Example sentences of "[noun] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millwall boss Mick McCarthy made an approach for the striker three weeks ago , but was given the cold shoulder . |
| 2 | Watching a small , speckled lizard sunning himself on the trunk of one of the trees , Luce made an attempt to push her uneasy fancies aside and fulfil her half of the bargain . |
| 3 | In its first full financial year , RBIC made a profit of more than £4 million but even better results are promised . |
| 4 | ‘ Not long after , the Athenians made a peace with the Spartans and their allies for thirty years , giving up Nisaia , Pegai , Troizen and Achaia , their possessions in the Peloponnese ’ ( Thuc. i.115.1 ) . |
| 5 | Aged nineteen , never kissed back and greener than Kermit , I was sipping Crème de Menthe in the basement of a jazz club , when an elderly roué ( as in twenty-two ) from the Oxford Union made a pronouncement which made my spine stiffen . |
| 6 | The impresario made a face . |
| 7 | David Macdonald made a series of quota quickies before going on to a larger budget with the striking comedy-thriller This Man is News ( 1938 ) , and Michael Powell built a reputation as a director of energetic quota films before making his mainstream début with Edge of the World ( 1937 ) , about the depopulation of a remote island in the Shetlands . |
| 8 | About 30 B.C. a poor young man from Babylon made an impression on the great rabbis of Jerusalem . |
| 9 | The computer made a noise that was like crying . |
| 10 | ‘ Sheep make a noise . |
| 11 | Despite the lack of international judicial uniformity on several important issues , the Hague Rules made a signal contribution to international trade . |
| 12 | TWO alert cops made a drug bust — and seized cannabis plants growing at the POLICE STATION . |
| 13 | Some authorities made a point of saying that they did not have a training programme because they depended on courses that presented themselves , e.g. : ‘ We always hope to send staff on courses as they are advertised ’ . |
| 14 | It is hereby ascertained that nine pints and one choppin of the said Standard measure make a peck , and that sixteen pecks make a Boll . " |
| 15 | Two other defenders made a grab for Okoye but missed . |
| 16 | Lucie made a lunge for Gabriel 's wrist and pulled at him . |
| 17 | Mrs Barrantes said in Biarritz : ‘ Sarah made a mistake going to St Tropez with her children and Mr Bryan . |
| 18 | De Villiers made a noise in his throat that sounded suspiciously like smothered laughter . |
| 19 | The porter made a face . |
| 20 | Amitai Etzioni made a study of authority and motivation in differing environments . |
| 21 | Jenny Weston , 34 , claimed Colin Webb made a barrage of unrelenting sexual demands and once pinned her down on a hotel bed . |
| 22 | Kiku made a face . |
| 23 | Mandeville made a face . |
| 24 | Was I supposed to fall in a heap when the great Prince Nicolo Sabatini made a pass at me ? ’ |
| 25 | ( In 1874 , whilst at her favourite residence at Osborne in the Isle of Wight , Queen Victoria made a number of trips to the post office at nearby Whippingham where she would stay for some hours comforting a dying deaf woman , Mrs. Elizabeth Tuffield , nee Groves . |
| 26 | The Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the powers conferred thereby had not expired . ’ |
| 27 | unless renewed , expire fifteen months after the passing of this Resolution or at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company , whichever is the earlier , save that the Company may prior to such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the power conferred hereby had not expired . ’ |
| 28 | Before the delivery date , the buyer made a sub-contract to sell similar goods at 65s. per ton . |
| 29 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 30 | DISNEY shares went into freefall yesterday as its chairman made a £74 million killing on the stock market . |