Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] make [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end he stopped bothering to make any pretence of cuddles , it became fucking pure and simple . |
| 2 | It is usually found ( from pilot studies ) that ‘ personalization ’ of the letter of introduction is of no benefit , nor is use of a printed letterhead ; neither the colour of paper nor the day ( of the week ) received seem to make any difference . |
| 3 | Once or twice he 'd — well he 'd tried to make some sort of advances to her . |
| 4 | It was disquieting , though , the way he seemed to have to make these excuses to himself , as if his conscience which he had , so he thought at the age of sixteen , successfully buried , had suddenly reawakened to plague him , not about the fundamentals of belief and morality but about such comparative trivialities as whether or not one should attend the church bazaar . |
| 5 | Terry hated having to make these tapes and we knew how distressing it was for him . |
| 6 | It seemed unlikely that anyone so competent as Dora would make such an elementary mistake , but under that fierce gaze Melissa felt bound to make some suggestion , however implausible . |
| 7 | When he did try to make some real contribution to society , it seemed that all he got for his trouble was The Prince was too sensitive , too intelligent , to play the part mapped out for him , the part that his courtiers were there to help maintain . |
| 8 | The girls were very bright with one nine-year-old working on her machine from six in the morning to six at night — so we did manage to make some progress . |
| 9 | But then , as night fell and the lights were switched on in the carriage , illuminating the sepia photographs of Morecambe Bay at dawn and donkeys trotting Blackpool sands , he felt his privacy was being invaded and had stopped making those conciliatory gestures . |
| 10 | It was a stupid idea but nothing she said seemed to make any difference . |
| 11 | She regretted that she had had to make this incoherent and disingenuous speech , partly because , as she went on , she had begun to listen to what she was saying and had realized that at some level her apprehensions about her family were justified . |
| 12 | The Ambassador replied that he realized that no statement could be made on this subject and he himself had avoided making any such statement which he felt might prove embarrassing . |
| 13 | Murdoch McKillop , the joint administrative receiver said he very much regretted having to make some 30 per cent of Leyland Daf 's UK employees redundant . |
| 14 | For a year I had worked to make this creature , but now it looked terrible and frightening . |
| 15 | He had planned to make this tour in January , but postponed it because of the Gulf war . |
| 16 | Until his family was safe , he had declined to make any formal statement , but now he went with them to the American Embassy and swore out an affidavit about what he had seen as a DIA agent assigned to DEA NARCOG , Nicosia . |
| 17 | The agreements , particularly that on the reunion of dispersed families , had not been expected by political commentators , but were seen as an important contribution towards providing some fresh momentum for the Premiers ' talks which , after the dramatic progress of December 1991 , had failed to make much progress in succeeding months . |
| 18 | The paper claimed that the government had failed to make more progress in changing attitudes because so many beneficiaries of the tax state were opinionformers and hostile to the government 's goals and to free enterprise . |
| 19 | It was a week now since Clarion Call had vanished and , despite backup from Roquelaure , he had failed to make any progress in tracing the whereabouts of the directors of Spidex International Trading . |
| 20 | Where , however , the recorded mileage was exceptionally low for the age of the vehicle and the defendant had failed to make any enquiries even of the car 's immediate previous owner , the defence is likely to fail , Simmons v. Ravenhill ( 1983 D.C. ) . |
| 21 | An assessment by energy analysts published in the International Atomic Energy Agency 's Bulletin Vol. 32 , No. 1 ( 1990 ) calculated that OPEC oil had not only lost a portion of its share of existing markets , but had failed to make any penetration into new energy markets created by economic growth . |
| 22 | By the end of the month the Republican challenge to President George Bush by right-wing journalist Patrick Buchanan had all but been neutralized , while the campaign of former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke had failed to make any significant impact . |
| 23 | Frigidity becomes the spectre hovering over this transition , should it not be properly accomplished , and the frigid woman was one who had failed to make this transference . |