Example sentences of "made [pron] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a certain constraint in his manner now which made them both ill-at-ease . |
| 2 | He made me all wet . |
| 3 | That made me real sad , cos she was my best girlfriend . |
| 4 | The workmen even made me two little chairs and a table , and a lock for the door , so that no rats could get in . |
| 5 | Otley made me some hot milk and honey and helped himself to a cheese and pickle sandwich and a mug of strong coffee . |
| 6 | Damien Cronin made his one telling burst of the match … and that was enough to open the way for Ronnie Eriksson to score … |
| 7 | During the reception I made my first major mistake . |
| 8 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
| 9 | She seated me on her right , and I made my first direct pass as soon as we sat down . |
| 10 | We did not make a direct trip for we took the train to London , then I made my first underground journey to Finsbury Park , the most northerly point on the tube at that time . |
| 11 | But the old market square was still there , the ferry to North Shields ; Ocean Road , the Town Hall , the Library , Trow Rocks , the sands , the pier … . ft was on the pier that I made my first stumbling attempts to start writing poetry on my own again ; my very own poetry : |
| 12 | Before assaulting my cancer with arrows or rolling the healing ball across my stomach , I made my own little pastoral journey . |
| 13 | Fernandez , winner of 19 of his 25 bouts , landed some useful shots at the start before Hardy took control and in the third Hardy made the mistake of giving Fernandez too much of a target , but thereafter made himself more scarce , hitting and moving effectively . |
| 14 | The Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna made her first practical contribution to the improvement of conditions in the countryside when she asked Nikolai Miliutin to tell her how to free the serfs on her Ukrainian estate of Karlovka . |
| 15 | When Hannah made her first public bow , she was constantly in the company of an elderly white cow called Her Ladyship and her love for this awkward beast touched a certain public soft spot — the British are well known for their protective , caring attitude toward animals . |
| 16 | WPC Mandy Waller first met Denise when she made her initial frantic report about James 's disappearance . |
| 17 | Last autumn , she made her English National Opera début as Anna in David Pountney 's production of Weill 's Street Scene , and was next seen on a sloping bed twenty-one feet above the stage , singing Verdi 's Lady Macbeth . |
| 18 | Despite the lecture she 'd been reading herself , excitement had put colour in her cheeks and made her clear golden-brown eyes sparkle . |
| 19 | Wilson made her own little calendar on a sheet of brown wrapping paper and wrote the numbers of each day large so that Pilade might learn them . |
| 20 | She was snapped up as one of the youngest ever Page Three girls but made her last topless appearance on her 21st birthday . |
| 21 | In February 1912 the majority was down to fifty or sixty ; in June the Unionists made their first real attempt to " snap " the government and got the majority down to twenty-two . |
| 22 | This new competition arose out of a battle between banks and building societies which arose when the banks made their first major inroad into the mortgage market . |
| 23 | Lendl ( '84 ) and Graf ( '87 ) made their winning Grand Slam debuts at Roland Garros , while two 17 year olds , Michael Chang and Arantxa Sanchez , took the honours in 1989 , the youngest players to accomplish such a feat . |
| 24 | And his tzedaka — the performance of charitable deeds enjoined on him by his religion — won him the gratitude and loyalty of many of the young men and their dependants , for it was as his travellers that they made their weekly Monday-morning trek to the country , secure in the knowledge that , no matter how erratic the week 's takings might be , their basic wage was guaranteed by Max Klein . |
| 25 | So they made their bold little crosses in the register and set off on their adventure . |
| 26 | Powell and Pressburger made their last disillusioned statement on the post-war mood in The Small Back Room ( 1949 ) , the story of an explosives expert 's struggles against drink and pain that was their first film after the defection to Korda . |
| 27 | It was not , however , until the battle of Carham in 1016 on Northumbrian territory that the Scots made their own effective inroads and claimed Lothian for themselves . |
| 28 | In 1909 the Pathé company , which had by then abandoned cylinders , made their own twenty-inch monsters . |
| 29 | The machines made their own bilious sound which drowned the natural noise of the Earth . |
| 30 | Did Julius Caesar , Charlemagne , the mediaeval popes , Martin Luther , Napoleon or Hitler have any idea what they were doing when they made their own particular contributions to the architecture ? |