Example sentences of "make [pers pn] out [prep] " 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 | Yeah , the people , what did they make them out of ? |
| 3 | Noah 's Ark , that 's good , what do they do with the animals they ca n't make them out of |
| 4 | Do n't try and make me out to be some kind of embittered nut compensating for an unsatisfactory sex-life . ’ |
| 5 | But Susan hit back saying : ‘ She made me out to be some ditsy small-town mum who wanted to meet a star . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose he made me out to be some kind of thief ! |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose she made me out to be a right little idiot , ’ says Anya . |
| 8 | ‘ They made me out to be a hooligan , which I 'm not . ’ |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Yeah , good one Paul glass what else , what else they make them out of |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ He was n't as odd as you 'd made him out to be , your friend , ’ Gillian said as we left . |
| 14 | I 've just made it out to nobody at the moment . |
| 15 | And could be that other Blake-Dax goodies are on the way — though this one has n't made it out of rumoursville at present . |
| 16 | Mrs Bauwens claimed the story made her out to be a ‘ social leper ’ not fit to be seen with a Government Minister . |
| 17 | ‘ I never made her out to be the Lady of the Camellias , ’ protested Hilary . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I saw Toby Latimer myself ; I confess I ca n't make him out at all . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Martin Potter 's press photos made him out to be a cross between James Dean and Marlon Brando . |
| 22 | In a way , though , that limited him and made him out of touch with modern medicine . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A few mono copies of the album with the deleted cuts did make it out of the factory but no stereo version was believed to have been pressed until early this year , when the only known copy was advertised for auction by Strider Records of New York . |
| 25 | If you get your ass in gear , you can make it out of here tonight . ’ |
| 26 | It looked like some enormous battery-powered bug , and she had serious misgivings as to whether it would make it out of the garage , never mind to Nice . |
| 27 | What could we make it out of ? |
| 28 | Oh I think we will make it out of Soda Stream to begin with do you want to make a bottle Paul ? |
| 29 | The the point Peter er is making is do n't make it out to us because if you if you give me a cheque to Worsley I 've got to go to Peter 's house and and then get him to give me a cheque and then I 've got to go to either Kerry or Bob and get them |
| 30 | I du n no who you were gon na make it out to but make it out |