Example sentences of "made [pers pn] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My fear has made me a prisoner in my own home ; I go out only for essential shopping . |
| 2 | ‘ I am older than the king ; and grief has made me a man . ’ |
| 3 | I suppose the problem was that my interest in birds had made me a bit of a loner . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's made me a mint . ’ |
| 5 | It had made me a coward as well as a lecher . |
| 6 | It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've made me a soldier . ’ |
| 8 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . ’ |
| 9 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . |
| 10 | That 's made me a lot calmer . |
| 11 | the Army 's made me a lot better person . |
| 12 | ‘ If you 'd made me a cup of coffee , ’ I say , ‘ I could have walked home . ’ |
| 13 | He 's made me a cup of tea ! |
| 14 | Indeed , had the student been in a different ( e.g. less selective ) school or college , his/her performance might well have made him/her a success . |
| 15 | I 've already made them a promise , those kids we 're going to have . |
| 16 | At the last minute , enough congressmen rally round to get the package through the House of Representatives : not because they believe in it , but because Mr Clinton has made them an offer they can not refuse , or worse , because they pity him . |
| 17 | Must have made you a fortune . ’ |
| 18 | And he 'd have made you a home . ’ |
| 19 | I might have made you a loan , or found some other way to help you out . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've made you a cup of coffee — and I should drink it while it 's still hot , if I were you . ’ |
| 21 | There you are I 've made you a cup of tea . |
| 22 | Hey now for the past three mornings I 've got up out of bed , I 've made you a cup of tea every morning and breakfast on a tray , so do n't you come complaining to me . |
| 23 | Now Would you say that seeing the T V adverts for special issues has made you a lot more likely to buy them , |
| 24 | She seems to thrive on heretical statements and swimming against the tide : ‘ I look at what the cosmetic trade is doing and walk in the opposite direction , ’ she declares with the kind of outspoken defiance that has made her a retailing legend in the decade it took her to turn The Body Shop into a worldwide phenomenon . |
| 25 | The same year ( 1017 ) he married Emma , herself a generous giver to churches , whose previous experience as Æthelred 's wife ought to have made her a fount of good advice on English churches and churchmen and how they were best dealt with . |
| 26 | Not only had Ryan ruined her love and her trust , but he had also made her a coward . |
| 27 | Young Patsy ‘ Eighth Wonder ’ Kensit displays the style and poise that has made her a Hollywood superstar . |
| 28 | It was a long walk from the lock , but Harry had made her a box on wheels in which to push the two little girls , Corrie Palmer and her last child , Lily , who was seven months younger . |
| 29 | In the bedroom Caterina and Rosalba shared in the apartment in Rupe , smaller than their room in the farmhouse , Rosa questioned her sister , whispering , the night after Tommaso had made her a gift of the bird in the street in sight of everyone coming out of Mass . |
| 30 | Despite her exclusion from formal power after James V 's death , sheer personality had made her a force in political life in the 1540s . |