Example sentences of "she [verb] make " in BNC.

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1 I was going good grief , she goes make her sick if it kills me .
2 Waitress Calderwood , from Gosforth , was ordered to carry out 120 hours community service by Newcastle magistrates after she admitted making the hoax call .
3 Even Prince Charles , whom she expected to make inquiries , did not .
4 I mean — , She fought to make excitement sound like disappointment .
5 By her coarseness she sought to make things easier for him — she committed herself to the relationship , to this way of life , which , God knew , was n't much fun for her .
6 But still less did she want to make a scene or create any kind of curiosity amongst the people she had just left , so she allowed him to lead her from the room , saying , ‘ Yes , we needed to discuss those — er — charts , did n't we , Dr Russell ? ’ in case anyone was still listening .
7 Hard bargains were being driven before she agreed to make her Hollywood debut and she was already planning to take control by producing — and maybe directing — her own movies .
8 She bent to make sure .
9 I 've got a friend who is a punk ; her make-up takes her ages , but she wants to make a statement , to be noticed .
10 She wants to make me colour co-ordinated .
11 If she 's crying for some other reason like because we 've been quarrelling and she wants to make up but does n't know how to I just put my arms round her and cuddle her and let her cry it out .
12 She says she wants to make a statement . ’
13 It 's not that she wants to make you feel cheap .
14 She wants to make you feel the cheapest ever Spryly She-She left the room .
15 Anyway , like I said , she wants to make you some food , man .
16 Much of the time the narrative is weighed down by the Boehemer 's perceived seriousness of the subject matter — politics , race and violence in South Africa give new meaning to the phrase ‘ well-worn themes ’ — so that the characters are simply vehicles for the points she wants to make .
17 The word ‘ consanguinity ’ is too cold — because it fits the metre so well , it implies she has carefully considered the impression she wants to make .
18 But now she wants to make sure that all windows are fitted with locks so that other children do n't suffer the same fate .
19 Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh .
20 Must you , she wants to make sure I 've got a constant supply I have Sadie to thank for that .
21 Well mummy wants daddy when she wants to make the , the biscuit , let's look gingerbread family , oh yes
22 But it 's really hard , she does , she wants to make friends but well like she keeps bloody well coming to sit table Trina
23 ACTRESS Laura Petty who co-stars with Geena Davies and Madonna in A League Of Their Own is left heartbroken when she finishes making movies … because she keeps falling in love with her leading men .
24 With a regretful look at her glass , and a warning glance at Lord Beddington should he tamper with its contents while she was gone — she had observed his hand stealing towards it already — she rose to make her way upstairs to the ladies ' retiring room .
25 But he looked so hurt that she tried to make a joke of it ,
26 She tried to make her brain tell her , but it lay frozen in her skull like a woolly mammoth deep in a glacier .
27 She tried to make out an expression on his creased face .
28 She tried to make Martha speak high English at home as if she were still in school , but the old woman often lapsed into patois herself .
29 No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ?
30 In a ghost story she wrote : ‘ Night after night for weeks she tried to make him come … ’
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