Example sentences of "[noun sg] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impresario made a face . |
| 2 | The computer made a noise that was like crying . |
| 3 | It is hereby ascertained that nine pints and one choppin of the said Standard measure make a peck , and that sixteen pecks make a Boll . " |
| 4 | The porter made a face . |
| 5 | Before the delivery date , the buyer made a sub-contract to sell similar goods at 65s. per ton . |
| 6 | DISNEY shares went into freefall yesterday as its chairman made a £74 million killing on the stock market . |
| 7 | The driver made a gesture with his bandaged fingers . |
| 8 | Peter Gillman suggests that it was not until TV South West made a film ‘ A Trust Betrayed ’ , and consulted Dr Neil Ward of Surrey University , that a plausible explanation for the conflicting evidence of poisoning and the official view that it could not happen came to light . |
| 9 | So we went back in and things were patched up and Mum made a pot of tea and tried to make amends by promising to do her best to make the wedding the best in the district . |
| 10 | To visit Tyler 's Hard , even Oxford , in mourning for her sister made a kind of sense , yet the photographs proved she had not stopped there . |
| 11 | In other words , the Board made a mistake ? " |
| 12 | At that point a young executive of the National Coal Board made a suggestion . |
| 13 | M. The Board made a list of features which can attract tourists : |
| 14 | For reasons that were probably unconnected with wine-tasting , Dr. Prior 's subsequent entries became very sparse until , some years later , the chairman of the Board made a note of his own saying that he ‘ would be obliged if Dr. Prior would make more frequent entries in the book as to the general condition of the house and its inmates ’ . |
| 15 | The convivial bohemian made a round of all the bars and cafés in Nice , looking for Modigliani . |
| 16 | As police probe allegations that the controversial Arsenal striker made a V-sign at Chelsea supporters on Saturday , Wright found an unlikely ally yesterday — the FA . |
| 17 | It is high time that there was a public inquiry into the matter and that the Minister of Agriculture made a statement at the Dispatch Box . |
| 18 | He had think lips , hardly any lips at all , really , and when he smiled his mouth made a square , and in that square were lots of other smaller squares of teeth . |
| 19 | That monster made a noise like this : ‘ Hee-haw ! ’ |
| 20 | I was present when one subject adviser made a visit , first to see the head , then the head of department and finally the whole department . |
| 21 | 11.7 When an employee has been assaulted in the course of duty , the police must be called unless the manager and employee make a case for this not to be done . |
| 22 | It occurred to Karelius to wonder whether the fräulein made a practice of confiding her problems to everyone as readily as in this instance . |
| 23 | Only the wind made a sound as it streamed along the sides of the Rover and poured through the open windows . |
| 24 | Then you 'll have the attentions of a top hairdresser and make-up artist , and we 'll ask you how the programme made a difference to your life . |
| 25 | A blue sky of cobalt made a lid for every stink and fume . |
| 26 | But it was the possibility of attack from ships which concerned him most ; and he proposed that he and Moray make a survey , by boat , to consider what , if anything , might be done protectively . |
| 27 | But local practice made a union appear essential ; to have a single one — compared with the half-dozen common at other British car plants — was new . |
| 28 | Across the water the ferry cast off and its squat bulk made a bee-line for the pier . |
| 29 | Left Participants in a BGS training course in photogeology make a stop in the southern Jordan desert at a dramatic cliff section of Palaeozoic red-brown and white fluvial sandstone unconformably overlying dark grey Proterozoic igneous rocks . |
| 30 | Your language may , in reality , be somewhat more forceful than can be printed here but , however you phrase it , you have in effect made a report . |