Example sentences of "[pron] make [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the council 's housing department is asking tenants thinking of moving on to help them make the most of the housing stock by giving early notice when they intend to leave . |
| 2 | Having endorsed this as a learning technique , let me make a few recommendations and observations of my own and list my personal ‘ top ten ’ . |
| 3 | Before I regret the temporary arrival of my better nature , you 'd better let me make a few calls and see what I can do to get you home today . ’ |
| 4 | Erm let me make a few announcements erm firstly Longmans the publishers are producing a large and they hope definitive dictionary of the English language and in aid of this they have asked various universities to produce examples , recorded examples of academic monologue and we 've agreed to cooperate and that is what this little piece of electronic wizardry is in aid of in case you were wondering . |
| 5 | Can I make the same point as well please ? |
| 6 | ‘ I made no such suggestion , my lord , ’ protested Aycliffe . |
| 7 | I made no fewer than three telephone calls . |
| 8 | She never revealed her own secrets to me but then after a while I made no more enquiries — I did n't want to do anything to lose her . ’ |
| 9 | Would you mind if I made a few housing enquiries for you ? |
| 10 | In a survey on shopping which I made a few years ago one of my student interviewers was questioning an old lady about the grocer 's shop she used . |
| 11 | I made a few inquiries . |
| 12 | ‘ I made a few enquiries an' it 's up fer rent , ’ he called back . |
| 13 | When they fished me out I made a few phone calls , |
| 14 | I made a few suggestions , creating chances , scoring goals , but it did not get through . |
| 15 | Now that was the point I made a few moments ago . |
| 16 | I made a few as samples and then she could see that they were n't right so we did n't use them in the end . |
| 17 | ‘ Rain , after I rang you this morning I made a few more enquiries and then went and told Barbara she was to come with me . ’ |
| 18 | Er er , I 've , er I just I 'm just saying that , er , that , that last year er , when I made a few remarks that they were misquoted by Reuters and we did leave the meeting and the share price dropped by er , several P and we had to send out a correcting statement so this year we 've taken the precaution of issuing a press release er , at the same time as er , er , I 'm making these remarks so I hope at least they wo n't be misinterpreted . |
| 19 | It 's going to cost you under thirty eight pounds , so I 've got a little bit of wei , leeway if I made a few mistakes . |
| 20 | ‘ When I got your letter , I made a few enquiries and discovered that you are intending to practise from Broom House . |
| 21 | Well , you know , I think it was a kind of sports bag or something and I thought oh I 'll go along with that and the other , I mean I had heard of them before and I made a few enquiries and they said , you know , you you were quite quality company so I thought |
| 22 | Yes , I made a few mistakes at first , like cutting up their slices of salami to the thickness of a sliced loaf . |
| 23 | er because I said I , I only phone Marion once a month and phone mum probably about once a fortnight , I do n't like to leave it any longer and erm and I said I know I made a few extra calls over Christmas , but I said I really do n't know . |
| 24 | Of course , I made the latter up though I am still very proud of them ; a mailed fist , middle finger extended , and underneath the Latin motto ‘ In dubito curre ’ which , roughly translated , means ‘ In doubt , run ’ . |
| 25 | My story is similar to Annie 's in that I made the same mistake and thought of my granddaughter as a substitute child . |
| 26 | I made the same mistake that I make , year after year . |
| 27 | I made the same point in the previous chapter but it may help if I give a concrete example . |
| 28 | I made the same mistake . |
| 29 | I made the most of this and did lots of work and piano and clarinet practice . |
| 30 | If I make a few constructive points , it will be looked on as a Liverpudlian poking his nose in . |