Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pers pn] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | you swing , you multiply it around the council it makes a difference |
2 | The first voice made a request for permission to use the campsite area for a group of boys during the next school break , and after stopping the machine she made a note of the name and address to which she would send confirmation . |
3 | Will you let me go again on the basis I made a cock-up the first time round . |
4 | On the platform he made a movement of deference to her , with open hand held out . |
5 | When they finally entered the ground they made a dash for the lift . |
6 | For the sauce you make a roux , taking a knob of butter , an equivalent weight of flour and the saffron , and dissolving them in a bain-marie ; then add some of the warm mussel juice slowly , stirring all the time . |
7 | At the peak it made a fortune — not from building houses or office blocks but from land inflation . |
8 | For the west front of the church he made a pair of decorated bronze doors , of which it was judged that ‘ as he surpassed all others in other works , in this work he wonderfully surpassed himself . ’ |
9 | At the door he makes a smile . |
10 | It was a day in which the Queen was anxious to leave the past behind and to the end she made a point of meeting Argentinian soldiers who form part of the U N contingent here . |
11 | Erm the first thing I 'm , I I would like t t to draw out is that at the end of the year we made a profit of a hundred sixty thousand pounds . |
12 | It is , however , the way he makes a connection between anthropology and linguistics that makes his programme unusual : |
13 | At the time he made a report to the then Keeper of the Indian Section , Robert Skelton , who passed it on to the Indian authorities . |