Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She makes regular visits to Osteopath , Steven Davies in Cheltenham for treatment . |
| 2 | I 've never believed it , but sometimes she makes such leaps of comprehension … |
| 3 | Torn between high society and the life of the workers on the estate , she makes many mistakes before seeing the truth . |
| 4 | She is already a megastar in Japan , where she makes frequent visits for personal and TV appearances . |
| 5 | She makes negative prints and she manipulates photographic materials with acid . |
| 6 | The Marr technique of painting is to go and visit the subject , where she makes copious notes on eye colour and other little idiosyncrasies that will help catch the soul of the dog . |
| 7 | She makes lovely cakes . |
| 8 | Try to have your progress reviewed regularly with your nurse manager , so that neither of you makes misleading assumptions about your ability to cope or happiness in the job . |
| 9 | At the same time , he makes useful points which can lead us to other conclusions : |
| 10 | Gustave writes this in one of his earliest letters to Louise Colet ; and over a seven-year period ( 1846–53 ) he makes occasional references to the planned autobiography . |
| 11 | Because in that paper there is a passage where Trivers says , if my theory is right , and basically it 's this Trivers Willard thing he was talking about , that parents and offspring will be in conflict about parental investment , he says , if my theory is right and if parents discriminate investment on the basis of offspring success , then he makes two predictions . |
| 12 | Against this background he makes two remarks about children : |
| 13 | On which he makes two statements : first , that we are unmoved by it ; second , that it is a tragedy , especially to the eight-year-old son . |
| 14 | Editor , — Nicholas Wald rightly emphasises the importance and the ethical nature of randomised multicentre prevention trials , but he makes two statements that can not go unchallenged . |
| 15 | He makes two points : one , that they are as numerous proportionately in Edinburgh as in London , but in Scottish towns more plentiful than in comparable English locations ; and two , on the whole he finds them more quiet , and modest . |
| 16 | Even my dad , he makes sexist remarks to me about my looks . |
| 17 | ( Thus Auer complains of Gumperz that " sometimes he makes strong claims about the effect of a given type or instance of code switching on the subsequent development of the sequence , which are based on informants ' reports , but fails to reproduce this subsequent passage " ( Auer 1984b : 106 , fn. 10 ) . ) |
| 18 | He makes great videos as well . |
| 19 | But he makes new friends easily , and it was Prevert who once related the most revealing anecdote about Doisneau and his commitment to his accomplices . |
| 20 | As Paul writes to this leading city in Asia Minor ( present-day Turkey ) around the year AD 60 he makes many statements in opposition to the false teachers who–e influence has apparently been so prevalent . |
| 21 | ‘ Not only is he a good ball winner , he makes good angles and scores regularly . |
| 22 | Others have observed that , for a ‘ positivist ’ , he makes significant concessions to natural law thought . |
| 23 | Mr Cable should get his facts straight before he makes false allegations . |
| 24 | Handsome new Dr Robert Khalefa is so arrogant he makes fatal errors . |
| 25 | ‘ He makes little gestures that are profoundly human . |
| 26 | He makes forty contacts . |
| 27 | To this end he makes periodic counts , from the issue records , of the number of books on loan in each category . |
| 28 | He stands alone — as Kenneth Clarke or David Ennals will confirm — and he makes few friends . |
| 29 | Yvonete , who works in the nearby cigarette factory , takes us to her husband 's workshop , where he makes wooden effigies of the Christ of Rio for sale to tourists . |
| 30 | To form a working hypothesis , he makes some assumptions ; that global warming is irreversibly established , that the probable result for Britain would be a rise in sea levels , and that while the south-east will become more ‘ Mediterranean ’ , the north-west will get milder and wetter . |