Example sentences of "[prep] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got ta make that cake have n't I ? |
| 2 | I said then you 've got ta make that claim . |
| 3 | got ta make bloody room ! |
| 4 | Got ta make sure Grub has n't nicked anything he 's a dodgy little geezer . |
| 5 | I know right I 've got ta make some pastry |
| 6 | that like fixes on to her T-shirt , and twenty tapes and she 's got ta make twenty recordings ' worth , twenty tapes ' worth |
| 7 | Can you assure us that the contents of this letter were such as make such action reasonable ? ’ |
| 8 | After making unsuccessful enquiries to find the driver in the immediate area , these facts can be used to prove the unattended element . |
| 9 | The Professional Association of Teachers has produced details of a particularly disturbing case in which a teacher in the independent sector was summarily dismissed very rapidly after making serious allegations against a colleague . |
| 10 | The carrier who , after making reasonable enquiries on the matter , wishes to sell the goods , should consider taking legal advice before putting in hand the sale . |
| 11 | Homeowners will have less money to spend in their pockets after making higher mortgage repayments and will be even less inclined to borrow at today 's high rates . |
| 12 | Stocks held by the UK Group Companies are to be valued at the lower of cost ( including all relevant overhead expenditure and external sub-contractor costs of processing stock ) and net realisable value [ excluding freight costs ] after making due allowance for obsolete items , slow moving items , unusable items , unsaleable items and nonstandard items . |
| 13 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 14 | The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , Nicholas Ridley , resigned on July 14 after making controversial remarks about the European Commission and Germany 's role in Europe . |
| 15 | John Major must have pondered that question several times in past months as various Cabinet ministers depended on his support after making curious decisions on public or private issues . |
| 16 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |
| 17 | After making five payments I received another card demanding higher payments and for them to be paid in four instalments . |
| 18 | His axing is a surprise after making five centuries this summer . |
| 19 | Jones , fined £500 after making obscene gestures to QPR players in April 1989 , was twice charged by the FA last season . |
| 20 | After making first animal feed ( korm ) and only later cabbage soup ( shchi ) for the family , she may finally turn to the work that occupies the womenfolk from November until Lent — spinning flax from that blue-flowered , frail-leaved plant plucked by the root in handfuls in the August of 1921 . |
| 21 | After making considerable impact with his American research , he announced on a World in Action television programme that the results of his American research held just as strongly for Britain . |
| 22 | Bayfield and England captain Will Carling are playing only after making near-miraculous recoveries from injuries against Otago in Dunedin last weekend . |
| 23 | However , it is not very satisfactory from the point of view of attempts to construct a complete theory because it does not make any predictions of the values of the finite remainders left after making infinite subtractions . |
| 24 | Hardly a day passed without my Information Officer , U Khin Maung , interviewing some editor , after making careful enquiries about the accuracy of the reports . |
| 25 | To add to his case , John Holloway has been revealed as the chairman of a company which was fined £45,000 in 1990 after making false declarations in connection with applications for vehicle excise licences . |
| 26 | And on the day computer giants IBM announced six hundred redundancies , the country 's biggest independent computer maker sacked a hundred and twenty people , just a year after making big profits . |
| 27 | After making several trips to Headquarters in Lincoln 's Inn and each time letting the bus take her on to Aldgate East , she managed to resign from the movement . |
| 28 | After making huge rises in VAT in the past 12 years , what are the Government 's plans to make further increases in VAT ? |
| 29 | In 1983/84 , it came close to collapse after making heavy losses on loans to an Indian commodity group named Esal , which was involved in the subsequent collapse of Johnson Matthey . |
| 30 | But after making this admission we must go deeper into the question . |