Example sentences of "[vb past] to make some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madame then settled back in her seat and fell into a deep sleep for the rest of the journey , full of good food and wine , and liqueurs , while Ellie stared back out of the window and tried to make some sense of all that had just been said , and all that had just happened . |
| 2 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , he tried to make some sense of Steen 's behaviour . |
| 3 | I tried to make some enquiries . ’ |
| 4 | Higginson , crowning his " busy life among " the Stockport boys ' ventured to make some comments to the Governors in a letter on 14th June , " not through any belief that , in your present position in financial and other matters , you can act upon them soon ; but when and if the ability comes " . |
| 5 | The young Ws began to make some progress socially , and Mr M said he felt all was going well . |
| 6 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 7 | I now needed to make some sort of a decision . |
| 8 | If the Regent and the cavalry could be brought back , and urged to make some sort of attack , or at least the threat of attack , Edward would have other things to think about than hanging hostages . |
| 9 | She decided to make some changes and embarked on a quest which took her to , among other places , an ashram in Wales and a three-week ‘ Relationships Seminar ’ in Hawaii ( price $8,000 ) run by an American called Chuck Spezzano . |
| 10 | The inclusion of these provisions in the plan were referred to by Rafsanjani in a speech on Oct. 8 , when he reported that " we decided to make some amendments in the plan ( which had been completed in an earlier draft form by the previous government of Prime Minister Hossein Moussavi ) under the new atmosphere " . |
| 11 | Started to make some biscuits and then read the recipe afterwards and she had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours in the , the pastry in the fridge so they could n't make the biscuits , there I 'm sitting here expecting erm , a biscuit and nothing came , dear , it was n't one of those recipes that you could make it straight away was it ? |
| 12 | She was good at sewing , and managed to make some clothes for me in the thinnest material available . |
| 13 | I struggled to make some sense of this new and appalling complication . |
| 14 | But you chose to make some rules . |
| 15 | He thought to make some tea . |
| 16 | when I went to make some jam tarts . |
| 17 | I left them together while I went to make some coffee , and when I came back into the room , Shanti was saying , ‘ Patsy , where do I get my big feet from ? |
| 18 | So as a result of that because it 's been erm changed in the nineteenth century the eighteen forties and eighteen fifties , architectural historians who we who were faced with a real problem with York cos York had something like fifty medieval churches and erm er about thirty of them surviving into into the twentieth century , erm and they had to make some decisions about which ones to preserve and which ones to let go . |
| 19 | It looked as though someone had spilled a can of spaghetti and had to make some sense of it . |
| 20 | He woke in a fury two hours afterward , and said that she had upset his rhythm and that he had to make some calls . |
| 21 | She put the telephone down on the floor and knelt beside it , facing Shildon and saying Tavett was in trouble and she had to make some calls . |
| 22 | He felt he had to make some kind of protest , no matter how feeble . |
| 23 | He wanted to leave now too , but he had to make some kind of contact with the dead man first . |
| 24 | We improve our operating margins , reduced our bad debts , and even though we had to make some reductions in numbers , the reorganisation costs were down on 1991 . |
| 25 | Although he had to make some concessions , he has declared himself by and large satisfied . |
| 26 | She told him that they could n't possibly stay down here , and that he had to make some effort to escape . |
| 27 | However , without exception , all the women had to make some economies because their wages had been an essential part of the household economy and their benefits were too low to compensate for their lost earnings . |
| 28 | I felt that I had to make some sort of social effort so I swung my legs off the bed and sat sheepishly on the edge . |
| 29 | I had to make some sort of last-ditch stand . |
| 30 | ‘ When the National Library agreed to make some loans , that really got the ball rolling , ’ she said . |