Example sentences of "make [pron] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only had he made a unique and convulsing impact on this generous but hard-headed man , he had made it as an actor . |
| 2 | Had n't she finally made it as an integrated human being without the help of her father ? |
| 3 | The bland Norwegian dropped it in so casually that Carrington made something of an idiot of himself . |
| 4 | Well they can make her into an old , old lady |
| 5 | Nothing seemed to exist outside that swaying chair and Simon , whose terrifying ability to repress his own humanity made him into an enemy that Gazzer did n't know how to defeat . |
| 6 | So , what , what word do you make it into an open question ? |
| 7 | Then you can make it into an easier idea of what I mean . |
| 8 | Sir Alec Guinness 's head refused to put him in the school play — thinking he would never make it as an actor . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll never make it as an American , that 's for sure , ’ Cora-Beth said as she tucked her arm through Harry 's . |
| 10 | ‘ What made it into an island then ? ’ |
| 11 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 12 | Buy a caravan with a horse , maybe , and try and make it into an adventure . |
| 13 | Three things I 've always wanted to do : go to Machu Picchu , put my foot in Lake Titicaca and make it with an oriental chick . |
| 14 | They are making me into an addict , so that I may never leave home … . |
| 15 | As I had come to know a number of rectors and vicars in the course of my journeys , for reasons which I have mentioned , Eliot questioned me about what he felt might he a mounting danger , namely that the Church might seek to increase by chauvinism what it appeared to be losing in spirituality : and indeed the vicar of my own village had been upbraided by a group of parishioners for not preaching sermons directly furthering the war effort , which Eliot said was tantamount to making him into an unpaid official of the MOI . |
| 16 | Long before this time wooden huts were made in these areas , by primitive peoples , which had domed structures built over square forms supported by means of planks set across the angles of the square thus making it into an octagon . |
| 17 | Erm so basically he 's still there and they 've got rid of me making it as an excuse but Charles as partner is his brother , Nicholas . |
| 18 | What can I do that makes me into an acceptable human being ? |
| 19 | You have to go through a short course at the R A F College Cranwell and then once that that teaches you the R A F side of it makes you into an officer because at the end of the day you maybe there to do public relations but if the spaghetti hits the fan you 're an officer and you 're a combatant and you know you carry a gun around when you 're in a war zone and you know you 're expected to use it and if the senior officer of the unit next to you gets shot and you 're the most senior officer then you take over |
| 20 | And 47-year-old Peter , who models himself on rock legend Elvis Presley , reckons he has the perfect record to make him into an all-round star — Bhingi Bajee Boogy . |
| 21 | Arriving like a final dea ex machina , Doris 's condition makes her like an ironic version of that goddess in Tennyson 's ‘ oenone ’ , ‘ Idalian Aphrodite beautiful , / Fresh as the foam , new-bathed in paphian wells . ’ |
| 22 | When this opening was created between two rooms , elegant display shelving , storage cupboards and stylish Victorian lace curtains were added to make it into an attractive feature |
| 23 | The clever part is that this frame can be manipulated to make it into an irregular shape as required to match the text to the graphic . |
| 24 | On the other hand , if he makes it as an international tighthead , that line-out capability will prove a handsome bonus as well as his ballast in a Scottish scrummage which has struggled of late . |