Example sentences of "make [noun] [adv] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Recent lack of success on the track made sponsorship hard to get and led to financial problems .
2 In setting himself such a standard , Herbert sought to fulfil the ambition expressed when he was ordained : ‘ Though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued and the sacred name of priest contemptible ; yet I will labour to make it honourable , by consecrating all my learning and all my poor abilities to advance the glory of God that gave them . ’
3 They swam like long rubbery strip-lights through the water 's gentle currents , and kept the rooms , corridors and towers of the castle bathed in a silky , pervasive light which sometimes made distances hard to measure and gave the air a thick sort of look .
4 He said you 're making appointment still to go and talk about advertising .
5 The clean channel with a goodly amount of reverb , and the chorus rate and depth set about halfway makes chords really shimmer and finger-picking come alive .
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