Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When asked eight weeks ago what her dream for the future was , Tatum replied : ‘ It 's that when John 's career is finished he takes care of the kids while I make two pictures a year and get to pick my scripts and work with whoever I want .
2 I watched her shuffle , wriggle and avert her eyes while we made stilted conversation about our lives .
3 It is certainly true that it is worth ‘ pooling ’ sovereignty in some areas since it makes more sense to do this than to act independently .
4 Because I look at hard times and I make this vow : This will not stand . "
5 ‘ In many ways it would be playing into the hands of the terrorists if you make daily life unbearable in the capital . ’
6 Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds
7 It was five years before he made another series , but in 1974 and 1975 he recorded Christmas specials .
8 The late Raymond Lewenthal is perhaps best known these days as the first performer in modern times to have revived the music of Alkan , a collection of whose music he also published two years after he made these Gershwin recordings ( in Walthamstow Town Hall , of all places ) .
9 TWO and a half years after she made national headlines with her searing attack on George Bush at the 1988 Democratic national convention , Ann Richards was inaugurated as Texas 's 45th governor on January 15th .
10 The things that we make sure people know before we get there is the price all right , I 've already mentioned that .
11 In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ .
12 Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond .
13 I had a friend who suffered from twisted testicles so I made sure part of my sponsorship arrangement is that I 'm provided with decent shorts with inner briefs that give me support .
14 Our profits are disappointingly small in relation to , er er , the , er first half of last year er then , we had buoyant conditions and we made more money than we ever had before .
15 Look , I 'll tell you what — I 'll wash the pots while you make some coffee . ’
16 Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves .
17 I mentioned the reduction in unemployment that has taken place in Holyhead , and , while the decrease has not been as good there as in some other areas , the announcements that I made this morning gave a priority to Holyhead .
18 Trailing variegated nepetas are often sold with the bedding plants during summer at garden centres as they make admirable subjects for hanging baskets and window boxes .
19 Robbie observed him through lowered lashes as he made hearty inroads on the food .
20 In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’
21 Well here are the answers and they make shameful reading for Premier John Major .
22 There are no tears but I make squeaky sounds with my mouth .
23 Good cats keep the 'ome free from rodents an' they make good pets .
24 to discover what are the influences on girls when they make occupational choices , and
25 I never thought er Mrs that I 'd be seeing , I 'd like to see the excreta first but er could it be , could it be a dormouse because they enjoy the insects and berries and they make similar type holes .
26 The creation of the autonomous region had been opposed by the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNFL ) , the largest of the separatist guerrilla organizations , on the grounds that it made insufficient concessions to Moslem autonomy and failed to meet the terms of the 1976 Tripoli Accord [ see p. 28440 ] .
27 No what I mean is that er once the item is in production if you wish to order another hundred drop tanks or another thousand drop tanks if you make that order then approximately one year later you would receive deliveries of those tanks against that order .
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