Example sentences of "would [vb infin] make [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we are appealing for things to sell at the car boot sales , or maybe you would prefer to make a small donation to our funds . |
| 2 | Under gentle pressure he conceded that Riddle had mentioned the possibility of marriage and said that in this circumstance he would want to make a fresh will . ’ |
| 3 | I would need to make a two-into-one jack socket for the speaker — would this cause problems ? |
| 4 | Music and horse racing are Quinn 's great passions outside football and when his playing days are over he would like to make a new career on the turf . |
| 5 | I would like to make a slight amendment . |
| 6 | Well I think er what I 'll do because Stuart who 's the C E O rather happens to be with us er I think I 'll ask Stuart if he would like to make a few remarks . |
| 7 | I would like to make a few comments , as a mainly urban cyclist who also rides for recreation and covers about 9,000 miles a year . |
| 8 | If at the end you feel there are points we have n't covered and I forget to invite you , would you say you would like to make a concluding statement . |
| 9 | Within the proviso therefore , that short-term visitors only may be offered to individual area secretaries , I would like to make the following proposals for which I am indebted to area staff colleagues for their help : |
| 10 | To conclude on such a vast subject as this is not easy but I would like to make the following points . |
| 11 | In response to the letters of Derek Edwards and Maurice Vassie in the Aug/Sept issue of Amnesty , I would like to make the following points : |
| 12 | President in seconding the report I would like to make the following points to our safety representatives who have to bear the responsibility for improving conditions at the workplace for our members . |
| 13 | I would like to make the following points : |
| 14 | But he transforms whatever he touches ; the English words alone would suffice to make the English madrigal different from the Italian , and the numerous monosyllables give a peculiar crispness to such genre-pictures as ‘ Ho ! who comes here all along ? ’ and the canzonet ‘ Arise , get up my dear ’ . |
| 15 | Apparently this was the wont of the original Lazy Lawrence , a lackadaisical labourer who would avoid making an extra trip if he could . |
| 16 | ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things . |
| 17 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 18 | It was a fuss about nothing , and I greatly doubt whether anyone other than Randolph Churchill would have made a major issue of it . |
| 19 | It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics . |
| 20 | Even so , it may be doubted that he would have made a greater impact upon the course of history . |
| 21 | Sam would have made a perfect lawyer . |
| 22 | No doubt he would have made a nasty remark , and she did n't need to hear any more of them . |
| 23 | Good Money would have made a good short , with a budget of , say , £75,000 . |
| 24 | He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist . |
| 25 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
| 26 | He himself could always eat ; he would have made a good soldier . |
| 27 | No , neither did I. Would have made a good headline , would n't it … |
| 28 | This village blacksmith was not a ‘ mighty man ’ at all ; in fact , he was much smaller than Micky , his twelve-year-old son , who would have made a good model for the Fat Boy in the Pickwick Papers . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you think you would have made a good Empress ? ’ |
| 30 | IT 'S a feat that his circus act father would have made a million bucks from , but how could Mr Major-Ball have foreseen that everything little John touched would turn into 100% pure horse-dung ? |