Example sentences of "make [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I made them with a ruler , ’ he says . |
| 2 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 3 | Sometimes they are perceived only by those in intimate contact , yet sometimes they can make everyone in a large crowd aware of individual feelings . |
| 4 | Gather together favourite recipes , make them into a booklet and sell for funds . |
| 5 | ‘ They are based on a freelance design and one of the main things was make them with a view to easy maintenance , ’ explained Mr Blackhurst . |
| 6 | First you mix the dough , then you pat it into shape , like a figure in a Nativity crib , with all his fingers , and little fingernails , you make them with a toothpick , and his face , not forgetting ears and nostrils and eyebrows , and you put in his navel , making a little indentation , and you roll some dough for his thingamajig . ’ |
| 7 | Owen made his on a December day in Washington at the Jefferson Memorial , a grim day , when he had discovered that his father was dying : ‘ And I do n't know whether many of you know , but around the ceiling , engraved in the marble , is a statement that was made once … and I guess I took that to heart . ’ |
| 8 | How does it make someone like a woman who has just had an abortion feel having to go to a lavatory to express her grief in tears ? |
| 9 | I did n't re I thought he actually made a person , I did n't realize he made himself into a person . |
| 10 | But he was n't very good , and even to please her ( which was his only motive for practising ) he could not make himself into a musician . |
| 11 | THOMAS PENNANT in his " Tour in Scotland " 1772 writes , " A present was made me of a clach clun ceilach , or cock-knee stone , believed to be obtained out of that part of the bird ; but I have unluckily forgotten its virtues . |
| 12 | THOMAS PENNANT in his " Tour in Scotland " 1772 writes , " A present was made me of a clach clun ceilach , or cock-knee stone , believed to be obtained out of that part of the bird ; but I have unluckily forgotten its virtues . |
| 13 | After she had made me into a clown , she laughed in a very satisfied way . |
| 14 | Gustave would have made me into a hermit had he been able : the hermit of Paris . |
| 15 | Having decided to show all the four seasons in one picture ( as opposed to other occasions when I have made them as a matching set of four separate pictures ) , I had to find a mount that would blend well with all the seasons and colours , so chose an earthy brown . |
| 16 | In this way by not acceding to anger and resentment , he has made himself into a better son . |
| 17 | And talking of unexpected wine styles , Australia has made something of a speciality of mixing Bordeaux Semillon grape with Burgundy 's Chardonnay grape recently . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd 've thought that Arise would have made something of a meal of all that — top financier in shares scandal ; weapons mogul arms IRA ; that sort of thing . ’ |
| 19 | The well-known argument is that the woman 's refusal to concede to sexual intercourse is totally unjustified , since the two bodies have in fact already been made one by a flea , who has been sucking blood from them both . |
| 20 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
| 21 | We agreed that a hospital was very much like a ship , and being under fire had made her like a man of war . |
| 22 | Having waited so long to hear from the ‘ one man ’ who knew what had happened , when he appeared they could do nothing but gaze on him ; having made him into a celluloid star , there was no reason at this point to spoil it , and make him real . |
| 23 | They had made him into a gunman . |
| 24 | It has made him into a bitter man and I quite understand that bitterness . |
| 25 | He did not write well because he had learned his letters late in life and , though Lucille had made him into a much better reader , he was still clumsy with a pen or pencil . |
| 26 | His outrageous leotards , sexy routines and snappy catch-phrases — ‘ I want your body ! ’ — have made him into a sort of Linford Christie with a breakfast box . |
| 27 | Ironically , 25-year-old Josephine had made it as a TV star when Craig was a pipe layer dreaming of fame . |
| 28 | And we have a bicycle which he made in the year eighteen seventy , that was before he had started business on his own and he had erm made it for a young solicitor in Galashiels and I believe it was used in a race from Galashiels from Place in Galashiels to the . |
| 29 | Her dress had been made by a local dressmaker who had made it with a deep frill of black satin round the neck . |
| 30 | But over the past century we have made it into a rubbish dump . |