Example sentences of "made doubly [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penry Meredith Vaughan was a man of potent physical attraction , an attraction made doubly powerful by the formidable intellect behind it . |
| 2 | Its exclusion from major anthologies made doubly sure that after a generation or so it was read by almost no one . |
| 3 | He made doubly sure I realised I was an outcast in a heavy-handed way — and he could n't get rid of me fast enough . |
| 4 | She made doubly sure she knew where the paper bags , the brown wrapping paper , the string and the roll of Sellotape were kept . |
| 5 | It opens with a pair of agonised cries of ‘ Michael ’ , an emotive outburst made doubly poignant when one remembers the life-long devastation that the premature death of Howell 's nine-year-old son , Michael , had inflicted on the composer . |
| 6 | They spent much of the winter , from Palm Sunday until late August , in the centre of a chilly and miserable bay at what is now Puerto San Julián — a winter made doubly wretched by an appalling mutiny and the consequent executions and maroonings that Magellan ordered ; by the stranding and wrecking of the Santiago , which the Captain-General had sent on a sounding expedition ; and by the realization of the dreadful damage done to the remaining ships by the constant chomping and feasting of those plank-gourmets of the seas , the teredo worms . |
| 7 | The complete traverse of the mountain is a memorable expedition , made doubly enjoyable by returning the same way . |