Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My feet made neat tracks on the tiles . |
| 2 | In these days of concern for the environment I am unwilling to use peat ( though I did try it some years ago and found my plants made little headway anyway ) . |
| 3 | Step 12 Evaluate the success of your actions by asking : ‘ Have my actions made any difference to the person 's behaviour ? ’ |
| 4 | My father made irregular appearances , singing hymns lustily as he climbed a mizzen-mast like a mountain . |
| 5 | My choice of industry might seem surprising , in view of my wish to make some sort of contribution to the world 's well-being . |
| 6 | And er after er my grandfather made that bike , after he started business on his own , he had , well the next thing came in was the penny farthing bicycle . |
| 7 | I gulped and peered over my shoulder to make sure Benjamin was behind me . |
| 8 | That they have cost me no more than my time makes such decisions much easier than if I had paid for them in gold . |
| 9 | Well there was all sorts , whatever was on the go , there was raspberry jam that my mo we used to later years my father grew raspberries and that sort of thing , blackcurrant jam , my mother made all sorts of things like that . |
| 10 | My mother made two movies with Alfred Hitchcock — Marnie and The Birds . |
| 11 | My mother made beautiful clothes for the richest people and my father baked fine breads . |
| 12 | There is no advantage in being governed by a collection of exhausted ministers doggedly sitting at their desks making bad decisions . |
| 13 | You know your Mum , she has to keep riding her bike to make fucking laundry drip dry . |
| 14 | Most of them know enough about their swings to make minor compensations and can work the ball around the course quite adequately since they can all revert to a ‘ bread and butter ’ swing , usually with ‘ bread and butter ’ results . |
| 15 | Those who have regular access to private transport may find their social activities increasing , while the relatively immobile may experience an increase in their wishes to make social visits which can not readily be satisfied . |
| 16 | Acute medicine retained its traditional dominance and the DHSS almost openly acknowledged its inability to make central objectives stick when it watered down its projected growth rates for the priority services in The Way Forward , produced in 1977 . |
| 17 | Turner 's view that migrants move into the city slums and then out to the shanty towns , is not so much the case now since the large number of spontaneous housing settlements and the widespread knowledge of their existence make this sort of housing immediately available . |
| 18 | Courts may be important less for what they do than for what they are : their existence makes social workers pause before they apply for an order . |
| 19 | There is often disagreement between spouses ; wives complain at best about lack of help and support from their husbands , at worst that their husbands make increased demands and take out their frustrations about the relative on their wives ; husbands complain that their wives are so |
| 20 | It may seem paradoxical , but New Historicism 's acknowledgement of a great complexity and subtlety between text and history and its hesitancy to make generalised claims for a culture has so far produced critical analysis of texts which tend to be recognisably similar to one another . |
| 21 | The government has announced its intention to make further reductions , when circumstances allow . |
| 22 | He sees her narrow hips , her lean back , her lustrous hair , and over her shoulder in the mirror her lips making quick whore 's movements to spread the lipstick evenly . |
| 23 | Her kindness made poor Boldwood dream of their future marriage , and suddenly , unable to stop himself , he said , ‘ Mrs Troy , will you marry again some day ? ’ |
| 24 | Fabia opened her mouth to make some kind of sophisticated reply , but her heart was racing so much — nobody had even paid her such an extravagant compliment before , and yet made it sound true and sincere , and not extravagant at all — that she could think of nothing to say . |
| 25 | It had only taken a matter of yards for her to acknowledge that her sandals made abysmal hiking boots . |
| 26 | Yet however suspect may be the capacity of electors in general to vote responsibly and intelligently their right to make political choices must in a democracy be respected . |
| 27 | It was introduced at a special one-day sitting of parliament and relies on a number of commonwealth powers , including its right to make special laws for any race of people . |
| 28 | He and Sybil lived carefully , borrowed cars to save renting them , accepted hospitality , incurred and endured some cutting remarks of the wealthy but kept steadfast to their aim to make some money and run back to London to act and feed the security bank . |
| 29 | As it was then understood : here again , Cole 's problem is to reconcile a course seen by the Pioneers themselves as treasonable , with the fact that it foreshadowed the policy to be followed by successful Consumers ' Co-operation , that policy which for its purposes made co-operative production incidental and subordinate to it and which most certainly did nothing to promote the development of an industrial co-operative sector properly so-called . |
| 30 | Though soon to be exposed to Nazi atrocities as returning soldiers and the world 's press became free to speak , he enjoyed the feeling of being on the winning side , of seeing his country 's troops and their allies making strong progress across Europe . |