Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [noun sg] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonard himself was enthused to make his own music , an inspiration which developed from being induced to learn the piano as a young boy with Miss McDougall , in which he said that neither he nor his sister made any headway . |
| 2 | It may seem paradoxical , but New Historicism 's acknowledgement of a great complexity and subtlety between text and history and its hesitancy to make generalised claims for a culture has so far produced critical analysis of texts which tend to be recognisably similar to one another . |
| 3 | The first of the Commission 's recommendations concerning the compulsory education of deaf and dumb children was naturally welcomed by deaf and dumb people , but the Commission 's preference for oralism and its failure to make any recommendation for higher education caused deep disappointment . |
| 4 | But Flora Thompson was simply a gentle recorder of her own not very exciting life : the beauty of her book lies in the skill of the writing and her ability to make everyday events of interest to her reader . |
| 5 | She did not encourage competition and her expression made that plain . |
| 6 | He was a merry young man and yet , quite firm in his discipline , so that the child was eager to please him and her education made rapid strides . |
| 7 | I was rather devastated when she told me she was moving to Crieff , as she made major contributions to the work of the Library here ; she had a long-term future , and her personality made many friends for the Library among our users . |
| 8 | Alison Mitchell , senior social worker , adult services , Staffordshire SSD : ‘ It will help both the client and their carer to make real choices to meet their respective needs ’ . |
| 9 | Few of their recommendations help reduce the uplands conflict and their document makes little contribution to the uplands debate . |
| 10 | Savage Orc shamans are renowned for their extraordinary powers and their ability to make magic potions . |
| 11 | The old people gaped silently , whilst Zimmerman and his wife made incoherent noises . |
| 12 | Both his uncle and his mother made substantial loans to the new firm , which was already engaged in a large contract for John Bibby & Sons . |
| 13 | Fred MacMurray was easy-going and a pleasure to work with ; Herbert Marshall was , as usual , his British self and a great actor ; Edgar Bergen and his dummy made great fun of everything they encountered , and it was an experience to see the manipulation and ventriloquism involved in the Bergen-McCarthy act . |
| 14 | Although de Gaulle recognized as much , he and his regime made little progress in that direction , and it is surely too simplistic to lay the entire blame for this failure at Pompidou 's door ( as the General 's admirers are inclined to do ) . |
| 15 | It is typical of the right hon. Gentleman and his party to make different noises in different places . |