Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do remember that in every room he showed me I made sure I was near to the door , the safest point of exit if he tried anything . |
| 2 | Now the reason I I make that suggestion is that erm Policy A two for example looks at not only the erm quality of the agricultural land but also the effect of development proposals on erm the maintenance and economically viable erm farm units and so forth . |
| 3 | Well yes , I mean th this is certainly the was born in fact I , I commented on this in my in my book when I was talking about this book before group psychology I I made one or two erm fairly erm critical comments about , about group , group , group psychotherapy . |
| 4 | Okay basically you say that , well I I made most of mine up , erm like I said , but his erratic behaviour , the way he gets so frustrated so , you know , really fast I mean do n't use these words cos this is actually what I said |
| 5 | I I made some stock the other day |
| 6 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 7 | The international managerial bourgeoisie , of which I made some conceptual criticisms above , is defined as : ‘ a socially comprehensive category , encompassing the entrepreneurial elite , managers of firms , senior state functionaries , leading politicians , members of the learned professions , and persons of similar standing in all spheres of society ’ ( Becker and Sklar , 1987 , p.7 ) . |
| 8 | ( 55 ) I found a bottle with which I made numerous marks on the ground surrounding our tents and a few yards into the jungle , as far as I dared venture . |
| 9 | Your accountant relies on the information and explanations which you make available . |
| 10 | You come from a world in which you make all the rules . ’ |
| 11 | If I hear of one more occasion on which you make these allegations I shall feel it my duty to pass them on to Connon myself . |
| 12 | Which we made good margins on . |
| 13 | For years we had no telephone , and the house was lit in our time by acetylene gas which we made each evening in the pigsty . |
| 14 | It is known in the House that the reality is a choice between many hours in Committee characterised by filibuster and slow progress , and a number of hours in Committee in which we make reasonable progress . |
| 15 | We do this in several ways , including for example , our creative management skills course , which won a a national training award in nineteen eighty-eight , and which we make available , of course , to managers within the voluntary sector . |
| 16 | Iron Age man built a massive earthwork here , now known as Danes Dyke , and the early settlers also found a ready supply of flints in the chalk cliffs from which they made many of their primitive tools . |
| 17 | Librarians recognize the need for an appropriate balance to be maintained within the materials which they make available to reflect differing extremes or shades of opinion on matters which might be thought to be contentious . |
| 18 | Moderator the erm overture which we passed into an act er in the last sentence of section three says the names of such children , that 's those children who have been admitted to erm communion as children , shall be admitted to the communion roll of the congregation when they have made public profession of their faith that is , when they reach the point at which they make that normal statement and the my understanding would be people whose names are on the communion roll . |
| 19 | AT first they build temporary shelters by weaving a kind of palm branch into matting from which they make little houses . |
| 20 | Would the contribution which they make relative to each other be altered were the characteristics of the boundary between them less marked , no trees , no substantial hedge ? |
| 21 | I have read his speech in this House , in which he made most of those points , and some of his contributions in the Water Bill Committee , in which he made other points which have been well answered by my Hon. Friend the Minister of State . |
| 22 | However , aided by an outrageous fluke in frame four from which he made 75 , Parrott levelled at 2-2 . |
| 23 | Waller 's research interests started in the emerging field of electro-physiology , in which he made useful contributions to the study of fatigue in muscle and the nature of cardiac potentials . |
| 24 | Miller won 41 per cent of the total vote , a proportion which reflected the skill with which he conducted a campaign in which he made good use of the experience gained during his 16 years as lieutenant-governor . |
| 25 | In 1950 Hoffnung began a career as a broadcaster , during the course of which he made many appearances on the radio as both raconteur and panel member . |
| 26 | From his vantage point in Worcester House he became involved in the speculative buying of soldiers ' bills , with which he made fifteen purchases of Crown land , mostly on behalf of other men . |
| 27 | Tomorrow Gooch is due to bequeath the bat with which he made 333 against India in the Test here two years ago to the Lord 's museum . |
| 28 | Graham Gooch has presented to the Lord 's Museum the bat with which he made 333 against India in 1990 . |
| 29 | Wyatt 's subsequent work was primarily as a country-house architect and ‘ improver ’ , although he competed unsuccessfully for a number of major public commissions and in 1816 published a Prospectus of a Design for Various Improvements in the Metropolis , in which he made radical proposals for replanning the West End . |
| 30 | Jack Smith remembers one lecture Minton gave during which he made riveting use of a hip flask , saying ‘ Excuse me one minute ’ as he drank from it . |