Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] make [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dared not move until my eyes had made more sense of the place . |
| 2 | I know perfectly well that certain of my colleagues have made some attempt to concern themselves with these questions . |
| 3 | I could n't help remembering the pleasure I had had in my clothes , how keen my mother had been on my wearing them , how we had often designed them and chosen them together and my mother had made most of them . |
| 4 | because their husbands have made these settlements , often at very emotional times when the women were not really in a position to really make sure they |
| 5 | In his answer , Gilmore also took up and dismissed as totally unfounded a claim which Paisley had made several weeks earlier in the Commons that his own life was in danger from government agents . |
| 6 | She made a firm resolution to remain an active and useful member of a society to which Nye had made such a historic contribution . |
| 7 | Mr. Newman also submitted that in the above circumstances the order for committal of the applicant was an abuse of the process of the court , and for that reason the court should exercise its discretion to refuse to make such an order . |
| 8 | Once the hunting season was over he had gone straight off to Ireland to fish , and then , on the outbreak of war , had promptly rejoined his regiment , and as their colonel-in-chief had made several sorties to France during the next three years . |
| 9 | Her mother had made some scones and pies in her afternoon leisure and picked some flowers in case the child came back in need of cheering up , so they ate some supper and then went out to the headland . |
| 10 | ( Nora is presumably a Wonderful Ordinary Person , a type of whom Derek has made such a great fuss in the past . ) |
| 11 | Big-hearted Dudley Thomas immediately left his courtroom and returned minutes later clutching the wrapped sandwiches his wife had made that morning . |
| 12 | Later on Adam wondered if his father had made all this up or if he really believed it himself . |
| 13 | Williams had a good ear , and since his death some of his admirers have made more sense of his procedures than he could ever make for himself , but the lamentable effect of his example has been to lead poets to trust their ear implicitly , thus discrediting the very notion of measure . |
| 14 | Despite the shock she had received , she could see that what Oswin said made some kind of sense . |