Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could think only of how badly I wanted to make love to you again , with the sunshine on your beautiful face . ’ |
| 2 | She was quite happy to let me do my survey and eventually I had to make my excuses or she would have gone on chatting all day . |
| 3 | I 've got a table somewhere I 've made . |
| 4 | ‘ Pa , if only I 'd made it up with you , ’ she cried . |
| 5 | She had lain awake the night before , thinking , if only I 'd made Dan stay . |
| 6 | But perhaps I desire to make my peace with the man who did . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well , you know , perhaps I 've made a mistake . |
| 8 | Perhaps I had made a ridiculous fuss about nothing . |
| 9 | But obviously I had to make a choice as neither of them wanted a threesome friendship . |
| 10 | So I had to make the speech best as I could and it went down all right I think . |
| 11 | One for only ninety nine P , so I had to make the money up they got |
| 12 | so I had to make conversation then I said erm so how are the old Colts B doing and he goes er had a bit of a junior |
| 13 | We 've assumed , we have n't got any information given to us to tell us where so I 've made an assumption we 've made an assumption that |
| 14 | Yes , you must n't re-freeze things , so I try to make the sandwiches |
| 15 | Where 's the corkscrew ? ’ and he 'd answered — dead straight — ‘ What do you want a corkscrew for ? ’ and so I 'd made an excuse and left quickly . |
| 16 | So I have made a point of looking you up . ’ |
| 17 | So I have to make decisions as I go along as to which points need to be spelled out , which of them can be stated sparely , or which of them do not need to be mentioned at all but can be left to be inferred . |
| 18 | So you John now Jonathan he 's only fifteen , I know he looks in his twenties , but he 's only fifteen and he 's done a lot of homework so it makes him late and it makes him uncomfortable and he 's fidgety because he knows he 's got to disturb us when he goes out , he does n't does n't enjoy disturbing us , so I have to make that clear to you . |
| 19 | So I have to make sure it 's measured right . |
| 20 | So I started making some calls of my own . |
| 21 | I did n't see why he should get away with it so I decided to make his day for him . |
| 22 | So I decided to make myself a boat . |
| 23 | ‘ When Chelsea signed me Ian Porterfield told me that if I got in the side he would n't drop me so I want to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 24 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 25 | ‘ But perhaps ye have made a mistake and it is really the Sicilian woman … ’ |
| 26 | However much she ate made no difference to her shapely figure . |
| 27 | I heard , when I started looking into the project at first that erm , the women used to do most of the weaving but you do n't actually do the weaving now , and they used to basically you know make up the , the larger part of the work force , is that the case now ? |
| 28 | Perhaps she 'd made the wrong choice , after all , she was thinking . |
| 29 | Perhaps she had made it up altogether , and there had been nobody , no phantom , no sleep-walker , nothing . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps … perhaps you 've made a mistake ? ’ |