Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] make the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His new house , built of hammer dressed limestone , with Westmorland slates for the roof , abutted on to the remains of the original house which he made into a service wing , and on the south side he made the grand entrance .
2 " Only the Commander was upset with nerves on account of a remark I made the other night .
3 It may be comforting if you can acknowledge that in any moment you make the best choices you are able to in the situations in which you find yourself .
4 He said ’ I believe at the end of the day I made the wrong decision ’ .
5 In mid-August I made the great mistake of seeking a four-day break from London to stay with friends in France .
6 In this paper they made the remarkable prediction that radiation ( in the form of photons ) from the very hot early stages of the universe should still be around today , but with its temperature reduced to only a few degrees above absolute zero ( - 2730 ° C ) .
7 With hindsight in Andrew Hagans case they made the wrong decision .
8 As a consequence of this approach it makes the whole process accessible , meaningful and feasible .
9 In turn he made the polite mistake of asking her what she believed socially and politically .
10 Chairman it makes the whole thing far simpler I think because there is n't really no disagreement about this whatsoever .
11 In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely .
12 there you go I 've made half the effort you make the other half
13 Stephen said this very seriously but for some reason it made the wedge-faced sergeant guffaw .
14 Well , so we do , about Handel and the way he makes the best effect ( at least on us ) ; but a different kind of historical awareness is needed here , one that puts us into the frame of mind of late eighteenth-century Vienna and its perception of Handel .
15 To all complaints about his conduct he made the same answer : he was bound by the decree of 1099 , which obliged him to withdraw from the communion of all who had taken part in ceremonies of investiture or homage .
16 On his return to London he makes the following comment on the period 8 to 14 November , presumably spent with Helen Noble : ‘ The holiest and best of pleasures .
17 A simple round neck style with wrist length sleeves it makes the perfect foil for a favourite scarf or piece of jewellery .
18 Conversely , by painting your house you make the whole street look nicer and give consumption benefits to your neighbours .
19 That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology .
20 The model is not a faithful copy of the real thing but because of its simplification it makes the real thing easier to study and learn .
21 Over time it makes the domestic industry less competitive .
22 Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry .
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