Example sentences of "[noun] made it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 2 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 3 | Swindon made it count too . |
| 4 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 5 | The markings about its eyes made it savage , wolf-like , but it was only a fox , more discomposed than she at the meeting . |
| 6 | Except that her figure made it look good anyway . |
| 7 | The snail 's pace of the boat made it seem like an endless expedition into the interior . |
| 8 | It was a standard opening — the kind of play that made no real difference to the final outcome — yet somehow the boy made it seem a challenge . |
| 9 | The living-room was no more than fifteen feet square ; but pale colours and a huge window made it seem larger . |
| 10 | The sun made it warm enough to sit outside and , although swimming in the pool was out of the question so early in the year , Jenna managed to get an even golden tan . |
| 11 | An early goal by the visitors made it look as though we were heading for our nineteenth League defeat of the season , but thanks to my inspirational coaching from the touchline , new boy Kev Knowles levelled the score on the stroke of half-time . |
| 12 | Often the tensions made it appear as though there was a ring of invisible men sitting outside the circle of women , a silent audience whose approval we often still needed . |
| 13 | Mrs Geary made it sound a quite unorthodox request . |
| 14 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 15 | This loss of influence made it fear the nationalists more . |
| 16 | A tall chimney above the heating plant and workshops made it look rather like a factory under guard . |
| 17 | He anticipated and insured himself for the re-emergence of Richard Nixon from the political wilderness in 1968 , and correctly judged that Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter in 1980 ( which was not such an inevitable result as the next eight years made it seem ) . |
| 18 | Another director made it sound like a Faustian pact with the devil : ‘ You have to be careful not to lose your soul ’ , he whispered . |
| 19 | Perhaps it would be truer to say that other things that I was doing made it seem less important . |
| 20 | When sitting astride a conveyance that prefers hay to unleaded , you should remember that John Wayne made it look a lot easier than it is . |
| 21 | She told the council 's cemeteries and crematorium consultative committee she was a regular visitor and the items being placed in the chapel of remembrance made it look like a shop display . |
| 22 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 23 | Supply problems during the war made it seem madness to postpone further the steps necessary to improve communications and construct strategic railways . |
| 24 | The severe straits in which the Treasury found itself after the Crimean War made it seem quite impractical to seek a solution which involved increasing the duties of officialdom . |
| 25 | Images of food drew it onwards to the tall , detached house at the end of the street ; thoughts of petting and cuddling from its playful , pleasant owners made it scamper through the shadows . |
| 26 | You could see that the pain of standing was more than it could bear , and it struggled to be allowed to collapse again but the owners made it walk : led it away stumbling on three legs with the fourth jutting out sideways . |
| 27 | Not least , the absence of any serious rationing of consumer goods , and the large number of exemptions from military service for skilled workers and farmers made it appear that the regime was well in control of developments , did not fear a war on the 1914–18 scale , and was even rather generous in its provisioning arrangements . |
| 28 | For though the boat 's interior was a masterpiece of functional yet elegant design which created an impression of light , airy spaciousness , the very presence of Nathan Bryce made it feel cramped and claustrophobic . |
| 29 | But as soon as the fact came to light , Lord 's agent Giles Gordon made it known to all the nine publishers to whom an outline had been submitted , some of whom did consequently withdraw bids . |
| 30 | Gina 's Italian and French ancestry made it come more naturally . |