Example sentences of "[pron] make [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's much better to give them two and one and let them make four . |
| 2 | The guiding principle for the Government , she said , was that health care should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay : ‘ Let me make one thing absolutely clear . |
| 3 | ‘ Let me make one thing clear . |
| 4 | But Ferguson insisted : ‘ Let me make one thing crystal clear — Manchester United wo n't bottle it on the last lap of the championship . |
| 5 | ‘ I think I am being very reasonable , and let me make one thing quite clear . |
| 6 | But , in reply , let me make two fundamental points which , I think , make the original question far from otiose and the answer to it anything but platitudinous . |
| 7 | dir : Could I make one last suggestion ? |
| 8 | Can I make one more suggestion one , to combine two of these to call it Southwell Centenary Park , would that make it any better ? |
| 9 | May I make one or two observations and then I 'll finish . |
| 10 | May I make two points in reply to the hon. Gentleman ? |
| 11 | Be before we start can I make two quick announcements , one er I made at the last lecture , that is there is a public lecture given by Baroness at five fifteen today on the subject of the Soviet Union and wh where does it go , erm and that 's in . |
| 12 | Depressed people can of course make hasty and unwise decisions , and I made one such decision when , during my second term at Berkeley , I decided to give up my London flat . |
| 13 | ‘ I made one speech on the subject and I 've not referred to it since , and there seems no purpose in doing so . ’ |
| 14 | Again we had a double bed , and I made one or two tentative sexual advances , to no effect . |
| 15 | At tea I made one of the mistakes of my life . |
| 16 | I made one good decision : to wear the trainers on the plane , and carry the paperwork in my hand luggage . |
| 17 | I made one bad decision : to board the plane . |
| 18 | In the course of researching extra material for Pursuit in the Public Records Office I made one lucky and quite unexpected find . |
| 19 | At this time still a regular smoker , I made one film which made me drastically change my views about it . |
| 20 | " In the year 1889 " , he wrote forty years later , " I made one of the fatal mistakes of my life . |
| 21 | I made one stipulation only to the Foreign Secretary , Sir Alec Douglas-Home , which was that my driver should not be the same amiable young man who had led me such a dance around Johannesburg . |
| 22 | I made one stupid mistake in one of my books , about a car , and I got about 25 letters . |
| 23 | And er I made one or two political points as you can imagine with doctors who are allegedly nonpolitical and do n't want to get involved in all this messy er things about Conservative Party and Labour Party and the rest of it . |
| 24 | I am sorry , I forgot that I made one more telephone call — to Mr. Sellars , the Lothian region 's further education expert . |
| 25 | Well yes , I mean th this is certainly the was born in fact I , I commented on this in my in my book when I was talking about this book before group psychology I I made one or two erm fairly erm critical comments about , about group , group , group psychotherapy . |
| 26 | I MADE one of my rare visits to town this week and I wish I had not . |
| 27 | I made two ruler from Tufnol ( 24x1–1/2x1/2in ) , then joined them with two brass strips , allowing about 1 in of play between the rulers . |
| 28 | I made two attempts but they both failed , each time my fear of water proved too much . |
| 29 | I made two more visits to Knowlton , and it has now become a focus for my own particular pilgrimage . |
| 30 | E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns . |