Example sentences of "made [pers pn] [art] [adj] figure " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sunnie 's courage and fighting spirit throughout Jackie 's imprisonment made her a national figure , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Yet Politics among Nations is the book which made him a major figure in the discipline and its message is as we have described it . |
| 3 | He ended up as Prince Bishop of Durham in 1752 where his saintliness ( he was nicknamed ‘ The Beauty of Holiness ’ ) made him a rare figure amongst the lax Georgian episcopate , concerned largely as it was with political intrigue and careerism . |
| 4 | The defensive headers of the tall , red-haired Roberts soon made him a familiar figure at Highbury , and he was the first defending centre-half to earn the name ‘ policeman ’ or ‘ stopper ’ . |
| 5 | Both the scale of his operations and the degree of his specialization in financial business made him a unique figure in early Stuart England , though he did have a few other economic irons in the fire : among them , a share in the tobacco monopoly and the export of iron ordnance in the 1620s and huge purchases of East India Company pepper in 1623 and 1628 . |
| 6 | His size , combined with considerable talent , made him a popular figure at Northampton and Chapman called him a ‘ star artist ’ who could draw in the crowds and was ‘ largely the making of the Northampton team ’ . |
| 7 | His experience and loyalty made him an important figure in the remodelled navy . |
| 8 | If some of Hoppé 's portraits and genre pictures have not stood the test of time , his influence on his contemporaries , his restless experimentation , his role in helping to found the London Salon of Photography , and his nineteen books made him an important figure in the history of twentieth-century photography . |