Example sentences of "[pron] make [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dodged between the startled shoppers , none of whom made any attempt to stop him . |
| 2 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 3 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 4 | Should I make fresh efforts to get him back ? |
| 5 | Planning for the fateful flight started several weeks earlier when I made tentative arrangements to visit a microlight manufacturer at Membury airfield in Berkshire for the review of the Chevron which appears in this issue . |
| 6 | My son spent a year at Liphook Junior School , during which time my husband and I made frequent visits to discuss our concerns regarding this apparent lack of progress . |
| 7 | I made violent splashes to attract his attention ; he circled until a rescue launch picked me up , some 30 to 45 minutes later . |
| 8 | Back that the al-Rasheed hotel , where I was staying , I made sporadic efforts to escape this undercurrent of hysteria . |
| 9 | Now I make enough money to pay others to help at home and queue for me . |
| 10 | Much of the work of these Committees informed the work of the Civil Justice Review , which made numerous proposals to alleviate the problem . |
| 11 | She made strenuous efforts to tame her behaviour when she was indoors , never rattling her earrings during Mass , nor racing along the stone corridors as if they were open fields . |
| 12 | Throughout most of her reign , and particularly in its early years , she made strenuous efforts to show herself an adherent of advanced theories of government and of the ideas of the French Enlightenment in general . |
| 13 | She made fresh tapes to play in the car , and grinned at the luxury of traffic jams in the company of Louis Prima and Sidney Bechet . |
| 14 | Then , realising that it did n't take much for this man to get to her , she made sterner efforts to get herself more of one piece and , returning her hand to her lap , she drew out of nowhere , ‘ Not everybody can wear contact lenses , ’ and added for a touch of authenticity , ‘ I ca n't myself . ’ |
| 15 | Leith could feel her anger straining at the leash at his sarcastic comment , but she made enormous efforts to stay cool . |
| 16 | Did you make any attempt to get me free ? ’ |
| 17 | Yet the war goes on and more arrivals — veterans of the Khmer Rouge , the South Vietnamese army , the Salvadorean death squads — come to replace the lucky few who make enough money to escape the war of Los Angeles . |
| 18 | She liked me , I could tell ; otherwise why would she make such efforts to demonstrate that she was n't interested ? |
| 19 | The lad who led her in , the irate punter who looked up at her with contempt and muttered , ‘ You 're useless ’ , Bill , who made little effort to conceal his anger as she unsaddled Boardwalk . |
| 20 | There were those men who made strained efforts to submerge their mistrust , dislike and fear of us . |
| 21 | Mary Leapor , however , would have studied under a man named Richard Cooper who made strenuous efforts to improve the school during the middle years of the century [ Clarke ] . |
| 22 | The initials stood for , who was , according to ‘ a wheelwright ( known to our friends in Kilchrenan where we stay every summer ) who made these wheels to order only ’ . |
| 23 | The air crews used to flock around the office even more now that she was with us , and in particular a navigator called Henry who made numerous attempts to date her . |
| 24 | " Have you made any effort to go and see the plaintiff there , Mrs James ? |
| 25 | Not once had she made any attempt to respond to his initiatives . |
| 26 | With our increasing clarity of the racism we faced daily , we made tentative overtures to involve ourselves in Black women 's activities . |
| 27 | Continuing up the easy gradient of the ridge we made frequent stops to admire the icy crest and fearsome north west face of Chamlang , soaring skywards . |
| 28 | Our work proceeds by trying to model this ocean atmosphere system and initially we made these models to develop an understanding but it turned out that the models worked pretty well to make predictions . |
| 29 | Only that we would want all students to experience these things to the fullest , so that they all have varied and rich experiences in all these spheres , and that we make special efforts to provide the time and space for the students to explore and develop their abilities and inclinations to learn and develop personal qualities without being directed . |
| 30 | Nor did we make much effort to match the potent appeal of Tory policies on privatisation and council house sales . |