Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew bought young horses and made them well , Nicandra showed them to their best advantage , she had become a beautiful horsewoman . |
| 2 | The back light from the day 's end made them even more dramatic and the sea was on fire . |
| 3 | We took two hunks and , with the help of a carefully selected team of experts , made them even hunkier ! |
| 4 | The Stanleys were careful to place themselves at the head of local opinion rather than ride the county roughshod and their identity of opinion with local Unionists on political and religious matters made them even more powerful . |
| 5 | The imperial constitution and the prevailing political temper of the country made them even less effective than in Britain or France ; but the Daily Telegraph incident of 1908 and its effect in undermining the authority of William II helped to intensify them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 8 | They had high opinions of their value on stage , which made them rather undisciplined . |
| 9 | She went straight into the kitchen , and automatically made them both a cup of coffee , a mutual family ritual when one of them went out to a meeting . |
| 10 | After this he made them both some cocoa and began the first of the Just So stories . |
| 11 | A deep , shockingly familiar voice made them both turn and look towards the door . |
| 12 | Those who could n't read the words made them up , and Tich , who 'd lost his glasses , settled for singing ‘ Widecombe Fair ’ instead , coughing , spluttering and relishing his last night out . |
| 13 | They were supervised by a Miss Walker who , although she could not dance , also watched over their dances and made them up every night . |
| 14 | The police did not have reasons to arrest people , they made them up . |
| 15 | Most patients reacted to injections of a number of substances and he made them up custom made ‘ vaccines ’ of supposed antidotes . |
| 16 | I made them up just in the spur of the moment . |
| 17 | If the police think we made them up , they 'll think the same about the tapes , maybe about the kidnap itself . ’ |
| 18 | This enforced poverty made them easier targets for propaganda : if they left with no more than their allowance , they could be portrayed as shabby Untermenschen scuttling away like rats ; if they managed to outwit the system , then they were economic criminals fleeing with stolen goods . |
| 19 | But it feels that the modern men have expanded comics , made them somehow more artistic . |
| 20 | Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack . |
| 21 | Even buildings whose shorter periodicity put them out of the vulnerable category suffered ; the lengthy shaking made them progressively less brittle , in effect lengthening their period until they vibrated in resonance with the quake , at which point many began to collapse . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Having supplied them with a fifth chair , Amiss made them generally comfortable and vanished noiselessly through the nearest door . |
| 25 | The German Spandaus with their very fast bursts made them easily distinguishable from the British automatic weapons . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But Hester made them reasonably welcome . |
| 28 | The personal qualities of the Masai made them not only attractive to the British but ‘ attractive … to administer ’ . |
| 29 | Keith was with him through all of it and I think it made them very close , ’ adds Rigby . |
| 30 | Some children had last-minute treats of ice cream and sweets which made them very sick . |