Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm er good place to make friends but at any college you make friends |
| 2 | Using sleeve fabric and velvet she made cuffs , which she stitched on and fastened with buttons . |
| 3 | If we are conditioned by fear we make things worse . |
| 4 | During his years on the Continent he made friendships among many of the most eminent men of the day , including Edward Gibbon , Horatio Nelson ( Viscount Nelson ) , Sir William Hamilton and his wife , Richard Payne Knight [ qq.v . ] , |
| 5 | In practice it makes mistakes all the time but Horizon showed its English as flawless . |
| 6 | ‘ Every country has another nationality they make fun of . |
| 7 | ‘ No wonder it makes people sick , ’ he said . |
| 8 | As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I will pay you twice the hourly fee you make modelling — with a guarantee of four months ’ wages , no matter how quickly the Princess recovers . |
| 10 | If I could just pick up the point you made Councillor , I think that at the A C C discussions , there was a great deal of cognition and understanding of the need to consult with staff side , in the run up to the beginning of formal consultations . |
| 11 | I mean I was interested a a a another very interesting point you made Mike at the beginning , you said that is there , had there been studies that show the standards of French industrial relations did you say that , that this has kind of become a pattern for industrial relations conflict in France . |
| 12 | Over the piano you make love with ! |
| 13 | At this point we make use of the homogeneity and isotropy of the space . |
| 14 | During the Second World War he made propaganda and training films for the US army . |
| 15 | During his examination he makes notes on a pad . |
| 16 | This impotence is inherent in the Keynesian approach to policy and not merely a feature of a specific version of that approach ; for by its very nature it makes government influences on aggregate demand predictable in that it links government policy changes to the current or past state of the economy . |
| 17 | When we had the ball we made Celtic work . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You might have guessed it if you 'd remembered that night we made love . |
| 19 | After a while they make adobe bricks and build their houses by stages , one room followed by another . |
| 20 | On shower day he made Frank strip off all his clothes before going to the bathroom . |
| 21 | The next day he made enquiries about the journey . |
| 22 | Rachel sat there in the back of the Mercedes , unable to give him the stinging retort on her lips because she knew he would do what he promised , and she had a profound fear that the minute he made love to her fully the feelings she was desperately trying to suppress would keel over and completely overwhelm her , leaving her not just vulnerable but absolutely devastated by the reality of what they were . |
| 23 | When a haemophiliac wants to become a butcher it makes sense to discourage him . |
| 24 | After a while he made tea and brought it back to bed and they talked in a way she never could have with Mike , or anyone she knew , about Garstang 's book on the songs of birds and about Haydn 's Bird Quartet and Wagner 's bird music in Siegfried . |
| 25 | In my discussions with the principal I made reference to the words of Jesus recorded in Matthew 19 v.4 and Mark 10 v.6 . |
| 26 | Okay just before we go off Peter 's erm the first comment you made Peter was about ten K Gs of |
| 27 | For instance if I take the sentence ‘ I woke up late this morning ’ the items present in the sequence are obviously different from one another ; but according to Saussurean theory we make sense of this sentence by implicitly relating it to items which are absent from the sequence but equivalent to those in it , for instance ‘ You went down early that afternoon ’ . |
| 28 | The shows that top the ratings are soft , for example we make Rupert the Bear and that gets a 60 per cent share of the kids ’ audience . ’ |
| 29 | To rapturous applause it made $1.6 million , a world record for any clock at auction . |
| 30 | The coming of the rains brought no physical relief to the besieged but in one respect it made things worse ; the smell from the decaying offal and from the corpses of men and animals became intolerable and hung constantly , undisturbed by wind , as a foul miasma over the fortifications . |