Example sentences of "do [be] make [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went past this woman 's door , her name was Emily , and it was like I was passing a huge vulva , so big it has a desk inside , and I decided that what I should do is make an actual photocopy of my dick , in fact two copies , one before coming , one after , and leave these , along with an asterisk memo , on her desk . ’ |
| 2 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 3 | The best we can do is to make a close study of code switching and hope that it will provide an overall framework for understanding how the two perceived varieties , Creole and English , interact in conversation . |
| 4 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 5 | What the treaty did not do was to make the two kingdoms of France and England one ; they were to remain separate , each with its own legal and administrative identity . |
| 6 | What the MacMahon Act did do was to make the British programme slower and more expensive ; and from the wider standpoint of the Western Alliance , it led to unnecessary duplication of effort . |