Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] make [pn reflx] " in BNC.

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1 These were difficult times for the voices of pacifism to make themselves heard .
2 ‘ I would , therefore , like to appeal to householders who have suffered damage in the Oval and Trinity Avenue areas of Llandudno to make themselves available at their homes on Tuesday morning so that the Army can gain access and proceed without delay . ’
3 Gabriel , meanwhile , received his draft papers and begins to take large quantities of drugs to make himself medically unfit , until he verges on insanity .
4 At the other extreme he sometimes pushed his boys into bed with girls in order to make himself suffer , though a part of him may also have enjoyed the proximity or heterosexual life .
5 The priest avoids contact with sexuality and women in order to make himself holy and fit for handling the sacred .
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