Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we have got a meeting on Thursday , so perhaps we could make a point of er coming forward with some possible suggestions . |
| 2 | If you have read your books you will discover that the Romans used to have tasters too and loved food so much they 'd make themselves sick after each course by sticking a feather down their throats . |
| 3 | Only you can know what is right for you — so only you can make the final decision . |
| 4 | In years to come they 're gon na be the managers so hopefully we can make it better for someone else . |
| 5 | Perhaps now I could make my own bread ! |
| 6 | Perhaps now she could make up for her crime against society . |
| 7 | And then before eight o'clock then I would make myself a big meal , I 'd have a , a huge salad I 'd do tinned potatoes cos they were , on this diet tinned potatoes are n't fattening |
| 8 | Older people we know want to be offered more ways of preventing illness , so you know , they have to really be informed , er we want them to know about it so then they can make the choice as to whether they take it up with their G P . |
| 9 | Eventually I had the other repeat to make the three parts , so then I could make harmonies by playing along with the tape . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps there he would make her see a little better . |
| 11 | The night-dark eyes bored into her as he moved closer still , and she braced herself , wondering just how he 'd make his attack . |
| 12 | To use it is a hobby , perhaps an additional income , sometimes a lifesaver when things are difficult but in countries where life is altogether harder it can make a startling difference to the family income and the quality of life . |
| 13 | Perhaps there is a feeling that once more we should make a point of giving thanks for our plentiful water supply . |
| 14 | If she went straight home now she would make it just in time to pick up her little daughter from her next-door neighbour 's and escort her personally to her appointment . |
| 15 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 16 | And pay her back so it 'll make up the up to one thirty . |
| 17 | Their reaction to the recession is worth considering as the Government is engaged in thrashing out how it will make its own ends meet . |
| 18 | whereas he 's got ta he says just one round here so they could make decisions for you . |
| 19 | So I thought well perhaps I could make a basket then . |
| 20 | The Whigs , on the whole , were much more cohesive than the Tories , but even here we can make a distinction between Junto Whigs , Court Whigs and Country Whigs . |
| 21 | I do not yet know in what form this particular section will be published , whether as a foreword or as an interpolation into the body of my work , but I can begin to see that even here I can make something triumphant out of necessity . |
| 22 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 23 | If you actually allow it to be a caf in your premises which hopefully will also satisfy some of our customers then apparently it will make a profit . |
| 24 | As part of the process , the BBC also commissioned a confidential report to show how much it could make from broadcasting commercials to supplement the licence fee . |
| 25 | Knowing the amount of shelf space available helps the retailer to work out how much profit each area of shelving is making — and how much it could make . |
| 26 | ‘ Then perhaps you could make a small room available to me for a few hours ? |
| 27 | She recalled that as a young girl she 'd often sucked slowly at a big lollipop to see how long she could make it last . |
| 28 | This gives the assessors some idea of how quickly they must make their assessments . |
| 29 | But even as the words echoed in her brain , she knew she would n't voice them , would n't give him the satisfaction of knowing just how childishly he could make her behave . |
| 30 | You arrest somebody , maybe a drunk , the next day he 's feeling a little disgruntled and almost inevitably he 'll make a complaint … |