Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to make a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I just find those subject the easiest to deal with : on the one hand , they 're the most tangible feelings I have to pull out of myself ; on the other , they make me want to make a stronger statement when I ultimately do that . |
2 | I intend to make a great deal of money from this if my speculations are correct . ’ |
3 | After one or two formal speeches ( at which reference was made to our visit as the ‘ first short-term English course since the crushing of the Gang of Four ’ , and I tried to make a suitable reply , ) we were whisked off to the Friendship Hotel to a welcoming meal consisting of Peking duck , ancient duck 's eggs , and other good things , and I wielding our chopsticks to the best of our ability . |
4 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
5 | ‘ I 've got a visitor coming at six o'clock and I want to make a good impression on him — it 's twenty to four already . ’ |
6 | ‘ But at some point I will need to sit down and figure out if I want to make a real career shift into another area , such as politics . |
7 | Sometime I will need to figure out if I want to make a real career shift — such as politics . |
8 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
9 | I want to make a few suggestions to my right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary about small businesses . |
10 | Well I agree with that but I want to make a few points first of all , because poll tax was tangled up with this . |
11 | That 's all I ever wanted to do in boxing after I 'd learned the craft and now I want to make a little bit more ’ . |
12 | I hope to make a further announcement about that very shortly . |
13 | I happened to make a shrewd investment in ‘ seventy-eight , and a couple of years ago I sold out . |
14 | With Adrar now five miles away , flotsam and jetsam were increasing , so I began to make a mental inventory of all I passed — six sardine cans , two bottles , the greater part of a tyre , too many small pieces of rubber to count , a five-litre can and the cylinder head from a car engine . |
15 | I suppose it was just my managerial instinct coming to the fore , but I decided to make a tactical substitution . |
16 | I try to make a just estimate of myself as I do of everyone else , really . |
17 | I had to make a polite pretence at reluctance . |
18 | But I had to make a bigger adjustment to studying . |
19 | So I said I had to make a quick decision either I was going to go up me chain past his whatsit and into the roof , or else go thirty feet down and run right across the chamber into whichever er level they could go to . |
20 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
21 | I wish to make a simple plea about the 20 per cent . |
22 | I wish to make a little progress before giving way . |
23 | I need to make a few calls . ’ |
24 | I have to make a great effort to keep the tent tidy . |
25 | ‘ I have to make a full report . |
26 | I have to make a little noise to prove I 'm not . |
27 | There are occasions — there have been occasions in this Parliament — when I have to make a supplementary business statement . |
28 | I wanted to make a raised bed to grown acid-loving plants in my limey soil . |
29 | Then there is Alistair Maclean 's The Satan Bug ( 1962 ) , based upon the Morden Microbiological Research Establishment in Wiltshire , which contrives to make a tiresome tale out of ‘ a madman on the loose with the Satan bug threatening to wipe out God knows how much of England if his conditions are n't met ’ . |
30 | Typically , this will benefit builders and developers who intend to make a taxable supply of property , but who , in a troubled property market , make short-term exempt lettings before making the taxable supply . |