Example sentences of "make a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , you 're , you 're made a laugh of are n't you ? |
| 2 | So there was a further delay in operations until February this year , when the single made yet another appearance and ultimately made a reacquaintance with the UK Top Ten , sparking off talks of that Madness reunion . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , Pip , dear boy , I 've made a gentleman of you ! |
| 4 | The danger is if Mr X had entered into that transaction partly with a view to avoiding tax then the entire gross income without any deduction for trustee expenses and indeed ( in strictness ) for the payments of interest under the loan will be taxed upon Mr X. He would have made a transfer of an asset . |
| 5 | He has n't made a semblance of a mistake . |
| 6 | As well as his chemical discoveries he had made a reputation for himself from his electrical investigations . |
| 7 | The campus was fenny-flat , laid out like a kind of chess-board , redeemed by an imaginative water-gardener who had made a maze of channels and pools , randomly flowing across and around the rectangular grid . |
| 8 | By the following morning my father and the doctor had made a plan for his escape . |
| 9 | ( His fecklessness was on an appealingly grand scale : when he was made a yeoman of the guard , responsible for fire-fighting equipment , his negligence permitted the fire which burnt down the Houses of Parliament ) . |
| 10 | Women of that age , she 'd read somewhere , often made a push for one final fling . |
| 11 | I know that I 'm being unfair to you and to Virginia , but what I feel for you — what I have always felt for you — has made a weakling of me . " |
| 12 | The adult has made a change to the array — introduced garages irrelevant to the number of cars . |
| 13 | SPEAKER of the House of Commons , Betty Boothroyd , has yet again made a change in the running of Westminster , by ensuring that menus for her official dinners are written in English instead of French , the traditional language of banquets . |
| 14 | Silver Reed knitters will find we 've made a change in their favourite feature . |
| 15 | She had made a change in her life , broken away from her mother . |
| 16 | In all four schools , participation in the project had made a range of departments and a number of individual teachers look closely at their existing library resources for the purposes of stock editing and selection . |
| 17 | The Times caressed us with recondite information : no Pakistani batsman had made a century at Headingley ; Pakistan bowled their 100th no-ball in the series ( Wasim Akram , not out 63 ) . |
| 18 | It noted that Ealing Council , which , like Hounslow , is Labour-controlled , had made a grant of £50,000 , and listed a number of events : ‘ April 1986 , organised a meeting at Southall Town Hall on the seventh anniversary of Blair Peach 's death , called for full inquiry … |
| 19 | So many people have benefited from its help that this year the parish council have made a grant of nearly £2,000 to see that its work continues in the village . |
| 20 | 7–10–1874 The trustees of the late James Bannatyne had made a grant of £100 to assist in employing a Catechist and the money was lodged with the Greenock Board of Police at 4% interest , to be drawn as required . |
| 21 | He had stood for them all , when he was made a hero of the Soviet Union by Stalin himself . |
| 22 | This means that the seller has made a return of 50 per cent on his initial investment of 200 in just five days while the buyer has lost 50 per cent of his initial investment . |
| 23 | As a boy Waugh had longed to go to Eton , which might have made a radical of him and where he might have met Orwell , and did not ; his first aristocratic wife left him after a year , and for an Etonian ; and his sojourns in a great Elizabethan house in Worcestershire as a young man , the guest of a friend , allowed him to glimpse a world of moats , battlements and rolling parkland from which in spirit he never awoke . |
| 24 | In recent years this has been more widely recognized and both doctors and nurses have increasingly made a specialty of the care of the aged . |
| 25 | The solution is not to abolish honorary degrees for this would remove the one means in the gift of the University of recognising a debt to a person who has made a contribution of time and service to the well being of the University . |
| 26 | In addition to the oratory provided by Havelock Wilson , the NAS&FU also made a contribution of £pound100 to strike funds and encouraged various branches of the Seamen 's Union throughout Australia to donate over £pound1,000 . |
| 27 | Every one of you has made a contribution to the character of this institution and I take pleasure in acknowledging what each of you has done to make this such a satisfying academic and social environment . |
| 28 | ( The adult readers might like to list those books , and other reading matter , for which they have a particular affection or which they feel have made a contribution to their lives , and then check to see how many of them would be considered to be of the highest literary worth . ) |
| 29 | The provision of a cycle track system in some towns also made a contribution to safety ’ |
| 30 | Brass plaques , which will cost £100 , are being offered corporately , to individuals , and the families of players who have made a contribution to the fascinating Lisburn story . |