Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] make [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I started by making a list of what I liked and then considering the pros and cons . |
2 | I started by making a plywood template of the arch , the top of the pillars being the baseline of the template , the radius to be fitted and assembled in the arch . |
3 | I dreamt of making an Olympic team when I was in high school , a rather far-fetched dream for a 4:36 miler , but that dream was part of what got me through all those hard times during the years that I was losing race after race in college . |
4 | Any gene I had for making a sacrifice , on behalf of a a sibling , are one hundred percent in my own body . |
5 | At special laboratories built in Los Alamos in the New Mexico desert , John R Oppenheimer led a team which succeeded in making an atomic bomb . |
6 | Each detailed river description is headed with a brief but exacting summary which helps in making a quick decision about which river to tackle next . |
7 | If you die without making a will ( sometimes called ‘ dying intestate ’ ) , strict rules govern who will inherit your property , including money and personal possessions : |
8 | Against the odds , she succeeds in making an intimate personal statement out of tunes that are almost public property . |
9 | Against the odds , she succeeds in making an intimate personal statement out of tunes that are almost public property . |
10 | Chicken , beef , lamb , vegetable and fish stock cubes mean that you can store them in the cupboard for use when you feel like making a pan of soup for the family . |
11 | But er anyone who feels like making a headed notepaper and getting it laser printed is welcome so to do . |
12 | Born with a silver spoon in his mouth , as they say , his worries were on a much higher financial plane than those of us who worried about making the pay packet last to the end of the month . |
13 | I never told — ’ she hesitated before making the mistake — ‘ told anyone exactly what they were . ’ |
14 | It was with difficulty that she refrained from making a sharp remark . |
15 | None of these three shares is a rubbishy penny share stock , where the price is buoyed up by investors who dream of making a fortune . |
16 | A man or woman who dies without making a will is intestate . |
17 | Once again the change can have nothing to do with making the chapter more acceptable . |
18 | But the simple reason that the men the local men had nothing to do with making the agreement now so they lose they lost interest in the trade union movement . |
19 | ‘ The moments we shared in making the nude paintings were best of all , and put a smile on my face . |
20 | When might we think of making a start ? " |
21 | In view of the financial risk we accept in making the guarantee we will not make any refund as a result of currency movements or reduction in costs . |
22 | As we proceed with making a tie , the purpose of it will become apparent — as well as the reason why plastic straps , loops of string and , worst of all , wire loops , do not do the job and can be so dangerous . |
23 | Well going back to the boards point about take over theatre as we did on making a loss . |
24 | Towards noon , Seb went in search of something to eat before making the return journey to Swinbrook . |
25 | To understand why this should be we start by making a comparison between potentials : one is an electrostatic potential due to charges at , and the other is a gravitational potential due to masses at . |
26 | Perhaps we need to MAKING A SHORT STORY 55 look , not at their content or form , but at their effect when we try to ascertain what is true for all of them — at least , all the stories that work . |
27 | He told the writer Constantine FitzGibbon some years later that he disliked the idea of poets " cashing in " on other people 's misery ; his scepticism about his own motives as well as those of others , and his general belief that one should not comment on any situation until one understood it thoroughly , made him refrain from making the kind of easy judgment or fashionable " stand " in which others indulged . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | It was the nearest she had known him come to making a joke . |
30 | And he succeeded in making a telescope of the sort familiar to everyone today who has seen an elementary book on optics . |