Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 and it 's the literacy that just de made them into child adults
2 It is they who plucked starving kids from the back streets and made them into heroes before they sank into oblivion mentally and metaphorically .
3 when they wore thin on the end and we had to put a new link in we never threw the two halves of the link away , we pointed them and made them into staples .
4 But if surfers could no longer make those connections through space , they made them through time .
5 And er in the apprentice we used to have to go round the shops on the town matching their er material in velvets and ribbons and satin for making their hats of , as well as the straw we made them from material as well .
6 Made them in Leicester , Nottingham , Scotland and then the products that made from them were made in this country , Nottingham , Leicester and Scotland .
7 That 's what record companies do , they give 'em just enough money to go and make a single , tell 'em they 're gon na make them into stars and the next minute , they do n't push the single , they do n't bother with it .
8 The argument is that we or others have made mistakes in the past or would make them in circumstances which , so far as we can tell , are not relevantly different from our present circumstances .
9 ‘ I know it said in the paper that Germany was prosperous because of all the armaments they make , but we do n't make them in Liverpool . ’
10 We have feelers , metal strips , that are one and a half thou thick , we call it , you ca n't have them any thinner because they can make them in Sheffield at one thou thick but they suffer and bend by use .
11 No the guests will not be in costume , we thought it was unfair that they should make them in costume .
12 I was just old enough to become crazy about cowboy films , but even handsome Buck Jones could n't make me like Auntie Julie any better .
13 She lived at New Houses , and was related to me in a mixed up kind of way — her father and my grandmother were cousins , but what that made me to Miss Bayles I can not imagine !
14 Because another one was er we come down the houses in here , empty houses and in , in the summer they used to grow flowers , Marguerites , and we used to go in the backyard , we were n't supposed to , er and cut these flowers and make them into bunches and , and sell them for tuppence and thruppence a bunch .
15 What you 've got to do now is make them into salesmen , forgive me again for using the phrase salesmen , I appreciate that all of you are not men .
16 They used to use , make them into flashers and hooks for hedge cutting and
17 For this team game , get two paper cups and make them into button catchers by piercing a hole in the bottom with a needle or pin and threading through a length of reasonably strong cotton .
18 Is that how they make them at school darling ?
19 All the iron men make them for keepsakes .
20 These two people , whose success is almost totally dependent upon the effectiveness of the publicity machines which have made them into heroes , are currently ( eternally , it seems ) in just about every magazine and paper you pick up .
21 Gerard Fusil , relieved that so many teams had made it across Costa Rica , decided to make the parachuting stage for fun only , making GIGN the winners at the end of the ride 'n' run .
22 But while on the subject of confessing ignorance , I must also state that I have so far made it through life without witnessing or participating in an Orange Walk .
23 Those who graduated from the KESA had made it as members of a close-knit elite .
24 So you 've finally made it to manhood !
25 That band , the Drop Nineteens , have finally made it to Britain , 18 months after their demos slipped out of Boston to seduce a briefly shoe-gazing-infatuated press .
26 This boat 's already made it to Britain from Bulgaria to take part … some of the French contingent appears to come from another world
27 As the enemy closes in , the hero , safe in the knowledge that his comrades have made it to safety , shoots himself so that the enemy may not take him alive .
28 Captured — and he had almost made it to safety .
29 Umpire Ken Palmer had no more chance than any other human being of seeing to the inch whether Gooch had made it to safety in those split-seconds .
30 He had just made it to Crabbies Distillery when he was assaulted .
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