Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 2 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 3 | If we 're going to go in and make a positive impact in certain parts of the region , erm then both my staff and myself and our colleagues who are working in the arts in the region have got to pull even harder together to make sure that we can make the partnership between us bureaucrats and the artist really be as effective as possible for the broadest range of the community . |
| 4 | While developers move in and make a killing . |
| 5 | Then your Mam used to make p pastry and put these beastlings in and make a beastling custard . |
| 6 | Can you help out ? he 's paying in gold and you can melt it down and make a new battleaxe that will never go rusty . |
| 7 | First sit down and make a list of your plus and minus points . |
| 8 | Step down and make a delicate traverse left to move up into a recess and small ledge . |
| 9 | They have nothing better to do than go down and make a nuisance of themselves to people who are peacefully going about their own affairs . |
| 10 | The section then dived down to attack , Yellow I ( Jeffries ) going in on the starboard quarter and I dived down and made a quarter-astern attack from below , opening fire at 400 yards and closing to 50 yards , giving the e/a three bursts of three seconds each . |
| 11 | She had flattened the grass , burrowed down and made a cosy little nest for herself . |
| 12 | Because it obliges you to sit down and make a careful observation of the chosen subject , you discover so much more than by just pointing a camera . |
| 13 | So please let's find somewhere we can sit down and make a plan . ’ |
| 14 | To this end it can be quite a good idea to sit down and make a list of all the social activities you would like to enjoy if you were free to do so -such as visiting and entertaining friends , going to the theatre , cinema , concerts , evening classes , study groups , church activities and special interest clubs , as well as the occasional holiday . |
| 15 | So far , man has described and named about 700,000 of them and there are certainly three or four times as many still unnamed , awaiting the attentions of anyone who has the time , patience and knowledge to sit down and make a systematic review of them . |
| 16 | Perhaps he should abandon thoughts of privateering ; perhaps he should settle down and make a home . |
| 17 | I mean basically you say the bloke says we 're going to sit down and make a decision tonight |
| 18 | The goal is made concrete by writing it down and making a commitment to it . |
| 19 | She settles back down and makes a gesture for Bill to lie on her lap again . |
| 20 | A white knight could come along and make a more friendly offer , but this has n't happened yet . |
| 21 | He did not bother to look up when Corbett and Ranulf were ushered in but made a gesture for them to sit on the bench alongside the table while he continued noisily with his meal . |
| 22 | Colin Parry breaks down while making a speech during his son Timothy 's funeral yesterday . |
| 23 | If parents have managed to instil in their child a sense of his own worth as an individual , then , whatever knocks that child may encounter as an adult , he will have the inner confidence which will enable him to pull through and make a success of his life — success in this context having nothing to do with money but with achieving one 's aims as an individual , whatever they may be . |
| 24 | When a glass cutter wants to cut glass , he does not bother to cut right through but makes a shallow scratch on the surface after which the glass breaks easily along the line of the scratch . |
| 25 | After my mother died he decided to stay on and make a living hunting , so I 've grown up here with Annamese boys and girls of my own age . |
| 26 | George Albert Smith was later of course erm to come on and make a big name , a world name for himself as the inventor of the first colour process , a very simple , two-colour process , but it was invented by him in Brighton , and it was the first world colour process . |
| 27 | Twenty minutes into the game , he jolted a disc in his back and went off to see his replacement , Rob Wainwright , come on and make a name for himself . |
| 28 | As long as we feel we can sell them on and make a profit for the NECCR then we will be happy . |
| 29 | The second is : every command you give must be broken only by you , by which I mean do not tell your dog to sit then go off and make a cup of tea and forget all about him . |
| 30 | Er and rush off and make a new will as soon as you can as well as . |