Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to make [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was in charge of ‘ Fluon ’ for a couple of years and I failed to make any impact whatsoever on that particular problem . |
| 2 | I tried to make some enquiries . ’ |
| 3 | so he said I did , I tried to make some in microwave and he says it turned out like sludge |
| 4 | I hear what you say , and I hesitate to make any further comment on that , given the current climate , but let's set about just examining the shape of the difficulty at the moment , and see what we can as it were immediately deal with ourselves , and what we can try and persuade other people to help us to know . |
| 5 | I was not asking for a debate and I want to make that quite clear . |
| 6 | It was it 's a previous budget decision , I want to make that point , it was made before the last budget , and this has been a sort of a year of negotiations , that 's the first point and |
| 7 | ‘ I want to make all my defences in Britian , ’ said the 27-year-old Lewis , already regarded by many as the uncrowned champion after his two-round demolition of Razor Ruddock at Earl 's Court in the early hours of Sunday morning . |
| 8 | ‘ But when I 'm champion I want to make all my defences in England . |
| 9 | ‘ But when I 'm champion I want to make all my defences in England . |
| 10 | ‘ Howard Baker , ’ says Bill Mishkin , ‘ I want to make this thing . |
| 11 | " Okay , boys , now I want to make this absolutely clear . |
| 12 | Orton told Ken : ‘ I want to make this detective much more you . ’ |
| 13 | The council agreed to buy the station for — it 's about three hundred and twenty five thousand , but I want to make this point , that it is n't their intention to close the boat station . |
| 14 | I have only two minutes and I want to make some more points . |
| 15 | Region I want to make some comments about the UNISON er section of the report , because er I think it 's concerning me that er we 're basically not getting our act together . |
| 16 | I hope to make enough money as a model to live well . |
| 17 | I hope to make some progress with this next week . |
| 18 | Which principle you choose to sacrifice depends on the answer to the question : " What words should I use to make this drill as effective as possible ? " |
| 19 | This time the press and the media were there and I declined to make any comment on the negotiations . |
| 20 | Will I have to make any adjustments ? |
| 21 | Three years ago , when I started to make some real money as opposed to all that other stuff I 'd been making , my father hit bad trouble on the tables and the track and he … |
| 22 | I struggled to make some sense of this new and appalling complication . |
| 23 | I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea . |
| 24 | I 've worked with children in various settings , mainly in secondary school , and in recent years I 've worked with students , so when I try to make that sort of categorization I find it very difficult . |
| 25 | In Chapter 10 I try to make some suggestions about the form and content of a practical politics of reproduction which could help in the mobilization of the social forces necessary for the implementation of a programme of structural social change . |
| 26 | I left them together while I went to make some coffee , and when I came back into the room , Shanti was saying , ‘ Patsy , where do I get my big feet from ? |
| 27 | when I went to make some jam tarts . |
| 28 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 29 | It all reminded me of what I received when I dared to make some mild criticism of the habits of cyclists and for much the same reason . |
| 30 | And I had to make all these er computations out and er I made fifty that I thought nobody could pick . |