Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] make [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the years , it had seemed to get heavier , so that now she made only two excursions a week , mostly to the outskirts , making a point never to visit the same house more than twice a year . |
| 2 | Here they make suitably valedictory gestures , by John Tenniel , October 1886 . |
| 3 | Y'know if you wan na have a go , you wan na say something , then you make quite subtle gestures to catch the eye of somebody and so on . |
| 4 | Sometimes it makes very good sense to borrow money for something . |
| 5 | If competitors and circumstances are regarded as the " enemy " then It makes as much sense for a corporation to have alternative objectives as it does for a military commander . |
| 6 | Indeed it made very few references to the Mediterranean initiative unlike the heavy coverage of the Soviet scheme to neutralise the Persian Gulf . |
| 7 | He had hoped that by trying some whisky he 'd understand adults a bit better ; instead they made even less sense . |
| 8 | A native Russian of genius , L. Tolstoy , had been blinded by his feelings in the famine of 1891–2 when he made mildly inaccurate statements about the Tsarist relief administration . |
| 9 | This is partly a result of private acquisition of forest lands prior to the General Revision Act of 1891 , when it made more economic sense to annex high quality , easily accessible forests . |
| 10 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 11 | It 's quite rare , which is why it made so much publicity . |