Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time the press and the media were there and I declined to make any comment on the negotiations . |
| 2 | ‘ I was in charge of ‘ Fluon ’ for a couple of years and I failed to make any impact whatsoever on that particular problem . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He remembered a girl he had known once who used to say ‘ franchement ’ whenever she meant ‘ frankly ’ — rather a soupy girl , and far from frank , but consoling all the same on despairing Sundays , and she had made beautiful casseroles . |
| 5 | She put the telephone down on the floor and knelt beside it , facing Shildon and saying Tavett was in trouble and she had to make some calls . |
| 6 | ‘ We had only tents for shelter and we tried to make concrete blocks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The point was that their claims had gone to different adjudication officers and they had made different decisions . |
| 9 | So as a result of that because it 's been erm changed in the nineteenth century the eighteen forties and eighteen fifties , architectural historians who we who were faced with a real problem with York cos York had something like fifty medieval churches and erm er about thirty of them surviving into into the twentieth century , erm and they had to make some decisions about which ones to preserve and which ones to let go . |
| 10 | Well and they 'd made little buns . |
| 11 | I drew this to the attention of Mellowes , my line manager , at an early stage and he had made vague noises about something being in the pipeline . |
| 12 | He 'd thrown rocks at windows of offices and works they 'd sacked him from , he 'd defaced buildings , scratched officials ' cars and mutilated bonnet mascots ( though that was largely for his own safety ) and he 'd made bomb-hoax telephone calls . |
| 13 | He had centre front stage , his voice projected forward over Therese 's , and he ceased to make any attempt to act out the plotted movements with her . |
| 14 | Help with management skills , communication skills and language games improved their relationship and he started to make good progress in his language and his general behaviour . |
| 15 | And he wanted to make similar remarks about our initial belief that though we use the same language and agree on the words with which to describe the colours of the objects around us , still we might for all we know see the objects completely differently ; an object that causes in me what I call a sensation of red may cause in you what I would call a sensation of blue , though we can never know this since we will continue to agree on what to say and on how to act in our differently coloured environments ( we will all stop at a red traffic light , for instance ) . |
| 16 | In , his brother in law in you know and er he was somewhat hurt that his brother in law Will was getting a tremendous share of small blocks and he wanted to make more money out of them . |
| 17 | Mr Jones said : ‘ He did make reference to the letter in the speech that he made and he did make positive noises but whether they will translate into positive actions we 'll have to wait and see . ’ |
| 18 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 19 | Of the film 's religious imagery , he says : ‘ We talked about the Fifty-First psalm ( which is sung by one of the kitchen boys ) ; it does n't give you many clues , but I was reading it again this morning and it started making more sense . |
| 20 | Gerver ( 1980 , personal communication ) had reported a high correlation between these measures and foreign language interpreting abilities , and it appeared to make little difference which language the text was presented in . |
| 21 | Whether the ground actually became firmer or whether I was spurred on by fear I do not know , but I began to make better progress . |
| 22 | I did n't do so , but I did make another suggestion . |
| 23 | But you chose to make some rules . |
| 24 | But she had made huge progress , Lisa congratulated herself as she got ready to pack up at the end of another exhausting day . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But she did make one request . |
| 27 | He wanted to leave now too , but he had to make some kind of contact with the dead man first . |
| 28 | The more of these properties a dummy possessed the more strongly it was mobbed , but it seemed to make little difference whether the object was a stuffed owl with real plumage or an owl-shaped piece of painted wood . |