Example sentences of "[prep] make a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well got ta make a good breakfast .
2 Oh God do n't wan na do my fucking musical , I 've got ta make a flipping piece of music out from a stupid scale .
3 Erm but do n't forget to like if you look at the beginning , number one , you 've got ta make a big thing on planning the future
4 I got ta make a dozen mince pies for the , she said can you make a dozen mince for the , I said no Sheila , she said pardon , I said no , I said I 'd buy twelve I will not make twelve , so after that she 's , then went round everybody could make twelve mince pies , it 's a bit of a nerve is n't it ? , seems a bit of a nerve asking us to buy the wool and make
5 My interests , after making a lifelong detour through the natural sciences , medicine and psychotherapy , returned to the cultural problems which had fascinated me long before , when I was a youth scarcely old enough for thinking .
6 Williamson 's advice to the organizational designer is to operate in a discriminating way , that is only after making a comparative assessment of the costs of using one organizational form rather than another .
7 The length of the adjusted pack was enough to cater for my unusually long back and after making a small adjustment to the shoulder strap attachment plates which can be swivelled to close or widen the gap between them at the neck , I had a very good fit .
8 After making a good meal I asked how much I owed .
9 After making a political volte-face he went on , without even a glimmer of embarrassment , to be responsible for bringing in the council tax .
10 After making a general attribution based on design , you should next take into account the colour scheme and tonal qualities of the rug .
11 Dowie was delighted at his goal , and it was no more than Northern Ireland deserved after making a positive start in atrocious conditions .
12 On the same course last week , Wonder Man lost his unbeaten chasing record after making a bad blunder at the penultimate fence .
13 After lunch , Reeve removed Cairns with his eighth ball in Test cricket after making a belated entry into the attack in the 108th over , but only after Nottinghamshire 's new signing had made an increasingly fluent 61 .
14 It was soon over , the patient was shown out after making a further appointment , and they were admitted .
15 Rugby League ref turned raconteur Billy Thompson was again the speaker , booked after making a big hit at Darlington Cricket Club 's do .
16 I think I left the Bench at least with an impression that they had someone very special to deal with , I was , of course , all the time praying that no one for the police would ask for his Conduct Sheet , which they overlooked after making a dutiful response to the Bench , and I hurried away to be met outside the Court by Stewart , who at once asked me to lend him a pound .
17 Melrose played six tests up to 1979 after making a magnificent debut when the 1978 Wallabies trounced the All Blacks by a record 30–16 margin in the Third Test at Auckland 's Eden Park .
18 THE Princess of Wales charmed her Korean hosts yesterday after making an extraordinary pact with Prince Charles .
19 But Christopher was playing happily in hospital last night after making an astounding recovery .
20 1.62 As we have seen , when the defendant pays into court after making an interim payment , he must ensure that this notice of payment in states that the interim payment has been taken into account ( Ord 29 , r15 ) if he wants to put the plaintiff on risk for the aggregate of the two payments .
21 Police are particularly anxious to hear from a man who suddenly hung up after making an anonymous call to the incident room in January .
22 That would of made a good conversation , why did you give Michelle the glass ?
23 Erm he would of made a good singer , yes .
24 BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place .
25 Bully Boy , who had been backed from 20-1 down to 9-1 , was a fence clear by the time the third obstacle was jumped and , despite making a terrible blunder at the fifth , he never looked likely to be challenged .
26 In a separate development , British Aerospace and Thomson CSF of France confirmed they were considering making a joint offer for Ferranti .
27 THERE was speculation yesterday that the Lloyd 's of London insurance market is considering making a jumbo £1 billion bond issue to plug a yawning gap in its finances after recent huge losses .
28 The government had stated that it was considering making a formal application for membership , as Sweden had done in July .
29 Remember the sensational flurry a couple of years back when we picked up word that IBM Corp was considering making an agreed offer for Apple Computer Inc ?
30 The problem of making a lasting peace had been postponed .
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