Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] make [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I planned to make one chair as a trial piece , and , if it looked right , to do a real run of six , using the trial pieces as ‘ templates ’ . |
| 2 | I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals . |
| 3 | ‘ I wish I 'd made that point to the Committee . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd made some plans for Rainbow 's next tte — tte , scripted some frank revelations , an impassioned plea … |
| 5 | This time the press and the media were there and I declined to make any comment on the negotiations . |
| 6 | So I started making some calls of my own . |
| 7 | I felt a lot of anger , but there was nothing I could do with it ; then it faded , until I started making some connections with feminism at the beginning of the seventies . |
| 8 | I started to make little demands of Shagbadly . |
| 9 | I struggled to make some sense of this new and appalling complication . |
| 10 | I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea . |
| 11 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 12 | When I first started work here I had to make 14 motors per hour . |
| 13 | Its reflection on the water surface of the river at Abingdon advanced towards me , in this case not exactly to my feet because I was up on the bridge , but whatever else I managed to achieve in the picture I had to make this plane of the river advance . |
| 14 | I felt that I had to make some sort of social effort so I swung my legs off the bed and sat sheepishly on the edge . |
| 15 | I had to make some sort of last-ditch stand . |
| 16 | If it were mine and I wanted to make serious use of the bass , I 'd probably take the E and A drones off , as one could argue that they do n't do enough on top of the heavier bass strings , which might be better used for playing ‘ proper ’ bass lines . |
| 17 | You would have the right only if you 'd made good use of your experience of life . ’ |
| 18 | We 'd just feel happier if we 'd thought you 'd made some provisions for the future . ’ |
| 19 | When you began to make all sort of when c contacts began to be made between erm you and South Wales in terms of support |
| 20 | The fresh air she breathed made pure blood for you , and often during the day she wondered what you would be like , whether your eyes would be blue or brown , and prayed God to make you a good child . |
| 21 | Lady Grubb 's invitations to them were always by letter , and led to a file of correspondence because she enjoyed making microscopic changes of plan . |
| 22 | But she did make two purchases from the hat and the dress departments with the money which J. D. O'Conner had given her for the two articles which she had written for him . |
| 23 | It was not that she lacked sympathy for Sarah ; she had made that plain in her letter to John . |
| 24 | She had made determined attempts at suicide by slashing her wrists several times . |
| 25 | She told us that she had made several visits to the London Zoo and so was familiar with the appearance of modern apes . |
| 26 | She was indicted on Nov. 21 and on Dec. 6 pleaded not guilty in a Baltimore federal court to charges that she had embezzled $5,600,000 in funds from the HUD and that she had made false statements to the government . |
| 27 | Whether it was to share his moment of regret at the passing of time , or to express disillusion with Parkin himself — she had made some comment in the car about how he was one of the few television reporters she knew and respected — Dexter did not know . |
| 28 | She had made some preparations for their dinner but she did n't object to going out . |
| 29 | You would need to be selective and have many to choose from if you wanted to make regular use of this kind of material . |
| 30 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |