Example sentences of "[pers pn] to make some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We may lend you any amount from £500 to £10,000 ( in units of £10 ) and , in certain circumstances , may advance 100% of the cost , although we normally expect you to make some contribution from your savings .
2 But it is up to you to make some decisions , however small , and to put them into action .
3 We 'll hand out some paper this is not to make one of these long lists or anything , it 's basically to help you to make some notes if you wi , require to do so .
4 While I 'm seeing him , by the way , I 'd like you to make some enquiries in the village .
5 And it 's just like , and they want you to make some comment on what you 've worked out , which is no problem really , is it ?
6 Claudia pleaded with him to make some defence .
7 Ask him to make some sort of crutch for me .
8 She was waiting for him to make some reply , and he said slowly : ‘ I guess you must be homesick , now Captain Dawson is n't here . ’
9 In spite of my appeals for him to make some effort to intervene with the King , who could often attain success with a father bent on violent punishment , Kareem dismissed my cries of alarm with unconcealed irritation and insisted the subject be dropped .
10 As he pushed away the empty plates she waited for him to make some comment about the meal .
11 well that 's er , er sort of oat meal , porridge , why I use it to make some oat meal crunchies
12 Acknowledging this interdependence allows us to make the courageous leap of ‘ letting in ’ the fetus , of rejecting the idea that it is simply a clump of cells , of taking it into our moral accounting and allowing it to make some claim on our attentions .
13 Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat .
14 " In the circumstances I felt that you would prefer me to make some money . "
15 Perhaps the brothers had waited in vain for me to make some retraction .
16 ‘ Would you like me to make some enquiries ? ’
17 The relatives of our electively ventilated organ donors do not feel that we act improperly ; rather , they all consider that the process of organ donation allows them to make some sense of an otherwise inexplicable loss .
18 What we 're doing is showing them the colour of light , the hydrogen spectrum that 's given off and asking them to make some measurements on it which give a clue to the nature of what is happening in hydrogen .
19 Of course , this is not even really a realistic option , because you 'd still have the impossible communication problem of getting the information out to the individuals involved in the first place , and then getting the answers back again and coordinating them to make some sort of over-all sense .
20 But one official told TODAY : ‘ The Press has been wanting us to make some statement on the marriage and Morton 's book for some time .
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