Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] make a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To select the preferred party we will need final offer prices , terms and conditions which will mean having to provide the short listed parties with the further information necessary for them to make a firm offer . |
| 2 | Leeds eventually managed to score in the 85th minute , when Cantona pounced on a Lee Chapman nod-down , but by then it was far too late for them to make a miraculous recovery . |
| 3 | After the miscarriage Dr Rollerson , Maud 's father , had insisted on paying for them to make an extended tour of Europe , so that Maud could regain her health , and James 's dream of a permanent post at St Bartholomew 's Hospital was indefinitely postponed . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was this , the fact that she now had someone else to love her , that made it possible for me to make a proper apology , to stutter out confusedly , red-faced , that I was sorry about what had happened . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's difficult for me to make an honest judgement because … |
| 6 | No doubt the whole neighbourhood 's waiting for me to make an honest woman of you . " |
| 7 | The two of them make a right pair , sending messages , leaving notes you look at this , now ! ’ |
| 8 | After a few half-hearted sips , one of them made a great show of looking at his watch , and put his glass down . |
| 9 | Foreigners always find that a difficult process — in fact only one of them made a real success of it — and Disraeli possessed what Ezra had been denied — the elasticity and toughness of a good Jew . |
| 10 | The Minster had the gruffest basso but the others were undeterred and the whole tribe of them made a tremendous clangour . |
| 11 | None of them made a special selection of materials suitable for the peasantry , so the few books that were dispatched were often too dry or too expensive . |
| 12 | Two senior research officers at the Home Office were also invited , and one of them made an excellent contribution . |
| 13 | ‘ You can not go out at night without one of them making an obscene remark or getting his tackle out . |
| 14 | Why not use some of them to make a lovely flower arrangement . |
| 15 | There was no doubting that this young relative of his made a fine figure of a man , he thought , as he announced that he was going upstairs to change for dinner . |
| 16 | Some of us made a final effort and formed Feminist Audio Books — a library exclusively providing audiotapes of feminist writing for blind and partially-sighted women and women with reading difficulties . |
| 17 | Your employer might be willing to purchase an annuity for you to make a one-off lump sum in commutation of your pension rights . |
| 18 | If you are receiving Housing Benefit help with your rent at the moment there is no need for you to make a further claim for help with the Poll Tax . |
| 19 | ‘ Without intimate knowledge of the business , it would have been easy for you to make an unintentional slip . |
| 20 | It 's a big guitar , 16″ wide across the body and just over 4¾″ deep at the bottom bout , and with handsome-looking wood and satin-finished lacquer throughout it makes an immediate impression . |
| 21 | Five floors below , somebody is sounding off as the traffic before them makes a slow start at the lights . |
| 22 | An ice-cream tub with a lid which has very small holes punched in it make a good container for the culture . |
| 23 | But it is also important to remember that the object of the 1790 visit was really Switzerland , traditionally the land of liberty ; Wordsworth never retracted his belief in the ideals of Switzerland , which helps to explain why , when France threatened Swiss independence in the late 1790s , it was necessary for him to make a decisive choice . |
| 24 | Here the staccato ranges presumably from ‘ snow ’ to ‘ rain ’ but hardly to ‘ hail ’ It is here where , given the speed of Mozart 's writing , the exact character of the staccato was not important enough for him to make a conscious effort at graphic differentiation , and where , as a consequence , dots and strokes have the same meaning . |
| 25 | Black clouds were rolling up over the forest to his right , which now looked hostile , as though it were waiting for him to make a false move ; to tall perhaps , so that it could advance and swallow him , like a wild animal . |
| 26 | ‘ So you have come to me to make a double betrayal of it . |
| 27 | ‘ Your father is a worried man and he is looking to you to make a good marriage , that way at least your own future will be secure . ’ |
| 28 | A distressing failure in something which was important to him , athletic ability perhaps , may lead to him making a negative judgment about himself every time he experiences any difficulty in competitive activities in the future . |
| 29 | ‘ Now it is a general rule , that no court of limited jurisdiction can give itself jurisdiction by a wrong decision on a point collateral to the merits of the case upon which the limit to its jurisdiction depends ; and however its decision may be final on all particulars , making up together that subject-matter which , if true , is within its jurisdiction , and , however necessary in many cases it may be for it to make a preliminary inquiry , whether some collateral matter be or be not within the limits , yet , upon this preliminary question , its decision must always be open to inquiry in the superior Court . ’ |
| 30 | Fourteen days would seem to be a more reasonable period though the landlord may be concerned that this could leave little time for it to make a considered response where the notice is subject to a time restriction . |