Example sentences of "and their [noun] make [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old women of the town marvelled at a child whose intellect had been ‘ forced into almost an unnatural ripeness ’ , and their flattery made him vain : |
| 2 | The events at Stony Stratford clearly took the political community by surprise , and their reaction makes it likely that the seizure of the prince was a pre-emptive strike by Gloucester rather than ( as Mancini 's scenario would suggest ) a retaliation for his exclusion from power . |
| 3 | The events at Stony Stratford clearly took the political community by surprise , and their reaction makes it likely that the seizure of the prince was a pre-emptive strike by Gloucester rather than ( as Mancini 's scenario would suggest ) a retaliation for his exclusion from power . |
| 4 | Sometimes , when he thought he might die , as Eileen had died , some deep and insatiable curiosity about life and living in him , some craving to take with him a deeper knowledge of women and their essence made him long to lie in love with her , to taste the sweetness of her mystery , to see the world just once from a vantage point where the lost and lonely flesh that is man and woman comes together in a healing synthesis . |
| 5 | Their very weakness , their distance from practical affairs , and their isolation made them ever more extreme . |
| 6 | The cat has relatively large eyes , and their design makes them eight times more sensitive than our own , giving it superb nocturnal vision . |
| 7 | The van was crowded with men in damp overcoats , and their weight made it difficult to control over the hard bumpy ice . |