Example sentences of "make [pn reflx] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction . |
| 2 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 3 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 4 | He had also made himself the leading authority on fossil fish , taking over Cuvier 's work . |
| 5 | But now Mr Gorbachev has made himself the unpalatable alternative . |
| 6 | It was on this basis of this rationality , embodied in modern science and technology , that cette vielle Europe had triumphed throughout the world , had made itself the universal point of reference . |
| 7 | It is in this rarefied atmosphere that IBM may find the key to once again making itself the preferred partner of big business — a role that it has not recently played to sufficiently enthusiastic reviews . |
| 8 | For similar reasons BA , a Heathrow-based airline , was also keen to establish itself at Gatwick , thereby making itself the dominant airline at Britain 's two largest airports . |
| 9 | Apple liked the idea so much that they invested a 20% stake in Adobe making themselves the largest customer . |
| 10 | While America goes crazy over its new President elect , CARTER USM are busy making themselves the next most popular thing with the inhabitants of that wacky continent and really should have done the decent thing and put themselves up for election . |
| 11 | It used to be thought that , when Offa was styled on occasion in the charters of the period rex Anglorum , this signified that he aspired to lordship over all the Anglo-Saxons or at least to make himself the only king south of the Humber . |