Example sentences of "but [pers pn] make [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But I make three best friends .
2 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 .
3 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 ) .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 :
7 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 .
8 Its tone is playful and frivolous but it makes some valid criticisms .
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