Example sentences of "i [verb] make a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I intend to make a great deal of money from this if my speculations are correct . ’ |
| 2 | After one or two formal speeches ( at which reference was made to our visit as the ‘ first short-term English course since the crushing of the Gang of Four ’ , and I tried to make a suitable reply , ) we were whisked off to the Friendship Hotel to a welcoming meal consisting of Peking duck , ancient duck 's eggs , and other good things , and I wielding our chopsticks to the best of our ability . |
| 3 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got a visitor coming at six o'clock and I want to make a good impression on him — it 's twenty to four already . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But at some point I will need to sit down and figure out if I want to make a real career shift into another area , such as politics . |
| 6 | Sometime I will need to figure out if I want to make a real career shift — such as politics . |
| 7 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 8 | I want to make a few suggestions to my right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary about small businesses . |
| 9 | Well I agree with that but I want to make a few points first of all , because poll tax was tangled up with this . |
| 10 | That 's all I ever wanted to do in boxing after I 'd learned the craft and now I want to make a little bit more ’ . |
| 11 | I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible . |
| 12 | At first it looked as though I 'd made a big mistake . |
| 13 | I hope to make a further announcement about that very shortly . |
| 14 | I happened to make a shrewd investment in ‘ seventy-eight , and a couple of years ago I sold out . |
| 15 | With Adrar now five miles away , flotsam and jetsam were increasing , so I began to make a mental inventory of all I passed — six sardine cans , two bottles , the greater part of a tyre , too many small pieces of rubber to count , a five-litre can and the cylinder head from a car engine . |
| 16 | I suppose it was just my managerial instinct coming to the fore , but I decided to make a tactical substitution . |
| 17 | I try to make a just estimate of myself as I do of everyone else , really . |
| 18 | When I say existed for ten years , er I I did make a slight mistake in that for ten years erm the village . |
| 19 | Paula explains : ‘ I did make a conscious decision about ten years ago . |
| 20 | I did make a big mistake there , though . |
| 21 | Perhaps I had made a ridiculous fuss about nothing . |
| 22 | It is as if I had made a small betrayal . |
| 23 | It certainly was n't too late to tell somebody that in fact I had made a terrible mistake and that I wanted to go home . |
| 24 | I suddenly realized I had made a serious mistake . |
| 25 | Well , for one thing , he did n't know about it and I had made a conscious decision that if I was ever to be ( he nearly says ’ become someone ’ ) . |
| 26 | They thought I had made a huge mistake in getting rid of the old collection in preference for collecting what they unanimously regarded as ‘ junk ’ . |
| 27 | I had to make a polite pretence at reluctance . |
| 28 | But I had to make a bigger adjustment to studying . |
| 29 | So I said I had to make a quick decision either I was going to go up me chain past his whatsit and into the roof , or else go thirty feet down and run right across the chamber into whichever er level they could go to . |
| 30 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |