Example sentences of "have made [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Once you have made yourself familiar with the basic sewing processes , you will then be able to cope with any of the projects in this book . |
2 | " Well , you do realise , Mr Grout , that by resigning you have made yourself ineligible for Unemployment Benefit for a period of — |
3 | You have made yourself |
4 | This is reflected in our admiration for people who have made something of their lives , sometimes against great odds , and in our somewhat disappointed judgment of those who merely drift through life . |
5 | Blank et al have pulled together all those niggling influences which previously were like a series of half-formed sentences and have made something coherent and splendid out of them . |
6 | In general , the rule with haggling is to do as the locals do , taking particular care not to beat down those who are selling items they have made themselves . |
7 | These two institutions have made themselves universally known as the automatic check-in points for people who like a bit of a show — canteens for gossip column readers in search of local colour . |
8 | Should Wasps ' Lozowski and Oti have made themselves only available for Poland ( or even Italy ) and Nigeria respectively and/or been barred from playing in League One ? |
9 | It may be a shrubbery with a well-trodden path that the children have made themselves or a hard-surfaced path winding between small trees . |
10 | Both Michael Lynagh and David Campese have made themselves available for the tournament . |
11 | Mr Moynihan indulges in nostalgia for departed days ; like Milton 's devils , he writes , men have made themselves smaller to enter new prison cells . |
12 | Some caterpillars have made themselves unpleasant to eat . |
13 | In a word , governments have made themselves unpopular with their manifold ‘ failures ’ , those failures are traceable to their basic failure to restructure the social relations of British capitalism , and yet there has been no social force with the ‘ will ’ and capacity to enforce any radical restructuring against the opposition which any such move must encounter . |
14 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |
15 | ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction . |
16 | She 's just so full of that middle class attitude that says , These people have made themselves unemployed , now they can get themselves out of it . |
17 | Since the Mexican panic they have made themselves less vulnerable through a variety of stratagems . |
18 | ‘ The Scottish lords have made themselves at home , ’ Agrippa muttered . |
19 | She 's just so full of that middle class attitude that says , These people have made themselves unemployed , now they can get themselves out of it . |
20 | Since then they have made themselves widely known from radio and television . |
21 | Jumping up they have made everyone else jump again . |
22 | The anti-smoking campaigns in the media in the last few years have made everyone aware of the risks we run if we continue to smoke . |
23 | By mixing Redgra with shale , Oxford 's neighbours Swindon have made theirs one of the best tracks in the country . |
24 | Once colleagues and still friends , their similar redbrick-professor-writer lifestyles and largely campus subject-matter have made them a joined personality . |
25 | Although in terms of quantity more pottery has survived , it is the combination of the quantity of coins together with the official inscriptions and designs they bear that have made them more precisely datable than any other common class of artefact . |
26 | In the real world , these results are neither as good for the Tories nor as bad for Labour as the polls and media predictions have made them seem . |
27 | The physical characteristics , which include slanted eyes , a short flat nose , a short neck , a fissured tongue and stubby hands , have made them instantly recognisable to the general public , where they are more commonly described as ‘ mongols ’ . |
28 | The haunting sound of the whistle echoing through mountains at night , the thundering plunge across the plains , the astonishing restraint of such powerful giants as they inch in and out of stations have made them the inspiration of poets , writers , composers and film makers . |
29 | Returning to our canine theme , dogs still carry with them the same instincts possessed by their wild ancestors , still remaining members of that same species — the wild wolf — even after so many generations of breeding have made them what must be the most diverse species upon Earth . |
30 | If his language and intellectual categories are less startlingly novel today , it is because he , and a few others like Tom Nairn , have made them familiar to us . |