Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They came to an uninhabited hut where they made a fire to dry their clothes , for all of them were wet through to the skin , and an old sail was spread upon the bare ground , which served as a bed for the Prince , who was very well pleased with it and slept soundly . ’ |
| 2 | It 's a spectacular scene and I make a point of leaving my dictation and watching through the curtains each evening . |
| 3 | I remember being podgy , no make-up , an unsmart lady but I made a lot of noise and he seemed to like that . ’ |
| 4 | There is also the question whether she made a decision which was limited in duration and to which she would not have adhered if she had been alerted to dangers of a refusal to accept blood transfusions or similar blood-based treatment . |
| 5 | Although the plan has been superimposed over an existing plan , erm , to be charitable it 's at best confusing , erm , my feeling is that in actual fact the plan there does n't actually show us , well enough , and you may consider that we ought to be asking for a much clearer plan before we make a decision . |
| 6 | Graeme Woodhatch , 38 , was shot four times at close range as he made a phone call at the Royal Free Hospital in London 's Hampstead in May . |
| 7 | Mr MacGregor rejected Opposition charges that the Government 's plans had been torpedoed by the banks ' withdrawal when he made a statement to the Commons yesterday . |
| 8 | The nurse brings to the relationship a maturity which permits toleration of frustration if , for example , a patient is not at home when she makes a house call ; or if a patient does not take the prescribed medication ; or removes a dressing or falls out of bed . |
| 9 | Sure enough , Lewis Luther , or whoever , turned up in full Airborne rig — I was pretty sure it was the same bike and I made a note of its number this time — and they did the business as they had at Holborn . |
| 10 | She launched herself into the tiny room , crouching , arms spread wide , ready to grab Gazzer if he made a dash for the door . |
| 11 | I liked the way the usherette threaded the torn half-tickets on to a long string so they made a branch of monkey-puzzle tree . |
| 12 | Major C R Anson of Anson Airways promised to buy the prototype if it made a record flight to Australia where it would be operated . |
| 13 | We could n't leave Malham country without seeing the Cove and we made a detour in the mini-bus . |
| 14 | Second , the firm is n't subject to the whims of the City , and does n't have to face crises of confidence if it makes a loss during one quarter — it simply does n't publish its results , and is therefore answerable only to itself . |
| 15 | Seven-year-old Michael had written in his diary , ‘ On Saturday I helped my mum bake a cake and I made a dress for my doll ’ . |
| 16 | The magazine folded and we all got drunk on Bulgarian wine and I made a speech about going out to penetrate the government and cut the arteries of the police state right at its heart — you need Bulgarian wine to say things like that it makes me faint to think of it now . |
| 17 | ‘ Bear with me a moment while I make a phone call . ’ |
| 18 | S 40 provides that a charitable company must obtain the Commissioners ' consent before it makes a change in its objectives . |
| 19 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 20 | BROOKSIDE actor Dean Sullivan who plays roguish Jimmy Corkhill stepped into a real-life drama when he made a citizen 's arrest after a valuable painting was damaged at an art gallery . |
| 21 | The race is good fun and it makes a lot of money for charity . |
| 22 | Do not be too quick to blame the puppy if it makes a mess when you are indoors . |
| 23 | They reckon arrests were made down but they were down at Beskett Station and they made a couple inside the ground , but I think they were just people running on the pitch you know , they were over enthusiastic . |
| 24 | Through her tears she saw Garry scaling the wall as he made a run for it . |
| 25 | They 've asked him to look at the case because it makes a mockery of justice . |
| 26 | It 's that game where you make a grid on a sheet of graph paper and each player has one battleship ( four squares ) , two cruisers ( three squares ) , three destroyers ( two squares ) and so on , then you have to knock out the opponent 's fleet . |
| 27 | They proposed to my father that he make a list of all our properties in Palestine so that they could buy them . |
| 28 | theory that you made a mistake , and you 've got to somehow explain that |
| 29 | Mum meant it to be Israel , after her rabbinical father so I made a compromise later by labelling myself Israel Jack ) . |
| 30 | This sort of reading is only for the dedicated follower of the history of taste , though any reader particularly interested in a picture may find within a single catalogue entry an acutely discriminating judgement or interesting facts ; for example , Tietze 's entry also points out that Manet so much admired the Tintoretto self-portrait that he made a copy of it . |