Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] make a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I made a commitment to some edges , particularly the diagonals and verticals , carefully placing my principal vanishing point and then co-ordinating the parallel lines to this point on the horizon . |
| 2 | So I made a joke-offering to God and sang satirically , with all the insincerity I could muster , the song which begins , ‘ This world is not my home . |
| 3 | No that 's where it went a bit wobbly so I made a hook on it for a carriage . |
| 4 | So I made a date with him at the base . |
| 5 | So I made a joke about the holiday suggestion . |
| 6 | So I make a joke of it — I flirt with everyone from the tea-lady to the sales manager and no one takes it seriously . ’ |
| 7 | So you make a habit of falling off fountains , do you ? ’ he sneered . |
| 8 | Once we had a girl who never , but never , took a bath , and after suffering her proximity for far too long we made a complaint to Miss Malley . |
| 9 | We had the film developed at one of those new 24-hour places and together we made a card for Father 's Day . |
| 10 | Archie Hart 's suit filled and perhaps incautiously he made a dash for the shelter of some dunes , where he hoped to drain it out . |
| 11 | So he made a go of permanently avoiding the issue . |
| 12 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 13 | And so he made a gesture as if to say , It 's all yours . |
| 14 | So he made a habit of it , Loretta thought to herself . |
| 15 | So he made a cup of coffee ( realising , sensibly for once , that he 'd had enough alcohol ) , and sat down in the low upholstered chair with wooden arms that was one of the room 's few comforts . |
| 16 | And then er the the the lace trade he he worked on , when women wore high collars , boned high collars and he made the little narrow edging lace about like that and it was goffered so it made a frill round the face . |
| 17 | There is , as has been said , all party support for the Children Act and it is nice to see the Labour Party agreeing with Conservative legislation , as with the care in the community , asking us to rush our legislation , so it makes a change for us to be united on something . |
| 18 | Elsewhere I made a point of discussing historians , such as Taylor and Elton , whom students would actually be reading . |
| 19 | Admittedly it makes a change from Stratocasters , but whatever happened to originality ? |
| 20 | Still it made a change from the straightforward garments . |
| 21 | It is also what makes a book like this so welcome . |
| 22 | Now he makes a point of keeping in touch with his local branch . |
| 23 | Today I made a break with habit and tradition , and took my lunch at the New Born Restaurant . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know what kind of madness overtook me , ’ he said , ‘ but a little time ago I made a contract with somebody to have her killed . ’ |
| 25 | Well you made a list of what you would like for your birthday , it does n't say |
| 26 | You 're going to say , ‘ How can anyone tell the difference ? ’ or ‘ Well it makes a change from being on holiday , ’ or something nasty and bitter and hurtful like that . |
| 27 | So I just run round with 'oover and dusted and polished , then I made a cup of tea . |
| 28 | Scrambled eggs again , and coffee , then I made a thermos of tea , pushed that , with a packet of biscuits , into the pocket of my anorak , and set off along the cliff path . |
| 29 | Unfortunately she made a mistake of naming the church where Jesus was found as St George 's , which happened to be a Church of England edifice . |
| 30 | Then you make a double-bogey on the 1st , so you set par as a target . |