Example sentences of "[vb base] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | say make a wood'un and ice it . |
| 2 | And , I mean , even when I say make a cup of tea |
| 3 | Here Forgive 'N Forget made a mistake and handed the initiative to Wayward Lad , but he was very tired and started to wander to the left towards the rails . |
| 4 | The Cleansing Department are aware of this and suggest making a phone call to the department who will arrange to uplift the pet and remove it . |
| 5 | These are the most frequently used records and involve making a mark every time a specified behaviour is witnessed . |
| 6 | Did her unkempt condition preclude making a quest out of her ? |
| 7 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 8 | As all the members of our group are volunteers , we expect to make a couple of hundred pounds profit on the event , which will help support our other activities during the year . |
| 9 | Clients often expect to make a mixture of appointments , some internally and some from outside their organisation . |
| 10 | This is not a cold commercial situation where we expect to make a fortune , but one where people get job satisfaction — and so , hopefully , will I. |
| 11 | ‘ I expect to make a statement any day now . |
| 12 | We expect to make a statement on that in the new year . |
| 13 | ‘ I expect to make a lot of money , ’ she said coolly , sitting down to pour . |
| 14 | Grout is usually white , but you can buy coloured grout if you want to make a feature of the grout lines ( an effect that looks best with plain or fairly neutral patterned tiles ) . |
| 15 | We should listen to how people actually want to make a contribution and base our structures on their views , instead of rather male structures which demand substantial commitment . |
| 16 | Anybody want to make a contribution . |
| 17 | Now anyone else want to make a contribution on Selby and then we can move to Harrogate ? |
| 18 | I want to make a phone call . ’ |
| 19 | You do C D sorry , I should have said M D If you want to make a directory off the root directory , you type M D to make directory . |
| 20 | If you want to make a shape that is straight to the waist , then enter one program for the first straight section and knit to the instruction for cast off . |
| 21 | ‘ Wotcha want to make a mess like that for ? ’ |
| 22 | But you still have to decide whether you want to make a kitchen you can eat in , or an eating place which is also the kitchen . |
| 23 | Er I want , I want to make a casserole have you got either a neck of lamb or an ox tail or something like that ? |
| 24 | Even if you want to make a poem in the end , write in prose first , just to make sure you 're clear about the feelings and experiences that have come to the surface . |
| 25 | At first , I was again summoned and warned , ‘ If you want to make a scandal out of it , it 'll get worse ’ . |
| 26 | Now when I look back on that part of my life , I want to make a film and call it The Loneliness of the Long Distance Latent Lesbian . |
| 27 | " I want to make a film ! " he said |
| 28 | When you want to make a call , you just speak your code to wake up the phone , say ‘ Dial ’ , tell it the number you want , say ‘ Send ’ and you 're through in seconds . |
| 29 | I want to make a call to … |
| 30 | If you want to make a fight of it I should warn you that they were not his to give . |