Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tommy , inset left , killed him when they thought he owned them £25 . |
| 2 | What made them lords were their noble deeds . |
| 3 | However , there was available to them an unlimited quantity of quality seasoned wood , excellent metals and fabrics , and sound examples of rare stone , all worked by men whose seven-year apprenticeships made them masters of their craft . |
| 4 | I liked the idea of other people feeling sorry for me , even though I also despised them for it , because I was n't worth their sympathy and that made them fools . |
| 5 | The terrace tiles were already warm under her bare feet ; the sunlight , when she looked towards it , stung her eyes and made them water . |
| 6 | ARSENAL boss George Graham last night blasted his multi-million pound stars for squandering the qualities which made them giants of English football . |
| 7 | The liberal ideas of this group , and the fact that several of its members were known or alleged to belong to the secretive Catholic brotherhood , Opus Dei , made them anathema to the " old shirt " Falangists and the Catholic integrists . |
| 8 | Had Andrewes remained in Cambridge , his reputation would probably have been unblemished but he would have lacked the stimulus to write the magnificent sermons which he preached at Court ; and he would not willingly have engaged in the controversial writing in which for the first time he set out the Anglican Church 's position in terms which European scholars could respect ; above all his Preces , even had they been written , would not have contained the breadth of experience , and the depth of feeling , based on that experience , which made them treasures of the Church . |
| 9 | You made them cakes that time did n't you ? |
| 10 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 11 | Constance spent hours drawing imaginary clothes for the mannequins and , encouraged by Miss Hatherby and her mother , made them dresses out of scraps of old material Miss Hatherby managed to find tucked away in the corners of Seaton Cramer Hall . |
| 12 | But stand-in skipper McAllister is confident that Leeds will bounce back in the style that made them champions last May . |
| 13 | Was there a secret reason that made them hanker for a new life in a new world ? |
| 14 | And precisely what distressed her about John 's outburst was that it once more put that distance between them ; it made them opposites sinner and sinned against , penitent and confessor , worm and angel . |
| 15 | The return to action of the highly regarded John Rae Collective should have launched the concert in style , but they were decidedly lacklustre after an extended layoff , and showed only occasional flashes of the energy and invention which made them Scotland 's best and most creative jazz outfit . |
| 16 | She bit her lip and kept her peace , and even made them cups of tea with the same grace that her mother had demonstrated in the dark hours of the night . |
| 17 | Frankie 's very success made them part of the pop family . |
| 18 | For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style . |
| 19 | With an effort , she made them part , and then her vocal cords let her down by refusing to work . |
| 20 | The fact that the local authority had the legal right to control the premises made them occupiers to the exclusion of the previous owners of the house . |
| 21 | What is beyond dispute is that the portfolio valuations benefited on two counts : firstly through translation of foreign share holdings into sterling at more advantageous rates , and secondly through the appreciation of the shares of those companies whose large overseas involvement made them beneficiaries of a lower pound . |
| 22 | And he sent for the Bishop of Valencia , and took their vows and made them plight themselves each to the other according as the law directs . |
| 23 | You made them Horlicks or Ovaltine or tea or coffee . |
| 24 | Some of them and they made them Leslie and Eric and James , Jimmy and Andrew and Jim and Georgie and Jim and them , they worked in the Wintertime you see and made the barrels . |
| 25 | Yeah but I made them non-copper so they would n't . |
| 26 | Made them watchers , not doers ; passive , not active . |
| 27 | And I made them jigs and whatnot. when they come to do it at Dolgarrog when they come to want them doing I said to the to the the chief engineer I said , he told me about they were going get these commutators done here machine . |
| 28 | It made them temptresses . |
| 29 | Further , the neat division of society into a minority of freeholders sharply contrasted with the mass of tenant farmers and landless men stops far short of the whole truth in its failure to acknowledge the interest of copyholders whose security of tenure made them freeholders in all but name , or to distinguish leaseholders with long terms from mere tenants at will . |
| 30 | Fru Gertlinger , the young wife of the gardener at the Villa , recently become housekeeper , made them picnic lunches and every day they rode out early to check their notes and make sure that they had missed nothing . |