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 | But tutors were so impressed with the two girls ' work in textiles that they made them unconditional offers . |
| 5 | But the sheer range and volume of business with which the secretaries of state dealt made them important officers of government . |
| 6 | The Central Area pulled all these parts together , as it were , and made them interdependent portions of the whole . |
| 7 | That made me manic depressive . |
| 8 | trousers , boots , fucking the leggings , the gloves , the mask anything , he made me fucking walk into the sea . |
| 9 | It was then , with my other 's encouragement , that I started having lessons , and in 1975 I made my professional début . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | The dust storms made my new bike very dirty . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | That I had suffered neither Radiotherapy nor Chemotherapy made my fraudulent feeling grow by the minute . |
| 16 | And hence Stephanie 's shock-horror performance when I made my innocent enquiries ? ’ |
| 17 | I tried to get the trade unions into a form which made my managerial activities easier rather than trying to let them find a consensus between themselves . |
| 18 | I made my original prediction because I believed that , whatever people said , once they got into a polling booth , lots of them simply would n't vote for Kinnock . |
| 19 | ‘ Where the gas seeped weakly over the rock , ten thousand or so miles from the blasted pits of volcanic ore that blazed with the light of a thousand suns , there I made my abhorred discovery … ’ ’ |
| 20 | My hand was throbbing and light-headedness was giving way to a headache which made my left eyebrow twitch . |
| 21 | It was then that I made my never-to-be-forgotten answer , ‘ Mum 's lost , down the fair . ’ |
| 22 | And me with my second-class honours degree , standing there with corns on my hands saying yes sir , no sir , till I made my smart answer , my quick repartee . |
| 23 | Well-that 's when I made my big mistake . |
| 24 | Then on the last night I made my big mistake , and hit that bad business I told you about . |
| 25 | And I had a thought that made my whole body thrill with shame . |
| 26 | She was superb throughout , counselling me to stay out , and this made my eventual decision all the more poignant . |
| 27 | Mum had said that if he made himself invisible people would like him and he wanted that very much . |
| 28 | Lynne — then just plain Jean Dudley — was a teenager when she made her professional debut . |
| 29 | Belinda , who has had chemotherapy which made her blonde hair fall out , had just one thing on her mind yesterday — her present . |
| 30 | She made her leisurely way towards where she had told Alexander to be . |