Example sentences of "[pron] would make a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think I 'd make a good do you think I 'd make a good director ? |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd make a terrible mother — I have no interest at all in giving up my career to change nappies . ’ |
| 3 | But I 'm not convinced I 'd make a Benedictine monk … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But if you think I 'd make a public exhibition of myself to catch any man 's attention , you do n't know me at all . ’ |
| 5 | I think yours I 'd make a lovely picture |
| 6 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 7 | If we 're given an assignment , whatever it is , perform it well , do n't think that I would make a better magazine servant than that brother over there and I do n't like it on the accounts , why do they always use me as a hall servant ? |
| 8 | My brother said that I would make a good banker . |
| 9 | And at school they said I would make a good teacher . |
| 10 | I think I would make a lovely doggie model . |
| 11 | You reckon Hatton would also have told him the river bed was full of stones one of which would make a suitable weapon for knocking off his informant ? ’ |
| 12 | He envisages the ambience of the place as ‘ discernibly British ’ and wants to see an element of ‘ commercial ’ use : private art galleries , bookshops and design studios would fit in very well , and there could be restaurants off the splendid riverside terrace , which would make a fine sculpture park . |
| 13 | Perhaps with a generous spirit on both sides some sort of accommodation might have been reached but before the possible constraints of the French Union became important there were more ominous developments , first in Vietnam , then in Paris , which would make a full-scale confrontation more likely . |
| 14 | be too big and one could be too small , which would make a big difference . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't think she 'd make a suitable mother for Kirsty . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't believe she 'd make a good mother for Kirsty . ’ |
| 17 | What a waste : she 'd make a fine wife for an intelligent man . ’ |
| 18 | Just stick to your argument that the dealer said you 'd make a certain profit . |
| 19 | ‘ I had a feeling you 'd make a better recovery without me around . ’ |
| 20 | You 'd make a lousy advisor , Ben . |
| 21 | You 'd make a good father , Rex . |
| 22 | a lovely course for re reflexology and one day , I went to Shambrook College and he said to me you 've got , you 've got a great feeling with your hands he said , you , you , you 'd make a good reflexology , but the courses were in Luton |
| 23 | " I swear you 'd make a worthy opponent in any ring . |
| 24 | ‘ Much obliged , Bessie , ’ said Joe , ‘ you 'd make a fine corporal . |
| 25 | She would make a good wife , when he decided to settle down . |
| 26 | At one stage her mother had felt she would make a good doctor and did all she could to encourage her to take up medicine . |
| 27 | ‘ Let's have a picnic , ’ she said , telling herself that next week she would make a real effort to work again at the practice of virtue . |
| 28 | On the whole , she decided , being a rat was more chic , but nevertheless she determined to write a long earnest article soon on some subject of profound importance in which she would make a significant contribution to the sum of human awareness . |
| 29 | Tonight she had said nothing , so Frankie almost believed himself safe , yet he lived with the constant fear that one night she would make a horrible mistake and he would walk to his death in the inky shadows upstairs . |
| 30 | She had been intending for days to make a start on clearing out the cloakroom ; now was the moment — she would make a preliminary survey , set aside what should be kept , see if there was anything good enough for Oxfam . |