Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] made " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the peasant plaintiffs in the Mitry case presumably made the journey to Compiègne believing they might win . |
| 2 | Have new television channels , satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only ? |
| 3 | ‘ That meeting with Ken and his decision to make Ken 's part big made it a sort of broken-back type of play . |
| 4 | Susan clasped her hands because she was trembling , but the tension in her locked fingers only made her shake the more . |
| 5 | Being spurned by Malcolm McLaren only made him want the group more . |
| 6 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 7 | ‘ The effect of looking a bit deeper made more difference than anyone thought , ’ summarises Peter Frey , a psychologist at North-Western University who has written the basic text in the field , Chess Skill In Man and Machine ( Springer-Verlag 1977 ) . |
| 8 | The success of German industry in the west only made the people in the east more desperate and paranoid . |
| 9 | The handbrake was extensively used to cope with icy conditions on what seemed to be never-ending hairpins and headlights in the distance changing direction constantly made us wonder whether the word insanity had taken on a new meaning [ going up and down snowy mountains in a 30-year-old car ] . |
| 10 | If anything , years of experience only made you more aware of what could go wrong . |
| 11 | That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier . |
| 12 | Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier . |
| 13 | Upon conviction , she ( I use the pronoun ‘ she ’ for the sake of convenience here ) appealed on the ground that the statute expressly made the crime one which only a man could commit . |
| 14 | Ruth stood silent ; these urgent words only made the deadness inside her worse . |
| 15 | Fixed and inventory investment together made up almost 13% of TFE in 1991 . |
| 16 | Politeness alone made her go back to see the doctor , and listen to her almost stern advice . |
| 17 | Sandy lay still for a while , hoping to feel better ; but being flat on her back did n't help , and closing her eyes only made it worse . |
| 18 | Nevertheless its roots have evidently been shallower than in Northern Ireland , where the absence of comprehensive schools perhaps made it the more necessary . |
| 19 | That the Polish Jews were socially , politically and economically quite distinct from German Jews only made the business easier , since the two groups were at loggerheads with each other . |
| 20 | With its free power glove , the figure below made a sign as of a leaping spider . |
| 21 | Green eyes stared back at her from beneath dark slanting brows but with her short hair that accentuated her elfin face she somehow felt the swimsuit only made her slight figure look even more boyish . |
| 22 | The freshman soon made a name for himself in debates at the Union , which is the historic Cambridge debating society . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | It was many years since Selwyn 's wife had persuaded him that it was not good manners to pick his teeth in company , but his lips still made the motions of mouthing a toothpick . |
| 25 | The Duchess had sworn in a very mild tone , but her words still made Lord John bridle . |
| 26 | PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday made an impassioned call for a Marxist-Leninist single party state in Zimbabwe . |
| 27 | The tiff between John and Edward still made itself felt . |
| 28 | Mrs Parvis always made him agree with whatever she said . |
| 29 | The Sheikha usually made them for her . |
| 30 | one of wo one of the worst ones cars ever made I mean they do make rubbish , but that 's one of the worst ones ! |