Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 2 | So often in my life , where I 've made a mistake , it has been by taking the soft option . |
| 3 | Knowing exactly where you stand makes it much easier to ‘ strike a bargain ’ when you are shopping around . |
| 4 | ‘ No , shit , you just get to a point in your life where you want to make sure that everything is going to be OK . |
| 5 | If I 'd thought it noisy where we were , where we went made talking impossible . |
| 6 | The idea that one could go right round the universe and end up where one started makes good science fiction , but it does n't have much practical significance , because it can be shown that the universe would recollapse to zero size before one could get round . |
| 7 | For very form 's sake , and because , after all , Stair was his brother , he had stayed with the party through one act of a musical comedy at the Gaiety Theatre where they had made so much noise that their departure at the first interval must have pleased the audience which they had left behind , had gone to Quaggers — Quaglino 's — to dine — which meant drink — in a private room , and were now on their way to crown their evening 's pleasure by ‘ Pushing the boat out for Havvie ’ , Stair 's witticism . |
| 8 | However , that is a mechanical provision : Williams v Singer is authority for the proposition that the trustees can not be assessed where they have made such a direction . |
| 9 | There 's a whole range of things from the Foreign Office downwards where they have made mistakes costing many millions of pounds and we shall certainly be wanting to take evidence from this area of activity just to see what went wrong and how it can be put right and how we can prevent this sort of thing happening in the future . ’ |
| 10 | Susan could n't think of a film where he had made it alive to the end credits . |
| 11 | Though Joe 's literary knowledge is shaky , he has a reputation as a smart operator , and not only in the airplane business , where he has made his fortune . |
| 12 | ‘ Is this where he intends to make his land stand then ? ’ |
| 13 | The survey also pointed to two weaknesses : marketing ( where it failed to make the top ten ) and capacity to innovate ( where it came seventh ) . |
| 14 | Where it 's made up of thirty percent commission and the bonuses . |
| 15 | Yeah you 're right it is champagne is that where it 's made is it ? |
| 16 | It not only represents the profession towards the Institutions of the EC where it has made significant contributions , but is also the focal point for the discussion of matters of common interest to the profession throughout Europe . |
| 17 | Appointments are a ministerial decision ‘ although I do make recommendations ’ . |
| 18 | Henry Fonda was apparently heard to say of his son , ‘ That little bastard … he and some other punks have produced a movie out of nothing and have made more money from that piece of crap than I have made in a whole lifetime in Hollywood . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He 's not particularly assertive , so I try to make him more so , ’ she explains . |
| 20 | " At first , " John went on , obviously bent on making a clean breast of everything , " at first when I tell him you a whore , he do n't believe me , so I got to make him believe . |
| 21 | I hardly had anything in the cupboard so I had to make do … |
| 22 | With Adrar now five miles away , flotsam and jetsam were increasing , so I began to make a mental inventory of all I passed — six sardine cans , two bottles , the greater part of a tyre , too many small pieces of rubber to count , a five-litre can and the cylinder head from a car engine . |
| 23 | OK , so I 've made some duff movies . |
| 24 | Yet somehow Edward must be appeased , so I sought to make a virtue of my ignorance , asking questions that would allow him to air his greater experience . |
| 25 | Mick informed me that the Brigade Major had gone to pay No. 4 Commando a visit , so I decided to make my own way there and keep out of the Brigade Major 's path as much as possible . |
| 26 | ‘ The kids used to watch me working with my own tractor so I decided to make then their own version , ’ says Klaus . |
| 27 | But you should certainly avoid obvious personal intrusions , such as the two following : The confession " Sorry , I had no time to complete this essay , so I have made some basic points that I would have brought out and discussed . " |
| 28 | ‘ I also have to accept that maybe I 'm not that versatile , so I have to make sure that I 'm in the right situation to show myself off to my best advantage . |
| 29 | Well , as long as it does n't make me feel uneasy , I 'm a fairly tidy sort of person , so I do make the bed , and sort of tidy up in the bedroom , and I tidy up in here , when she 's gone to bed . |
| 30 | It was pointless making friends who would reject the ‘ new me ’ in the future , so I stopped making friends . |