Example sentences of "make [pron] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a certain constraint in his manner now which made them both ill-at-ease . |
| 2 | In the course of approval , LIFESPAN will make them all selected versions . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd make them all interested in you . ’ |
| 4 | On the other hand , feeding deer can make them half tame and easy to see . |
| 5 | He made me all wet . |
| 6 | That made me real sad , cos she was my best girlfriend . |
| 7 | The workmen even made me two little chairs and a table , and a lock for the door , so that no rats could get in . |
| 8 | Otley made me some hot milk and honey and helped himself to a cheese and pickle sandwich and a mug of strong coffee . |
| 9 | Owls ' eyesight is good in dim light but not so good in total darkness ; it is their acute hearing and the accuracy with which they can pinpoint sounds that make them such successful hunters . |
| 10 | Coral are unable to split the pair in ante-post betting for the title and make them 5–1 joint favourites . |
| 11 | Mum , make me some baked beans on toast . ’ |
| 12 | We ca n't make ourselves any different . |
| 13 | Damien Cronin made his one telling burst of the match … and that was enough to open the way for Ronnie Eriksson to score … |
| 14 | During the reception I made my first major mistake . |
| 15 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
| 16 | She seated me on her right , and I made my first direct pass as soon as we sat down . |
| 17 | We did not make a direct trip for we took the train to London , then I made my first underground journey to Finsbury Park , the most northerly point on the tube at that time . |
| 18 | But the old market square was still there , the ferry to North Shields ; Ocean Road , the Town Hall , the Library , Trow Rocks , the sands , the pier … . ft was on the pier that I made my first stumbling attempts to start writing poetry on my own again ; my very own poetry : |
| 19 | Before assaulting my cancer with arrows or rolling the healing ball across my stomach , I made my own little pastoral journey . |
| 20 | I 've been known to moan about the state of some of the roads in our neck of the Surrey woods , but the byways of darkest Saxony make my local rutted tracks seem smooth as glass . |
| 21 | I 'm sure the Delia Copes of this world can make their own boring magazine . |
| 22 | The first stage in the transfer is a preselection process , involving informal discussions with tenants where they may make their own alternative suggestions , which eventually produces a single applicant to go forward to the final stages . |
| 23 | to devise an administrative pattern and way of working in which different disciplines can make their own distinctive contributions to a common area of study ; |
| 24 | Guests can make their own private calls and the metered units will be recorded automatically against their room . |
| 25 | Most of the living cephalopods also have an ink sac which injects a smoky fluid into the water when the animal is threatened , under cover of which they can make their own jet-propelled escape . |
| 26 | Fernandez , winner of 19 of his 25 bouts , landed some useful shots at the start before Hardy took control and in the third Hardy made the mistake of giving Fernandez too much of a target , but thereafter made himself more scarce , hitting and moving effectively . |
| 27 | The Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna made her first practical contribution to the improvement of conditions in the countryside when she asked Nikolai Miliutin to tell her how to free the serfs on her Ukrainian estate of Karlovka . |
| 28 | When Hannah made her first public bow , she was constantly in the company of an elderly white cow called Her Ladyship and her love for this awkward beast touched a certain public soft spot — the British are well known for their protective , caring attitude toward animals . |
| 29 | WPC Mandy Waller first met Denise when she made her initial frantic report about James 's disappearance . |
| 30 | Last autumn , she made her English National Opera début as Anna in David Pountney 's production of Weill 's Street Scene , and was next seen on a sloping bed twenty-one feet above the stage , singing Verdi 's Lady Macbeth . |