Example sentences of "would make [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would make myself some tea , I decided as I packed away my papers , then walk over to the post office to make my call to Crispin . |
| 2 | Sometimes he would make himself useful in the kitchen by cleaning and tidying ; however , if accidentally locked in any room the Cauld lad would make a fearful mess , overturning furniture and scrabbling at the lock . |
| 3 | Omar had a young servant called Demise , and there was another fifteen-year-old lad called Yusuf Nico , who Omar said would make himself useful doing odd jobs . |
| 4 | Normally her husband would make himself comfortable beside the fire , sometimes holding their child in his arms , and make small talk as she peeled the potatoes and washed the greens , but tonight Carrie knew it would be different . |
| 5 | Child 2 : ‘ It would make everything dirty . |
| 6 | ‘ I hardly think that my demonstration , added to that fact , would make everything clear , ’ Catherine objected . |
| 7 | Do I have any additional qualities which would make me suitable ? |
| 8 | But if I had one drink of any description that 's the one thing that would make me nervous because I 'd be afraid that I 'd forget this or forget the other , so we just do n't have them at all you know . |
| 9 | The experience I would hope to gain in an Earthwatch project would make me competent enough to join hands with the necessary authorities in improving the condition of these game reserves . |
| 10 | Because I thought he could use me in his own way , and that would make me happy . |
| 11 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 12 | Most of the women he goes off with when we have a bad row are certainly not the type which would make me jealous — which , of course , is the main purpose of the exercise ! |
| 13 | I knew that his clothes , his manners and uneducated way of speaking would make me ashamed of him . |
| 14 | Mr Sewell said : ‘ It would make me seasick before we left port . ’ |
| 15 | That would make me some kind of accessory after the fact , would n't it ? ’ |
| 16 | My sister ate , but I refused , not out of sacrifice nor because I was resisting temptation ( I firmly believed that meat would make me ill , as my mother said ) , but because I knew — though this formulation is the adult 's rather than the ten-year old 's — that the price of the meal was condemnation of my mother 's oddness , and I was n't having that . |
| 17 | Saying a picture of somebody crying would make somebody gloomy is prescriptive. it could be just what a person needs to see because they would not feel alone , they could identify with it . |
| 18 | They went home via Connemara , because they wanted to , and despite the fact it would make her late to pick up Martin Parr at Aldergrove ( perhaps because of that ) . |
| 19 | That would make her innocent , would n't it ? |
| 20 | He knew the youthfulness of the clientele — hardly any could have been above thirty — and the loud music would make her uncomfortable . |
| 21 | That and the fact that she was only an assistant would make her discontented and , quite possibly , cause her to resign . |
| 22 | She supposed she 'd take over that duty , which possibly would make her unpopular back in the lab . |
| 23 | Perhaps a little money would make her festive season easier to endure . |
| 24 | Suddenly I felt that if I explained this to her , it would make her safe , impotent , like taking out a fuse or the rotor arm . |
| 25 | Small things would make her happy ; one harsh word would send her into the depths of despair . |
| 26 | And although he signed a lucrative four-year contract with Wednesday last season , he would be aware that a move to United now would make him one of the game 's highest earners . |
| 27 | That would make him 75 — though he claims to be ‘ only ’ 72 , saying he lied about his age years ago so he could join the army . |
| 28 | STUDENT John McCoy went for a spin in his car hoping it would make him tired — and plummeted 30ft down a cliff . |
| 29 | Of course , she might have another twenty years , which would make him seventy-four and what would there be left to speak of then ? |
| 30 | I mean , what would make him vulnerable ? |