Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think that I 've made great strides in the game ’ , he comments , ‘ but I 've made steady progress since I turned pro . ’ |
| 2 | P. Mainly skaters , some college people out of skating but I like to make new friends all the time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I did n't do so , but I did make another suggestion . |
| 5 | The council agreed to buy the station for — it 's about three hundred and twenty five thousand , but I want to make this point , that it is n't their intention to close the boat station . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought of that but I have made some enquiries . |
| 7 | But I need to make three pound , cos I owe Anne a bit of money do n't I ? |
| 8 | But you chose to make some rules . |
| 9 | But she had made huge progress , Lisa congratulated herself as she got ready to pack up at the end of another exhausting day . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But she did make one request . |
| 12 | ‘ But we have made some progress , Sir John . |
| 13 | Saints coach Mike McClennan said : ‘ Both teams are of equal talent but we have to make fewer mistakes than last week . ’ |
| 14 | And and I 'm all in favour as I say getting more through the letter box , it 's easier for us and it But I I think I mean I 'm quite happy to leave this now and just carry on with the bridal But we have to make this pay itself |
| 15 | But they do make sociolinguistic assumptions : in context it is clear that they also assume the early development of a socially elite variety , and we can see from the first sentence of the quotation that ‘ carefulness ’ is probably also involved . |
| 16 | But they have made startling progress since they started last November . |
| 17 | He wanted to leave now too , but he had to make some kind of contact with the dead man first . |
| 18 | And the second servant does n't do quite as well , he erm but he manages to make five talents out of his one talent . |
| 19 | But he 's made national headlines local and every other headlines that comes about regarding this issue of the merger . |
| 20 | But he 's made this carbon thing you see , it was n't for the the apostles could n't it ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But it does make perfect sense in context . |
| 23 | Often a change of publisher does wonders for an author , but it seems to make little difference to this man 's sales . |