition in and made him welcome . |
| 21 | The tone irritated Carey , and made him impatient . |
| 22 | They also failed to take him seriously , and made him angry , but he has carried on the struggle . |
| 23 | He checked and stood amazed , half afraid to believe , and the colour of incredulous joy flushed through his fairness and made him bright as a rose . |
| 24 | Similar outspoken attacks on Tory rebels over charges for eye and dental checks once boosted a revolt — and made him more enemies . |
| 25 | And made him sick . |
| 26 | It reached fruition on 4 Sep 6 , when the " Falcon 50 " was rolled out at Bordeaux , and made its maiden flight on 7 Nov 76 . |
| 27 | The prototype was converted from a production KI.107 and made its first flight over thirty years age , in December 1960 . |
| 28 | At the specific request from an Australian customer , the only low pressure tyre CC version for operation from unprepared landing strips was manufactured , and made its first flight in April 67 . |
| 29 | The RIBA/ARCUK Joint Visiting Panel took over the task of visiting UK schools of architecture in October at the beginning of the 1992–3 academic session and made its first visit to the University of East London . |
| 30 | The team was formed just over two years ago under the tuition of Margaret Charlwood and made its first public appearance at Crystal Palace in November 1981 . |