Example sentences of "but [pron] make [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A walk around Aarau brings one face to face with two architectural styles that are clearly defined , quite different , but which make a genial harmony . |
| 2 | she has always been great , but she made a tremendous jump when she started recording decent songs instead of versions of old R'n' B tracks . |
| 3 | Little Maureen was agitated , but she made a nice speech . |
| 4 | Julia heard the name ‘ Jonathan ’ , but she made a determined effort not to translate the Italian words , knowing how much the two of them must need privacy . |
| 5 | Her eyelids flickered , but she made no other sign . |
| 6 | I am all right , she said , I am fine , but she made no further attempt to rise . |
| 7 | Er we got leave to use it in the playground as far as I can imagine but we made an awful division or if we did n't it pretty quickly in the class . |
| 8 | But they made a good offer . |
| 9 | But they made a great thing with the salt fish . |
| 10 | But they made a costly mistake in teaching their language to the hoipolloi . |
| 11 | Her favourite partner was her father ; neither of them could serve to save their lives and most of the balls ended up scattered on the lawn , but they made a handsome couple on the court . |
| 12 | The third K2 semi had Harbold/Newton of the USA 4th 50m from the line but they made an excellent recovery to pass Angyal/Petrovics ( Hungary ) and the Olssons of Sweden for 2nd place , 0.03 secs separating the three boats . |
| 13 | The dimensions of the flats are almost as modest as Loudon 's , but they make the maximum use of the space provided , as the key to the plan suggests . |
| 14 | But they make an important contribution to the problems of many older people . |
| 15 | She heard him draw in breath sharply , but he made no other sound . |
| 16 | But he made no double-edged comment in return , simply said , ‘ Tell me of America , McAllister . |
| 17 | Fred had been helping to rescue a family trapped in a cellar when a collapsing beam held him trapped by his left arm and leg for several hours , but he made a good recovery . |
| 18 | He could n't speak because of her hand , but he made a negative-sounding grunt . |
| 19 | The worst bit was coming over the runway for the landing when I felt that I was no longer in control , but he made a perfect landing … a great landing for anyone , but incredible for someone who had never flown before . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But he made a great mistake fleeing the country . |
| 21 | Culley thought that too , but he made a last try . |
| 22 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |
| 23 | There was surprise expressed when Downey was included in the semi-final line-up but he made an invaluable contribution in the second half through his positional sense and slick distribution . |
| 24 | Luke 's eyes flashed angrily at her sneering tone , but he made an evident effort to control himself . |
| 25 | But he made an astute appeal to the self-interest of Conservative MPs concerned about government unpopularity by making his prime focus the poll tax . |
| 26 | He exaggerates when he speaks of a ‘ deafening silence , from historians on the land question , but he makes a strong case for placing the land issue near the centre of any sound historical analysis of the period . |
| 27 | But he makes a lively film and he will be heard of again . |
| 28 | It is a pity that Michael Coe 's essay on Maya hieroglyphs is not illustrated , but he makes the interesting point that vessels appear to be labelled much as they were in the classical world of the Mediterranean . |
| 29 | Apple Computer Inc has always jealously guarded its Macintosh environment , but it made a striking gesture when it allowed IBM to build machines that would run the PowerPC version of Macintosh System when the chip is ready . |
| 30 | I do n't know what animal it was , but it made a good meal . |