Example sentences of "[vb past] make [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anti-Semitism that he there encountered made him more conscious of the Jewishness that had not been particularly important to him before . |
| 2 | I , I , actually heard that the R S two thousand were , were quite reliable out of most of the sports car , but they did , did have to buy a they were quite expensive , same as top of the range car and their , their top of the range of car was parts of them , especially if they , they , they stopped making them in |
| 3 | I tried to make him as comfortable as possible and with the assistance of a French Commando placed a shell dressing into the large wound in his back . |
| 4 | So , I tried to make it up to her in every way I could — though it was n't easy — she went on hating me for years . ’ |
| 5 | He changed history , he tried to make it right . |
| 6 | I just tried to make it really versatile . ’ |
| 7 | The conversation was destined to be elliptical , the chief inspector concluded , however hard she tried to make it more direct , and decided to make her questions more oblique . |
| 8 | You knew from the beginning the terms of the thing , and if you tried to make it more serious than that , you only lost him the quicker . |
| 9 | Throughout his period in office , de Gaulle stuck to this line ( and to the principle of a decentralized Germany ) , although he tried to make it more palatable by recasting it in terms of Germany 's integration within a larger West European bloc . |
| 10 | She tried to make it out . |
| 11 | Judith was well aware of the economics involved in the provision of kosher meat for Cork 's forty or so Jewish families , but it was worth submitting to a lecture on it from her mother if it helped to make her more amenable . |
| 12 | ‘ He was n't as odd as you 'd made him out to be , your friend , ’ Gillian said as we left . |
| 13 | By holding back , pretending concern , he 'd made her practically throw herself at him . |
| 14 | ‘ Pa , if only I 'd made it up with you , ’ she cried . |
| 15 | ‘ So would I tell you if I 'd made it up ? ’ he said . |
| 16 | He 'd made it abundantly clear that Hari was of no account in the community , that she could not be trusted to carry any weight with lawyers and the like . |
| 17 | He 'd made it very clear any relationship between them was over . |
| 18 | It took her a week to make , that dress , she 'd made it specially for the dance at the police cadets ’ college , and then she 'd been so shy she 'd spent most of the evening in the Ladies . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't think for one minute that he 'd made it there under his own steam , ’ Simone murmured , and André laughed smugly . |
| 20 | Former Cavern DJ Bob Wooler recalls : ‘ The Dennisons were one of the groups who deserved to make it really big . |
| 21 | In my own relatively trivial example what struck me forcefully was the assumption that being born in Canada seemed to make me more ‘ one of us ’ in the Immigration Officer 's eyes than ‘ one of them ’ , despite the fact that , within terms of the European Community , being Irish should make me far more of an insider . |
| 22 | Somehow these hints of vulnerability seemed to make her more attractive still , more likely to accept and understand the needs and fallibilities of others . |
| 23 | You see , one thing that influenced me was reading about the great American champs and I saw how all the good champs were side-tracked , avoided , yet always seemed to make it late . |
| 24 | Then there was William Henry 's wife Mary , and his niece , Mary Hannah , who unfortunately lost both parents when she was young and came to make her home with them . |
| 25 | What happened to make you so late back ? |
| 26 | The evidence they read and heard made them strongly critical of the way in which local authorities and health services failed to carry out their important responsibilities in this respect . |
| 27 | The endearments and other noises which followed made it quite clear that Yorick and Cyril were exploring to the full the dramatic possibilities of a reconciliation scene . |
| 28 | Likewise , Newton 's ‘ established ’ groups built up a ‘ close set ’ of relationships with public officials in Birmingham ( 1976 , p. 85 ) , while his poorly established groups found it difficult to gain access to decision-makers and thereby had to resort to demonstrations , petitions and so on which only served to make them even more unacceptable . |
| 29 | It was when Izzie began to make him up a mattress to sleep on that he said , ‘ Well , just tonight . |
| 30 | Mark and I have just been for a walk beyond Dalseattie , which was nice until the mist came down and began to make us rather damp . |