Example sentences of "made [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I made them with a ruler , ’ he says . |
| 2 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 3 | Owen made his on a December day in Washington at the Jefferson Memorial , a grim day , when he had discovered that his father was dying : ‘ And I do n't know whether many of you know , but around the ceiling , engraved in the marble , is a statement that was made once … and I guess I took that to heart . ’ |
| 4 | I did n't re I thought he actually made a person , I did n't realize he made himself into a person . |
| 5 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 6 | If you made everything into a joke , people thought that nothing mattered to you , that you took nothing seriously . |
| 7 | Robert Hennell , 1741–1811 , a London silversmith , made one with a handle in the form of a nymph and the base as a dolphin , decorated with shells and rocks — all covered with a frosted finish . |
| 8 | A mother who has put her daughter on the stage and made her into a teenage star is obviously aware that she is moulding something special . |
| 9 | She could be matched to any of four performers in the floorshow ; Josie was n't sure why , but it was as if her teenager 's skin and certain odd , somehow held-back elements of her personality made her into a blank sheet onto which anything could be drawn . |
| 10 | She had never seen him with his hair cut short , and the absence of the red-blond locks made him for a moment unrecognisable . |
| 11 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 12 | George Best , a thin teenager from Belfast , whose dribbling skills made him into a star with Manchester United and the darling of the sports and gossip columns epitomized the new era . |
| 13 | Manitou , ( the Great Spirit ) was so touched by the Indian 's devotion that upon his death Manitou made him into a rock standing off the inlet , and that monument has been called Siwash Rock ever since . |
| 14 | I think sometimes I ca n't help but think it 's how they made him in a way , you know , like I , you , sometimes your , I think you should sit down and play with something , but he wo n't sit quiet and amuse himself |
| 15 | They , they did have the option that they could have had complete absolute egalitarianism and made everybody into a poor peasant , but the commun but the commun the Communist Party were progressive and they s saw that how that you needed to have industrialization in order to increase the welfare of peasants which was their ultimate aim , and I mean it appears that how that they did n't actually care er what kinds of means they 'd have to achieve that , as in capitalism was justified in this longer term perspective . |
| 16 | The Nazis took it over during the Second World War and made it into a museum of the German Army . |
| 17 | THE STORY of the legendary Lawrence of Arabia has fascinated the media for many years , not least director David Lean , who made it into a famous feature film with Peter O'Toole in 1962 . |
| 18 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
| 19 | What is usually said about the invention of printing is that it greatly expanded an earlier minority culture , and at last made it into a majority culture . |
| 20 | The plea was heartfelt , but the tone of her voice made it into a peremptory command , and his eyes narrowed . |
| 21 | Originally it had no towers and was aisleless , but extensive additions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made it into a three-aisled church with a tall tower . |
| 22 | She folded the silver square of wrapping paper in half and made it into a little boat . |
| 23 | He organised my stag weekend last year and made it into a memorable one . |
| 24 | But he left to take on the run-down Staffordshire country house called Alton Towers and made it into a top leisure and theme park . |
| 25 | And it was like , nothing , so we just extended all this out and made it into a stage come , a bigger dance floor cos the I do n't know why they wa always seem to have this trends that , they have these trends in the seventies and that was , and eighties of having small dance floors |
| 26 | And then in the , where the bath used to be , in this little bathroom I had the cooker and the washer that 's it , I made it into a little kitchen so |
| 27 | Citizenship presumably had certain advantages which made it worth a man 's while taking it up , but in a period of increasing civic oligarchy one may wonder how greatly these outweighed the disadvantages . |
| 28 | With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose , Kent , where regulars called 999 . |
| 29 | It was past two when Wycliffe and Kersey made it to a pub for lunch ; a pub not far from the bookshop . |
| 30 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |