Example sentences of "[pers pn] make an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I make an exception , of course , of the books they owned . |
| 2 | My job could be at stake if I make an error of judgment . ’ |
| 3 | If I make an omelette of your eggs or a statue out of your block of marble , that is conversion . |
| 4 | ‘ If I make an appearance one day , it will be in full armour , ’ had been his boast ; but even in full armour the armpit and the groin are never completely protected . |
| 5 | I make an observation about a recurring item in a newspaper and you interpret it as jealousy . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ For Top of the Pops , I make an effort to look glammed up but not too much — the knackered shorts tone the outfit down a bit ’ |
| 7 | But I am sensible enough to realise that if I make an effort to understand what different foods actually contain , it will help my body share the benefits of my enjoyment . |
| 8 | If you make an interpretation , make this clear . |
| 9 | If you make an error in a project powered from a PP3 size 9 volt battery , about the worst that will happen is that one or two semiconductors will be destroyed . |
| 10 | He had been causing my friend a great deal of trouble , so , to shut him up , he had you make an implant of the man committing a murder . |
| 11 | It 's important to make at least one other visit , at a different time of day , before you make an offer . |
| 12 | It 's nicer still if the table changes in the word processor when you make an alteration to your original spreadsheet . |
| 13 | If you make an arrangement , keep it . |
| 14 | you make an arrangement to have a game of tennis but the weather , you know i it 's snowing or it 's raining so a lot of them get rained off which is er quite sad . |
| 15 | I think it makes you feel more confident , when you make an effort to look good . |
| 16 | However , if you make an effort to be positive , you 'll get swept away on a tidal wave of valid enthusiasm . |
| 17 | When you make an assertion , what you are doing is telling your reader something you think is true . |
| 18 | If you make an assertion which you think in principle could be justified but which you do n't have space to justify , you can alert the reader by adding a phrase like : " I am assuming that … " , " we could argue that … " , or " it is generally accepted that … " ; the advantage of using these phrases is that you acknowledge that there is some possibility of disagreement . |
| 19 | If you make an appointment you should jolly well go and see it . |
| 20 | So what I would like to suggest , on this , on this one occasion only , and without any , setting precedents for the future either at this congress or future congresses , that we make an exception , and that in this particular deb debate we take additional speakers . |
| 21 | Head of Department : ‘ We make an assessment on three criteria , then combine them to give a mark out of 10 . ’ |
| 22 | In our practice , covering a population of 10000 , we make an average of 1.7 referrals a week . |
| 23 | And if we make an appointment to view some places and then we 'll know what time we 've got to doing the shopping and fit it in round taking mum . |
| 24 | Indeed , we make an effort not to use the phrase for a number of reasons , one of which is that we have been unable to figure out what it means ’ . |
| 25 | I believe if , we make an effort we can give people food . |
| 26 | To Lugano or any other place where we make an agreement . |
| 27 | Er , so you can say that er Mr is a friend of pensioner 's , he said , he said he would be prepared to , what I , I , I approached him and said er , what about Harlow Caring Council , are they prepared to assist the pensioners in any way or do they wish to join in on this , oh yes he said , of course Norman he said , how much are you paying er Ron I said well his asking forty pound for the , for the morning , oh he said I 'll go half way with that , then he came out and said to me , pull me up afterwards and ask me to go to leisure services about the Tuesday , and so I 'm still following that up and hopefully we will have two days on pensioner 's week , because you want to have as much impact as possible and in a few moments , when I nearly finished here , I shall be reading you something where you 'll see that it is important that we make an impact on the people of Harlow . |
| 28 | The family had always been interested in the leather trade , indeed as far back as eighteen hundred and fourteen er , our ancestors were tanners in the south country , and we make an article known as Hooper 's saddle food , which is much sought after by the saddlers , and other people using similar sort of leathers . |
| 29 | It is when we make an attempt to clarify it that the confidence begins to desert us in the face of difficulties . |
| 30 | Now , although the idea that whenever we see that someone is in pain we make an inference from behaviour to feeling is about as mythical as the idea that at some time in the past we made a Social Contract , the ‘ argument from analogy ’ line of reasoning seems much less implausible here than in the ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ case . |