Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] made [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In only his third full senior game , he produced a creative , mature performance that was too much for Liverpool at Anfield — where Parlour made his League debut last January and gave away a penalty . |
| 2 | With the series won , Australia included two new caps , the omission of local favourite Geoff Marsh after 50 Tests causing ripples , in the media and the Australian dressing-room , where Border made his displeasure at the loss of his vice-captain known to the selectors . |
| 3 | Dotty was n't there to cosset him , and presently he went upstairs to the wardrobe , where Prue made him a cup of tea . |
| 4 | But seeing Damien made her lose concentration and before she knew what was happening she found herself boxed in yet again . |
| 5 | Let down , their elation leaking away , they had decided to give up , and taken a taxi back to Alice 's mother 's house , where Alice made them both coffee and scrambled eggs . |
| 6 | Above all , this is a less regimented show than Noelte made it ; the chorus work is scrappy , and sometimes looks under-rehearsed , with much School-of-Sadlers-Wells handshaking and glass-waving . |
| 7 | ‘ Once Stalin made me dance the Gopak , squat down on my haunches and kick out my heels , ’ writes Khrushchev , an image hard to call up in view of his shape , but — ‘ When Stalin says ‘ Dance ’ , a wise man dances , ’ added the peasant proverb-spinner in his accustomed vein . |
| 8 | Another problem was his feathers : he was n't growing down quickly enough and he was always shivering , so Maureen made him a little coat out of cotton wool . |
| 9 | Although Anselm made it clear that he personally was bound to observe the papal decrees of 1099 until released by proper authority , he remained neutral in all the negotiations between the king and pope . |
| 10 | Cos mum made me laugh tonight but she came in and she said oh you can have a hot cross bun there , I said well I think I 'll have a piece of chocolate cake and she said alright then ! |
| 11 | The thought riled her , causing a rising anger which interfered with her work until voices made her aware that Silas and Doreen were standing beside the reception desk . |
| 12 | This one was the grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson , who was himself intended to be a lighthouse engineer like his grandfather , his father and his uncle , until circumstances made him an author instead . ) |
| 13 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 14 | If God made us for himself , as Augustine recognized at the beginning of his Confessions , then we will always be restless until we orient our lives towards God and rest in him alone . |
| 15 | She walked clumsily , not sure where to put her hands , as if movement made her more naked than before . |
| 16 | And in fact they never made it to the man 's house in the country that night , because Boy made him stop the car twice more . |
| 17 | We had assumed that their affair would in some way be a violent one , because O was known to be violent , and because Boy made you feel strange when he gave himself away to you , a strangeness , and a feeling that you always wanted more , that often came out as violence . |
| 18 | " You 're tired , " she said , and added that there was no point in gloom because gloom made everything worse . |
| 19 | It 's 30 years since Connery made his debut as the renegade secret serviceman in Dr No . |
| 20 | It is 45 years since Cheltenham made it this far , nearly 60 since their one and only appearance in the third round . |
| 21 | Stein had then navigated the dinghy 60 miles across the north sea to Felixtowe , while Woolf made his way back to Britain by ferry . |
| 22 | Sixty years after Schoenberg was making those remarks and nearly twenty years since Karajan made his recording of the Op. 31 Variations , it is still possible to meet the argument that the gramophone can never be a substitute for the sound of ‘ the real thing ’ in the concert-hall . |
| 23 | Comedian Michael Bentine recounted that he had asked a sensitive why some parts of the chalk countryside around Folkestone , where he lived , gave him a great feeling of security and peace while others made him feel uncomfortable and nervous . |
| 24 | They had made sure of the few proprietors between there and Dunkeld ; the Duke of Atholl 's authority was weaker here ; tomorrow would be the hard day when they made a drive up to Moulin and Faskally : perhaps they should go and terrify them now while darkness made them lonely ? |
| 25 | McVeighty gambled on going the complete four laps on one tankful of petrol , while Bell made one pit stop . |
| 26 | He seemed to remember something about her , something which took him back into a happy past , before decision made his life difficult . |
| 27 | I had another coffee ; I was confused , irritable and dizzy as I stood by the buffet and watched the station cleaners , suddenly desperate to be on my way before tiredness made me change my mind . |
| 28 | Within the two weeks confidently predicted by Havelock Wilson company after company and local shipowner association after association made its peace with advances in wages and on 28 June some 100 shipowners met in London and decided , among other things , on the standardisation of the local rates which were accepted over the next few days . |
| 29 | The dynamic Mike Marsh blasted a searing 30-yard drive past Nigel Martyn before McManaman made it three by capitalising on a slip by the Palace keeper . |
| 30 | Heavy trading in New York before Brazil made its announcement smelt like insider trading . |