Example sentences of "i made [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Jones recalls , ‘ I made him a robe and head-dress and his father made him a crook .
2 When we got to my house , I gave Man Friday some trousers , and I made him a coat and a hat .
3 Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me .
4 " He just came down here , and I made him a cup of tea and we said an act of contrition together . "
5 But I made him a vow , ’ she shrugged .
6 him something else for Christmas , something smaller and I made him a model out of matchsticks and I said this is the prototype
7 God knows why — I made him the same way I made the rest of you — but there it is .
8 I made him an illusion .
9 You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry .
10 she was smoking like that so I made her a cup of tea took it in and put it on the stool .
11 I made her a cup of coffee , she went to sleep .
12 And I have , I think I made mine a bit strong !
13 well any way look , if I made you a thin bit of steel straight across the centre like that
14 I made you a drink last night duck .
15 I made you a drink today and all .
16 Yeah , cos I made you a sandwich and you sat in the garden chair .
17 After drawing a blank on Rhodes , I had to write something that justified my travelling expenses , so I made you the villain of the piece .
18 When I saw from the papers that Miss Ella Shields , the original Burlington Bertie from Bow , was to appear for a week at the Pantages Theatre on Hastings Street , I made it a point of seeing the show .
19 I soon realized that if I made it a bit spicy , I 'd get more than threepence for it , so I used to make up limericks , things like ,
20 I made it a rule — which , it is true , he broke from time to time when he had something particularly pressing or intimate to convey — that he should not drop into French while we were together .
21 I made it a condition that I 'd only do it with an American choreographer , and my assistant is American , too . ’
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