Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] make [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm can I just make one comment on , on that last contribution . |
| 2 | ‘ In true Hitchcock tradition , I always make one appearance in each series of Rumpole , but this time I decided to give myself a speaking part , ’ he says . |
| 3 | The interpretation which perhaps makes most sense of people 's answers is that their decisions seem to be based first on a desire to pay off quickly , and second ( in modification of this ) on how high an instalment they can afford — rather than on interest rates or total cost . |
| 4 | Bibikov was no liberal , but neither were some of those who eventually made major contributions to the emancipation of 1861 . |
| 5 | Edward 's manipulation of the wool trade for his financial advantage intensified the divisions between the small group of wealthy merchants who stood to benefit from Edward 's schemes and the lesser merchants who eventually made common cause with the producers in opposing the monopolistic structure that Edward tried to create . |
| 6 | One important element in this is to make certain that you understand the tariff for calls and that you only make essential calls during peak rate periods . |
| 7 | Modernism is described to us with references to a neat sequence of male coteries who obviously made full use of the opportunity for dialogue and debate . |
| 8 | And Madam I 'd ask you not to make any award for compensation to his girlfriend cos that 's just gon na add insult to injury really , is n't it ? |
| 9 | I mean , come on , but I do understand that some of you were briefed or , or Do n't worry about this now , but we would like this briefing questionnaire back before you leave on Wednesday , er , if you were a late replacement , could you just make that plain on there , er , if you were n't briefed , you 've got the shortest questionnaire in the world to fill in . |
| 10 | It all sounds a lot more complicated now are n't you just making extra work for yourself ? |
| 11 | She still made occasional trips to Brittany ; on the last of those , she fell ill and died 18 September 1939 in the Hôpital de Dieppe . |
| 12 | Q : Have you ever made any contact with responsible dog owner 's ? |
| 13 | Lessing was a man of many parts — writer , literary critic , historian , advocate of religious tolerance — who also made pioneering contributions to the study of the New Testament , and was from time to time embroiled in the continuing controversies between rationalism and orthodoxy . |
| 14 | Unusually , the policy can be identified with a particular minister : Duncan Sandys ( who later made another contribution to planning with the promotion of the Civic Trust and the Civic Amenities Act ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Or do you often make social calls at this hour of the night ? ’ |
| 16 | Her own approach was innovative in its own right , and she often made valuable suggestions for improvements in services . |
| 17 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 18 | Could you please make these adjustments for the next matrix list which I realise will not be for some time and , in fact , by that time Karen will be off on maternity leave but I leave it to you whether you want to slot in Joan and Jane for that period . |
| 19 | Perhaps she even makes more errors in a test than in continuous writing , because not having any context for the words , she is unable to check them for meaning when she reads them over . |
| 20 | Was she about to make some obeisance to it ? |
| 21 | This crablike sidling away from all he is and does catches the tune of the achieved , fully formed Stavrogin ; unlike Svidrigailov , who incidentally makes great play with the fact that he 's bored , he would — could — never call himself a debauchee . |
| 22 | She never made any comment on the notes , seemed neither upset nor glad to receive them . |
| 23 | You paint because you ca n't help it even if you never make any money with it . ’ |
| 24 | The fear that the encounter might have been handled incompetently is concealed in dismissive remarks about this type of work , about it not bring their job , as well as critical comments on the members of the public who think it is and who therefore make unrealistic demands on them . |
| 25 | I mean have you ac hav have you actually made that comment in public ? |
| 26 | However the librettist , Giovanni De Gamerra ( 1743–1803 ) , had also sent the libretto to Pietro Metastasio in Vienna who subsequently made various suggestions for improvement , including the addition of a scene in the second act , so Mozart had to rewrite some of his music . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , we still make certain assumptions about them and about our relationship to them , otherwise we would simply not know how to orient ourselves towards the language , or what to say . |
| 28 | Talking of standing did did we ever make any progress on Fishergate ? |
| 29 | We also made significant in-roads into a number of major UK public utilities and district fire brigades . |
| 30 | We often make two assumptions about complex societies : |