Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone wants to make a move on Morgan , the would-be predator will have to move before the Willis Faber meeting . |
| 2 | Commenting on the scope of a scheme that can give every farmer a stake in conservation , he said : ‘ If someone wants to make a 20 metre-wide headland , he can run it for a mile and still use up only eight acres of his set-aside land . ’ |
| 3 | 1982 ) ; to describe the Quileute demonstratives one needs to make a distinction between objects visible and not visible to the speaker ( Anderson & Keenan , in press ) ; and so on . |
| 4 | But the real wonder of pop biopics is that no one has made a movie about Jim Morrison before now ( The Doors opens on March 15 ) . |
| 5 | It is always so annoying when one has made a particular effort to check a point and something still goes wrong . |
| 6 | It may sound strange to be pleased to discover that one has made a mistake , but it is , in fact , one of the most exciting things for a social scientist to discover — one really feels that one has found out something that went beyond what one might have expected through ‘ common sense ’ reasoning ! |
| 7 | Even when you have decided a broad direction , and I should emphasize that it is only possible to set ambitions in a broad sense and only helpful so to do , there will inevitably come times when external events show that one has made a false assessment of one 's starting point or the ability of one 's competitors , known or unsuspected , to seize the initiative . |
| 8 | Though I suppose one has to make a passing one has to make a passing er reference to the information which has come out in the other house erm and be publicised this weekend in the press but er er at one million almost one million a slug , M E Ps do n't come cheap , er I suppose one however would want to make allowances for the fact that they have three parliamentary buildings , that they have to go on trips and that er they have to pay er er I suppose German rates for their bureaucracy so there clearly are exceptional factors and indeed I would n't want to make too much of that . |
| 9 | Though I suppose one has to make a passing one has to make a passing er reference to the information which has come out in the other house erm and be publicised this weekend in the press but er er at one million almost one million a slug , M E Ps do n't come cheap , er I suppose one however would want to make allowances for the fact that they have three parliamentary buildings , that they have to go on trips and that er they have to pay er er I suppose German rates for their bureaucracy so there clearly are exceptional factors and indeed I would n't want to make too much of that . |
| 10 | In circumstances like that no one wants to make a mistake and no one is going to take things casually . ’ |
| 11 | Problems arise when there is a mismatch between the models adopted by the teacher and the parent — when , for example , one wants to make a complaint while the other wants to give advice . |
| 12 | I 've got someone from the village coming in every day to check that no one tries making a nuisance of themselves . |
| 13 | and erm one 's made a nest in this bird box |
| 14 | I guess everybody has to make a living the best way he knows but Zimmerman 's way left a taste in my mouth . |
| 15 | Well if you do everybody tends to make a bit of a fuss about it . |
| 16 | It is like trying to predict the outcome of a game of chess before anyone has made a move . |