Example sentences of "make [adj] they were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other cabinet members made sure they were in the same position . |
| 2 | In fact , he has continually made a point of recording that he was not a boy from the wrong side of the tracks , as some tried to indicate , but that his mother/grandmother made sure they were well provided for . |
| 3 | She made sure they were the best dressed , the cleanest , the brainiest . |
| 4 | He made sure they were both tucked in and went to the door . |
| 5 | He invited scores of congressmen and journalists , civic officials and academics to visit Iran and made sure they were lavishly received and entertained . |
| 6 | Instead of putting them in the Credit Card Centre 's outgoing mail — they were all addressed to ‘ problem ’ areas — Steve called in the Fraud Section who made sure they were sent registered mail in plain envelopes . |
| 7 | No I think they 'd got to a point where , you know , if you , if you were about erm , they made sure they were the first ones there like the and they , I think they more or less recognized by the merchants they , they were the boatmen . |
| 8 | I 'm not saying I would n't ever shoot vermin , though , but I 'd make sure they were dead . |
| 9 | Each one had its own iron fireplace and every week Endill would help his mother clean them , making sure they were free of mould and little insects . |
| 10 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
| 11 | Quite often police were at the stage door making sure they were out of the theatre at the regulation time . |
| 12 | He was making sure they were not exposed to any form of light source , however muted . |
| 13 | Now when he and Anne had people to stay they ran around after their guests making sure they were comfortable . |
| 14 | After making sure they were indeed the kidnappers , Waite was blindfolded . |
| 15 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't really read books , but I liked cataloguing them and arranging them and making sure they were well looked after and all that kind of thing . ’ |
| 17 | It was a case of asserting the rights of children while making sure they were less influenced by their parents . |
| 18 | He looked for the pole Star on nights so intensely black that you almost had to touch your limbs to make sure they were still there . |
| 19 | Early on , working in tandem with John Higgs , he had brought in the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group and the Nature Conservancy Council to look at all the farms on the estate to make sure they were farming with conservation in mind . |
| 20 | Her care of the pups was so haphazard that Buddie often fed them milk from a baby 's bottle to make sure they were getting enough nourishment . |
| 21 | As a child he played records to his parents from an adjacent room , darting between the two to make sure they were paying attention . |
| 22 | At a Local Government conference , someone at the venue had put up the mikes but had not checked to make sure they were fixed properly , so they were slowly drooping ! |
| 23 | Sam vowed silently to make sure they were fair shares . |
| 24 | Here the sales staff glided about with languid grace more reminiscent of Paris than New York , the house models managed to look like elegant advertisements for Varna even after a long session of standing stock still while a toile was pinned and draped and adjusted around them , and even when a rail of sample clothes had to be wheeled across the hallowed expanse of green , carefully hidden inside grey and black sample bags to make sure they were safe from the photographic eye of a fashion spy , it was managed with what Hugo referred to as ‘ panache ’ . |
| 25 | They consulted deaf women and their interpreters , and re-evaluated their work , to make sure they were getting it right . |
| 26 | He had tried the water taps to make sure they were n't frozen , unaware that the water he ran off was only that in the pipes . |
| 27 | She looked from one to the other to make sure they were at the same height . |
| 28 | He used to travel around all the other cells to make sure they were carrying out their objectives . ’ |
| 29 | To make sure they were all right to eat them |
| 30 | I always posted two sentries at night , more if the situation warranted it , and Omar or I checked at intervals to make sure they were awake . |