Example sentences of "[pers pn] make [noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You must paint with joy , the joy with which you make love to a woman .
2 She was so full of self-hatred that she made life into a torture chamber .
3 ‘ Sorry for what , that you made love to a cripple ?
4 He looked quite normal , however , and we made conversation for a while , although he seemed to be thinking of something else .
5 For the next few days we made love with a kindliness and consideration we had never experienced before .
6 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 .
7 On a bend of the Colorado river we made camp for a month .
8 We made camp in a grove of cottonwood trees , about the only available protection from the sun .
9 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 .
10 They made employment for a workforce and were used in the work of other occupations ; but mainly they were used for recreation .
11 They make use of a combination of two sensory inputs .
12 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 .
13 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 . ’
14 Of course , it makes sense in a city like York .
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