Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We took two hunks and , with the help of a carefully selected team of experts , made them even hunkier ! |
| 2 | The affluence made them exceptionally important and they were not slow to demand the ‘ communal ’ rights held by other important medieval centres , many of whom gained privileges similar to those of London . |
| 3 | They had high opinions of their value on stage , which made them rather undisciplined . |
| 4 | After this he made them both some cocoa and began the first of the Just So stories . |
| 5 | Size , colour and perfection of form help to influence the value attached to pearls , but it was their ‘ orient ’ which made them outstandingly attractive to men of many civilizations . |
| 6 | The vile weather had emptied the streets , and made them particularly frightening ; She tried to forget her fears of the unknown in hearty cursing of the rain . |
| 7 | Having supplied them with a fifth chair , Amiss made them generally comfortable and vanished noiselessly through the nearest door . |
| 8 | The German Spandaus with their very fast bursts made them easily distinguishable from the British automatic weapons . |
| 9 | The evidence they read and heard made them strongly critical of the way in which local authorities and health services failed to carry out their important responsibilities in this respect . |
| 10 | But Hester made them reasonably welcome . |
| 11 | Keith was with him through all of it and I think it made them very close , ’ adds Rigby . |
| 12 | In an era when the average gross weekly wage was about £10 this made them very expensive props indeed . |
| 13 | The houses , scattered in the countryside , looked enormous , like fortresses , with large barns and farmyards attached to them , and all the buildings were an ochre colour which made them very beautiful in the evening sunshine . |
| 14 | Some children had last-minute treats of ice cream and sweets which made them very sick . |
| 15 | Naturally , this did n't affect her competence to teach at the University of Oxford , because until quite recently the place preferred to treat modern languages as if they were dead : this made them more respectable , more like the distant perfections of Latin and Greek . |
| 16 | Their small number , however , made them more noticeable . |
| 17 | This addition to the maps made them more useful , especially for agricultural purposes , but it entailed resurveying ground already covered and slowed the progress of subsequent work . |
| 18 | The growth in world trade led to the development of multinational corporations and banks whose increased scope of operation made them more concerned with the placement of funds in a wide range of currencies . |
| 19 | It is not clear whether this reduced their disadvantages or simply made them more alarming to the British . |
| 20 | The pages of unfilled job advertisements for psychogeriatricians in the British Medical Journal testifies to this , as does the increasing practice of splitting these posts into two areas of responsibility — part-time psychogeriatrics and part-time work with younger people — in order to made them more attractive . |
| 21 | In Britain booming domestic sales of videocassette machines have brought the prices down and made them more attractive to institutions . |
| 22 | He believed strongly in the psychology of home territory , which invariably put witnesses at their ease and made them more likely to remember little details they might otherwise forget or overlook in strange or foreign surroundings . |
| 23 | Norwich reformers agreed , claiming that amelioration properly carried through made them more long-suffering . |
| 24 | Erm , so Jan had these butties , she said oh I made them lovingly last night , tuna , mayonnaise and onion and er she said trust Viv to ring today like when I 'd made these butties ! |
| 25 | The reduction of bone in their bodies doubtless made them considerably lighter , size for size , than their ancestors . |
| 26 | In practice , the ambiguities of class blurred the theory ; rich Kenyans had privileges that made them virtually equal to the British , and a large number of the British — including the instruments of power , the soldiers — were not accepted as equals by the Establishment . |
| 27 | The packaging of the goods then , as now , made them almost impossible for customers with stiff fingers to open . |
| 28 | Mannitol in the water lowered both osmotic and water potential , and made them almost equal , which is why the leaves adopted the form seen in air . |
| 29 | A gentle step into a short sling and then the real miracle , a tiny hole , just right for my ancient ladle handle , revived from the days when Drummond briefly made them almost respectable . |
| 30 | The film of steam combined with the patina of dirt on the glass made them almost opaque . |