Example sentences of "make [pron] out to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no famine and for most urban residents conditions of life improved during the 1920s — 1930s , but cities were by no means the havens of wealth and prosperity that hostile or covetous agricultural ideologues made them out to be . |
| 2 | Do n't try and make me out to be some kind of embittered nut compensating for an unsatisfactory sex-life . ’ |
| 3 | But Susan hit back saying : ‘ She made me out to be some ditsy small-town mum who wanted to meet a star . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose he made me out to be some kind of thief ! |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose she made me out to be a right little idiot , ’ says Anya . |
| 6 | ‘ They made me out to be a hooligan , which I 'm not . ’ |
| 7 | er , when you know you go home and lying on the doormat on the Friday night is a great tome of paper that came second post which made me out to be the biggest idiot philanderer , thief , cheat and liar in the world |
| 8 | He could make himself out to be the apostle of order in Europe , but he had to devote far more his attention to order at home . |
| 9 | He told me this foolish theory many times , but really he was just telling it to himself : the less of a woman be made me out to be , the less of a lover he would need to be . |
| 10 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 11 | ‘ He was n't as odd as you 'd made him out to be , your friend , ’ Gillian said as we left . |
| 12 | Mrs Bauwens claimed the story made her out to be a ‘ social leper ’ not fit to be seen with a Government Minister . |
| 13 | ‘ I never made her out to be the Lady of the Camellias , ’ protested Hilary . |
| 14 | You can see it 's , it 's quite short actually , and I do n't , I mean , she was n't that small , because you can tell by the , the rest of the , the size of the bodice and the length of the arms that she was n't as small as this dress would make her out to be . |
| 15 | Edward was glad to escape from Shelgate Road : his father seemed to undermine his self-confidence and made him out to be ‘ several kinds of fool ’ . |
| 16 | Martin Potter 's press photos made him out to be a cross between James Dean and Marlon Brando . |
| 17 | Because Boo is locked away , it makes his character very mysterious and at first it 's hard to know if the rumours spread around about Boo only coming out at night to hunt for his dinner , eating squirrels and peering in through people 's windows are true , but gradually as we read more into the book , we are given clues to suggest that he is not the monster , people make him out to be . |
| 18 | The Gainsborough films that best characterize the desire of filmmakers to close their eyes to the darker currents in society , to make believe that the world really is as cosy as some wartime films made it out to be , are Holiday Camp ( 1947 ) and the three sequels set amongst the jolly Huggett family . |
| 19 | Rats , this heroine business was n't the cool breeze Vanessa Vail made it out to be . |
| 20 | He argues that job evaluation is not the dire threat some make it out to be — simply because it may not catch on . |
| 21 | In some ways it 's a simpler game than we make it out to be . ’ |
| 22 | Examples from our corpus confirm these observations but show that the line between mediate and immediate assistance is not always as easy to draw as Erades and Wood make it out to be . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're not making me out to be a liar . ’ |
| 24 | He 's making me out to be some sort of thick , brainless loony on a self-destruct road to ruin . |
| 25 | making me out to be a lying bitch . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're making her out to be a bit heartless , ’ Harry protested awkwardly . |
| 27 | He was making her out to be a two-faced liar . |
| 28 | Yes , but it 's not so male orien orientated now as you 're making it out to be . |
| 29 | This , in itself , is scarcely the disaster that Serbian nationalist propaganda makes it out to be . |
| 30 | Moving to Microsoft Corp Windows NT technology may not be as traumatic as everyone makes it out to be , says ComputerWorld . |