Example sentences of "[pers pn] make [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made friends with a girl in a similar plight : Sophie had twin boys the same age as Tom , and her husband , Jack , ex-R.A.F. with a handlebar moustache , was working for his exams in chartered accountancy . |
| 2 | Later I made scenes with a knife and threatened to swallow a bottle of pills . ’ |
| 3 | Whether you make notes at a lecture , in the library or from textbooks that you are reading , they must be the finished article in its final shape , except for the colour coding indicating ranges of importance . |
| 4 | How to comment on a proposal : When you make observations on a planning application you should only comment on planning grounds . |
| 5 | ‘ You must paint with joy , the joy with which you make love to a woman . |
| 6 | She was so full of self-hatred that she made life into a torture chamber . |
| 7 | ‘ Sorry for what , that you made love to a cripple ? |
| 8 | How do you make friends with a squirrel ? |
| 9 | He looked quite normal , however , and we made conversation for a while , although he seemed to be thinking of something else . |
| 10 | For the next few days we made love with a kindliness and consideration we had never experienced before . |
| 11 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 12 | On a bend of the Colorado river we made camp for a month . |
| 13 | We made camp in a grove of cottonwood trees , about the only available protection from the sun . |
| 14 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 15 | They took too much for granted , and they made mistakes of a kind that they ought not to have made . ’ |
| 16 | They made employment for a workforce and were used in the work of other occupations ; but mainly they were used for recreation . |
| 17 | They make use of a combination of two sensory inputs . |
| 18 | These flashbacks to his past in Texas show him making love to a girl whose family seems to object to him , then ( in an obliquely filmed sequence ) he is gang-raped by a group of yobs . |
| 19 | Coleridge was overwhelmed , as he made plain in a letter to Joseph Cottle : ‘ T. Poole 's opinion of Wordsworth is — that he is the greatest Man , he ever knew — I coincide . ’ |
| 20 | During his examination he makes notes on a pad . |
| 21 | Of course , it makes sense in a city like York . |
| 22 | They also put Unionists on the defensive , prompting them to make accusations about a republican and Communist conspiracy which stoked fears among their own rank-and-file supporters . |