Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb mod] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Jennifer Honey was a mild and quiet person who never raised her voice and was seldom seen to describe , but I shall make some attempt to do so a little later on . |
| 2 | Probably not , but I will make brief reference to what I sometimes think of as ‘ The Odds ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I know I ca n't , but I can make inspired guesses . ’ |
| 4 | But I can make seventy strings sound pianissimo . |
| 5 | Obviously one does not want to get involved in discussing individual cases , but I must make one exception and express the perplexity with which I read such drastically negative judgements on Zanardi 's work at Parma . |
| 6 | Well you were hungry a way down there but you would make good child . |
| 7 | I ca n't think why you want to swap the ’ and S keys but you can make any key produce any symbol you like and so swapping over is just a special case . |
| 8 | But she would make some man happy some day . |
| 9 | I have considerable respect and sympathy for my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Grantham ( Mr. Hogg ) , but we must make further efforts , even if some risk is attached , or the present conflict will spread to Bosnia and other parts of Yugoslavia and perhaps beyond that to other countries . |
| 10 | We were a large family of seven and my father worked on the railway and he only had two pounds a week , but we could make three pounds and ten shillings just at the weekend by working the clubs . |
| 11 | They have no means of assessing the reliability of automatic control systems but they can make some assessment of a skilled individual and without knowing very much about his working procedures they will trust his actions if he seems calm , competent and mature . |
| 12 | Nobody could deny Mr Gummer this small triumph , but he might make more friends if he did n't always insist on making such a meal of it . |
| 13 | The lord president tried to attract support by embarking on a reform of the council , particularly by a reduction in its fees ; but it could make little progress against the obstructionism of Secretary Ingram , who had the backing at court of the lord treasurer , Lionel Cranfield ( later Earl of Middlesex , q.v . ) . |
| 14 | Gas and air produces a lightheaded feeling that takes the edge off the pain but it can make some women feel nauseous . |