Example sentences of "[conj] make a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | British people are , generally , deeply suspicious of ‘ with profit ’ companies who operate in the health and social care area and it remains to be seen whether free enterprise can win the hearts and minds of authority members and staff and make a profit at the same time . |
| 2 | Just as he was about to travel to Paris in November , to open a book exhibition and make a speech at the Bibliothèque Nationale , he caught a heavy cold which turned to bronchitis with congestion of the lungs ; a nurse was called in and he took a course of penicillin , but he still managed to make the journey . |
| 3 | The sweat was gathering in his brows , getting ready to slide down his nose and make a dewdrop at the end which would either stay there wobbling about very obviously and making him want to sneeze , or force him to draw attention to it by wiping it away . |
| 4 | Decide on a time each week to work on finishing off projects , and make a start at the beginning of the list , and work your way through it , ticking off the completed projects as you finish them . |
| 5 | She 'd told him the nurse was coming to see her lawyers and make a statement at the end of that week . |
| 6 | He three-putted from three feet and made a double-bogey at the very first hole . |
| 7 | Scrambling , she got to her feet and made a grab at the kitchen knife at the sink . |
| 8 | After Precious Link had led turning for home in the Peter Cazalet Memorial to score by six lengths from Super Express , Simon Earle , rider of the runner-up , complained that his mount had got unbalanced and made a mistake at the second last because Precious Link had taken his ground . |
| 9 | I knew the day and the month and made a stab at the year . |
| 10 | Perhaps he thought of this too when he climbed on the chair and made a noose at the end of the rope , a very neat noose with the rope bound ten times round the loop in even rings . |
| 11 | Athelstan sipped from his wine cup and made a face at the sourness of the drink . |
| 12 | The complexity , technology and chemical make-up of goods made it more difficult for people to understand what they were buying and to make a judgment at the time of purchase . |