Example sentences of "[pron] make [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belpan 's tax base was less than that of a medium-sized European market town , which made running the country a financial nightmare . |
| 2 | She made to close the door on them when Mrs Phipps added , ‘ We 're gooin' from dower to dower ter get a collection up for a few flowers . |
| 3 | What assumptions did you make to achieve the improvement ? project : to move m/c tool from factory to new site and install . |
| 4 | In virtually equating doubt and unbelief they make doubt the opposite of faith in a way that is true neither to the Bible nor to what we know of human knowledge . |
| 5 | However , the AIB inspectors always try to be helpful and provide the coroner with the basic information he needs to establish the cause of death , but nonetheless , they sometimes get little thanks for the efforts they make to assist the coroner and sometimes they are treated in a rather off-hand manner . |
| 6 | He made to shine the torch into her face , but she pushed his hand down . |
| 7 | As he made to leave the chamber , Deems said , ‘ If you perceive that the Emperor does not trust you , why continue faithful ? ’ |
| 8 | He made to close the door . |
| 9 | He also — as a by-product of the grant he made to repay the monks for the loss of their plate following his aid to Rufus in 1095 — provided money for the rebuilding of the cathedral choir on a greatly enlarged scale . |
| 10 | The shorter this is , the more sense it makes to take the lump sum , rather than deny yourself for a longer-term pension that you will not be around to enjoy . |
| 11 | This , he argues , is good news for reform since it makes fudging the issue harder : ‘ We still have not answered the basic question : do we want to be Libya or Europe , to re-establish an old-style communist regime or to promote market institutions ? |
| 12 | I fix a screw and head upwards , searching for weaknesses in the ice — pockets , slots , anything to make placing the tools that little bit easier . |