Example sentences of "[conj] you make a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's that game where you make a grid on a sheet of graph paper and each player has one battleship ( four squares ) , two cruisers ( three squares ) , three destroyers ( two squares ) and so on , then you have to knock out the opponent 's fleet .
2 They 'll say we ca n't afford you , so it 's in my interest really that you make a profit .
3 Keep a notebook if it helps and make sure that you make a collection of the situations that cause a program to crash .
4 That comes automatically , together with iced water , before Peggy Sue begins interrogating you , and is replenished so often and so generously that you make a note to speak harshly to the next British rip-off artist who rushes you 80p for a niggardly Nescafe .
5 It is surprising that you make a fuss about the succession .
6 I often say jokingly that you make a comment to somebody and you find you 're talking to the world export on expert on whatever it is .
7 The moral of this tale is that to knit a garment to the correct size , it is vital that you make a tension swatch and try to match the result to the tension the designer of the pattern has given .
8 You do n't want to lock your pictures away in a vault , so you make a vault of the room they 're in .
9 Uniting boredom , provinciality , the Gadarene stampede , and paper people , Peter Verkhovensky says : ‘ I realize that in this godforsaken town you are bored , so you make a rush for any piece of paper with something written on it . ’
10 ‘ The problem is that once you make a mistake in deciding the child needs testing it can set up a chain of events that can lead to severe problems for the child , ’ he says .
11 Well we could set , like you say and no you know , and get it going and you make a salary
12 Of course , if we put too low a price on the asset we are selling , perhaps because we want large queues of buyers for this asset so we can claim how popular it is , we make a loss on the sale and you make a profit .
13 Well you mix up er you mix up some colours , black and er and black and wh i stuff Bismarck brown which Mix them together and you make a colour to match up the rest and maybe bring in darker streaks and make a pat You know what I mean ?
14 If you get into a roundabout and you m and you make a mistake , what 's the best thing to do ?
15 and you do n't , you do n't and you make a mistake
16 I think if we go through and have a look at these other ones that Jenny has done and you make a decision at that point as to whether .
17 And you make a fifteen-piastre profit on each one , do n't you ?
18 If you do n't see him , you 've got to make all your points religiously until you see him , and having found him , he makes a note in his diary , and you make a note in yours and you 're away .
19 SERAFIN : And you make a gesture which the tape-recorder wo n't pick up , but which suggests , I imagine , impatience with pedantic nitpicking .
20 Terrible ! and you make a heaps of the field and then that 's the first handling , and then these heaps had to be loaded on to a trailer and then they were all dumped in a big heap at the bottom of the drive , and then we wait till there was a truck for each Stow station and load it all up again , and do you know there 's those forks with big Cumberland Cross on the end , and we 'd load those up , take them to Stow station , and unload it into the waggon .
21 Until you make a mistake , and , believe me , you will .
22 If you make a hash of any of the work , he may worry that his reputation could be jeopardized , and could charge extra for putting things right .
23 My Lord in making my main submissions to your Lordship , erm , I submitted and this is position that there is no distinction between public and private acts , in the British Rail Board both the act and the central fund byelaw should be taken as valid in the interim if your Lordship is minded to make a reference , unless strong evidence of invalidity is , so your Lordship if you make a reference it needs to form a view as to the strength of the
24 My Lord making my main submissions to your Lordship , erm I submitted and it is position that there is no distinction between public and private acts , the thicken in the board , both the act and the central fund by the law should be taken as valid in the interim if your Lordship is minded to make a reference unless strong evidence of invalidity is produced , so your Lordship if you make a reference it needs to form a view as to the strength of the
25 What this all boils down to is that , if you make a turn to the left while flying forwards at high speed with clockwise blade rotation , you will probably need to apply full left tail rotor .
26 An employer should not , however , react excessively or too soon if you make a mistake .
27 If you make a mistake when building a mains powered project there is almost certain to be some damage , even if it is only something minor such as a blown fuse and damaged switch .
28 If you make a mistake when drawing a design on a pattern sheet do not despair , I have found that W.H. Smith 's ‘ Cover-up strips ’ will cover wrongly marked black squares .
29 Although putting inserts and dubs onto original video tapes is quite straightforward , it does carry the risk that , if you make a mistake , you may ruin an irreplaceable recording .
30 However , speaking commentary while watching the screen for cues is not easy , and if you make a mistake you have to go right back to the beginning and start all over again .
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