Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] make [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is called the imprest , and out of this he or she makes all small payments . |
| 2 | Depressed people can of course make hasty and unwise decisions , and I made one such decision when , during my second term at Berkeley , I decided to give up my London flat . |
| 3 | And we made all these points clear to them , we also very much drew their drew their attention to making sure that any rules or advice they gave , did actually work out in an equal opportunity way . |
| 4 | Yesterday the it was n't yesterday , it was earlier on this week , the County Councillors set a new budget for Oxfordshire and they made ten million pounds worth of cuts . |
| 5 | And they make those horrible shoe box they were open . |
| 6 | The MEPs ' constituencies are simply too huge , and they make any true representation of the needs and interests of individual voters impossible . |
| 7 | Mother asked him to come to Sunday lunch and he made some awful speech about not assuming , or something . ’ |
| 8 | In 1889 he was one of the delegates to the International Congregational Council in Boston , and he made several further trips to North America , including one in 1907 to give the Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale University . |
| 9 | And he made another appalling imitation of the pheasant call . |
| 10 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 11 | More than 10 per cent of the turnover is in the African branch of his business and he makes regular flying visits to Nigeria . |
| 12 | Its lights flickered at random and it made odd beeping noises . |
| 13 | The new consumer durables ( TV , washing machines , refrigerators ) were much in demand , and it made sound economic sense to enjoy the use and benefit of such things at once and pay for them out of rising real incomes . |
| 14 | If the barriers to trade in the EEC are removed and it makes sound economic sense to do so , well and good . |
| 15 | But I make three best friends . |
| 16 | Our guiding principle is that pupils with special educational needs should , as far as possible , have the opportunity to experience the full range of the English curriculum , but we make some broad recommendations for modifications to attainment targets , programmes of study and assessment arrangements which we feel may nevertheless be necessary . |
| 17 | At 5ft 10½ inches and 13 stone he was big for a winger but he made 29 Southern League appearances for us that season out of a maximum of 38 , and scored two valuable goals at Cardiff ( where we won 2–1 ) and at Swindon ( where we won 2–0 ) . |
| 18 | This last statement should be noticed — he disliked assemblies and places where speeches were made at length and he did not enjoy being a chairman — but he made this single exception , the Convocation of York ; he always gave a presidential address , about which he took much trouble . |
| 19 | In a period when ballooning was an activity only for itinerant showmen , any interest in flying invited ridicule , but he made several unsuccessful attempts to form a society to encourage aeronautical developments . |
| 20 | But it created a new kind of assignment , which was a legal assignment in the sense that the assignee might sue directly in his own name without making the assignor a party ; but it made certain special requirements : |
| 21 | This might be slightly bending the letter of the law in that the prospectus should be a single document but it makes good economic sense . |
| 22 | Its tone is playful and frivolous but it makes some valid criticisms . |