Example sentences of "[vb past] make a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 2 | He unwrapped the handkerchiefs , contrived to get a good amount of mud down his boots and pretended to make a bad landing from the monkey rope and was dispatched to the sanatorium with a suspected sprain . |
| 3 | Initially these are single-point characters , each designed to make a particular contribution to the course of the story , but during the narrative the lads , all around seventeen or eighteen , act with a degree of independence which lends a new depth to the book . |
| 4 | She 'd made a helpless gesture with one beautifully manicured hand . |
| 5 | In fact , he 'd made a real scene about it yesterday . |
| 6 | So you 'd made a verbal contract over the phone with a lady who you found living on the premises so you had every right to believe that she owned the furniture . |
| 7 | The Judge said they 'd made a strong case about how they 'd be affected by noise from the road . |
| 8 | The Judge said they 'd made a strong case about how they 'd be affected by noise from the road . |
| 9 | Of course , she 'd made a big fuss about not having a Brownie ‘ Nuform ’ , but she calmed down when Mum let her wear her new blue party dress . |
| 10 | ‘ Stella said you 'd made a huge difference to the place . ’ |
| 11 | Ablett argued furiously with referee Ken Redfern that he 'd made a clean challenge on the inspirational McAllister . |
| 12 | His name was Roger , and he 'd made a few stabs at conversation in the course of the night . |
| 13 | I happened to make a shrewd investment in ‘ seventy-eight , and a couple of years ago I sold out . |
| 14 | After a four month stay with her brother in Zambia , she returned to make a new career in nursing . |
| 15 | With nothing more to recommend it than its quality , Guinness began to make a friendly invasion of many parts of the globe . |
| 16 | Though one of Minton 's and Ayrton 's designs for Macbeth had been included among other Shakespeare illustrations in the December 1942 issue of Penguin New Writing , it was not until 1945 that work by Minton began to make a regular appearance in its pages . |
| 17 | Thereafter , Franco began to make a rhetorical distinction between the war against the United Kingdom and the United States , in which Spain took no part , and the war against the Soviet Union , which , in Franco 's view , was a new crusade against communism , of which Nationalist Spain had already fought the first battle during her Civil War . |
| 18 | With Adrar now five miles away , flotsam and jetsam were increasing , so I began to make a mental inventory of all I passed — six sardine cans , two bottles , the greater part of a tyre , too many small pieces of rubber to count , a five-litre can and the cylinder head from a car engine . |
| 19 | She began to make a mental list of words she hated . |
| 20 | I cut down a big tree , and then began to make a long hole in it . |
| 21 | He took time to settle and it was not until the second half that he began to make a positive contribution to the match . |
| 22 | It must be appreciated that , although the population of the world is about a million times larger than the population of a large village , the model needed to make a reasonable study of some major world trends and problems is not necessarily much larger or more complex than the village model . |
| 23 | At the end of the conference the participants decided to make a collective appeal to Boris Yeltsin which warns of the extreme seriousness of the situation and of the danger that government funding for Russia 's museums could die out . |
| 24 | Now 26 he decided to make a major leap into white collar work . |
| 25 | In 1947 Claud decided to make a complete break with his past and they settled near her family home in Youghal in a derelict Georgian mansion belonging to an American policeman which they rented for £150 a year . |
| 26 | While waiting for a reply , Franco decided to make a direct appeal to Hitler on the Nazi Party network , through certain members of the German business community in Morocco . |
| 27 | Also , we decided to make a stylistic change on this record and I see a lot of other metal bands following suit . |
| 28 | After leaving Devon the family had gone to Lancashire for work in the mills there and later started to make a new life for themselves in South Africa . |
| 29 | Last year Intel opened a design centre and started to make a new line of microprocessors in Penang . |
| 30 | ONE OF FIVE children who father , a bookie , died young , Lenny McLean grew up in one of the tougher parts of London 's East End , left school at fifteen and , as a young man , started to make a few quid in the unlicensed boxing matches which were becoming increasingly popular at the time . |