Example sentences of "made [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One senior officer described policewomen as having an ‘ instinct for tidiness ’ which made them good administrators ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 33 ) ; frequently they were described as being suited to dealing with child and female offences because of their more compassionate natures compared to male colleagues . |
| 2 | Many people feared involvement in popular education because it made them immediate targets of the Contras . ’ |
| 3 | Almost all of the early wines were fortified with a good glug of grape spirit tossed into the fermenting brew , which made them mighty bruisers . |
| 4 | The majority of people that went through that service all had some recollection of things they did n't enjoy very much but they by and large thoroughly enjoyed their experience in the Army , it livened them up , it made them better men and we have got after all one of the best armies if not the best army in the world , it 's got to come from |
| 5 | If he had kissed her with passion or some brutal demand to impose his will on her then she could have found the strength to fight him , but there was no way she could resist this aching tenderness , this joining that made them one whole . |
| 6 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 7 | An irresistible softness with an inner strength that made them million sellers . |
| 8 | As for the next ten years of Brookside , Eithne and the elusive Chrissie Rogers offer their best regards to the series that made them both household names . |
| 9 | Carrie stood knee deep in the dry , sweet-smelling hay and helped Albert take Frederick 's huge forkfuls that were so heavy , sometimes , it made them both stagger . |
| 10 | Let down , their elation leaking away , they had decided to give up , and taken a taxi back to Alice 's mother 's house , where Alice made them both coffee and scrambled eggs . |
| 11 | But tutors were so impressed with the two girls ' work in textiles that they made them unconditional offers . |
| 12 | Donna took a hurried bath , Julie made them some tea and , as the hands on the clock above the open fireplace crawled round to 3.56 , they both sat down , one on either side of the table in the centre of the room . |
| 13 | But the sheer range and volume of business with which the secretaries of state dealt made them important officers of government . |
| 14 | The Central Area pulled all these parts together , as it were , and made them interdependent portions of the whole . |
| 15 | It probably made them half cousins . |
| 16 | But I think what , perhaps the , the best thing to do is when the transcriptions come back , and this may not be till the summer because it is a very long long process , when they come back , they will all go back to the person who made them ten people . |
| 17 | ‘ I made me second team debut when I was eight year old , ’ he claims . |
| 18 | That made me manic depressive . |
| 19 | ‘ That made me six foot seven inches tall . ’ |
| 20 | trousers , boots , fucking the leggings , the gloves , the mask anything , he made me fucking walk into the sea . |
| 21 | Dadda , voyaging day by day farther out on his black sea of depression , made his one contribution to the talk . |
| 22 | ‘ We made ourselves some ro is , and when we 'd eaten them , I set out for home . |
| 23 | It was then , with my other 's encouragement , that I started having lessons , and in 1975 I made my professional début . |
| 24 | ‘ At Bulawayo we had 45,000 crowds for club games and I made my international debut at 14 , so I was n't that ‘ wowed ’ to arrive in England . ’ |
| 25 | The talk , in lurid detail , of filth and porn and how excruciatingly disgusting it all was , made my broad-minded friend feel nauseated and he left . |
| 26 | A few weeks after the month which comprised SBAAT/HMS Ark Royal , HMY Britannia and the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race 1995 Launch Event , Forth Ports made my in-house function redundant ( of which more if we talk ) . |
| 27 | The dust storms made my new bike very dirty . |
| 28 | ‘ He is the man who murdered my father and sister when he attacked Tracy Castle , who made my other sister 's life such a hell that she killed herself rather than endure it any longer , and who then would have forced me to wed him in her place . ’ |
| 29 | It made my one minute I thought help ! |
| 30 | That I had suffered neither Radiotherapy nor Chemotherapy made my fraudulent feeling grow by the minute . |