Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look , I 've no money for a hotel so I 'd better make my own arrangements for tonight . |
| 2 | Then when he followed you down the corridor I thought I 'd better make sure you were alright . ’ |
| 3 | Anyway I 'd better make sure I remember that . |
| 4 | But , just to make sure you do n't jump to any more ludicrous conclusions , I 'd better make it clear that I do n't ever intend you to get away from me . |
| 5 | I 'd better make sure I 've got enough energy to keep up with her . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd better make myself scarce too , ’ I said . |
| 7 | Then she added hastily , ‘ I 'd better make a start on fixing the table . ’ |
| 8 | And I got up and I was gon na tie her up like but and by gosh I thought I 'd better make for the door again . |
| 9 | Well I think I 'd better make a |
| 10 | I thought I 'd better make a cup of coffee . |
| 11 | So I said I 'd better make sure she 's in , so Sharan knocks on the door , no answer . |
| 12 | It would be hypocritical to describe myself as this new creature as I did no make a conscious effort to share our son on a 50/50 basis . |
| 13 | ‘ I did not make a fuss about it . |
| 14 | Tends to think ‘ I did not make it happen ’ . |
| 15 | How then can God say to Moses ( Exodus 6:2–3 ) that " by my name the Lord I did not make myself known the them " ( i.e. Abraham , etc . ) ? |
| 16 | I did not make good that afternoon . |
| 17 | ‘ I did not make a great job of that , did I ? ’ he asked . |
| 18 | On the whole , she thought as she grilled her lamb chop , tossed the broad beans from cullender to plate and regarded the ginger-haired Tobias who had curled up companionably on a copy of the parish magazine in the centre of the kitchen table , it 's an icon of paradise : a garden I did not make , a house I 'm only partly responsible for and , above all , no human contacts unless I seek them out . |
| 19 | And a very unnatural mother I should think myself if I did not make a push to secure it for Gerald ! ’ |
| 20 | I apologise if I did not make myself clear . |
| 21 | ‘ I got much more out of the car than I did in Kyalami and I did not make any mistakes . |
| 22 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 23 | Neumann , conveniently , attributes to me a generalization I did not make then proceeds to refute it . |
| 24 | However , I did not make the wedding but I did get some of the grog and a piece of the cake , and kissed the bride by proxy ( her maid of honour was stand-in ) . |
| 25 | This was a very old set and did not always work ; as I did not make contact with the control tower I came round and I saw that it was all clear for me to land , so I put my wheels down and made my approach . |
| 26 | ‘ I did not make love to her , Leonora , ’ he said forcibly . |
| 27 | Then I learned that if I did not make these payments I would be registered as a debtor for a period of six years . |
| 28 | I did n't make a systematic study but I occasionally followed up clues if I came across references in books and catalogues . |
| 29 | I did n't make friends easily , but the funny thing is that some of those I went to school with , and was n't so close to , have become good friends in later life . |
| 30 | I could n't make up my own mind whether to get him to lengthen or shorten and in consequence I did n't make his mind up to do either and we floundered over it untidily , his hooves rapping the wooden frames , my weight too far forward … a mess . |