Example sentences of "make [pron] [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling guilty does not make me a better person . |
| 2 | A child , I feel , will make me a better person and draw the attention of others to my good character . |
| 3 | I asked her if she had any medication that would make me a better surfer . |
| 4 | ‘ It wo n't make me a better player , ’ added Strachan , ‘ but it 's always nice to get a pat on the back . ’ |
| 5 | She 'll make me a good wife , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 6 | An American editor deleted a comment from one of her books when a father tells his daughter : ‘ Do n't bother about school because you 're a pretty little thing and will make someone a good wife . ’ |
| 7 | Do you think it 'll make you a better person ? |
| 8 | There is nothing that will make you a better surfer . ’ |
| 9 | His books were not widely circulated and in one of the last two which were dedicated to his son ( and unpublished ) was the assertion that it contains instances " that will make you a better interpreter of dreams than all , or at least inferior to none ; but , if published , they will show you know no more than the rest " — a sentiment which T. R. Glover rather pithily describes as suggesting science declining into profession . |
| 10 | ‘ Any of them would make you a better wife than I could . |
| 11 | I always said I 'd make you a better partner , did n't I ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll make you a good wife , Tyler . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd make you a good wife — and she loves you too . ’ |
| 14 | If I stay , I can make you the best horsewoman in the district — one your husband will be proud of and one that the other ladies will envy when you ride to hounds . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And you would make him a good wife . ’ |
| 16 | She would make him a good wife , ’ he added wistfully , looking into his own bleak future . |
| 17 | ‘ That time would make him the best dog at the track , ’ said joint racing manager Jimmy Nunn . |
| 18 | And that does n't make it a good single . |
| 19 | ‘ Which would make it a good place to try to get in . ’ |
| 20 | Or her , ’ she would add scrupulously , being among other things a feminist ) , but in practice this does n't seem to affect her behaviour very noticeably — she seems to have ordinary human feelings , ambitions , desires , to suffer anxieties , frustrations , fears , like anyone else in this imperfect world , and to have a natural inclination to try and make it a better place . |
| 21 | Just because it 's a Number One does n't make it a better record than anything else that 's out that week . |
| 22 | This must make it the best value in multimedia ever offered to schools . |
| 23 | And by , becoming religious and observing religious , er , practices does not make us a better person . |
| 24 | ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’ |