Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | West Venture was acquired in March 1988 but only began to make significant sales this year . |
| 2 | They found the babies who were left for longer began to make crawling movements towards the breast after 20 minutes , and after 50 minutes virtually all had suckled correctly at the breast — and were more likely to breastfeed successfully as a result afterwards . |
| 3 | When Grunenthal finally decided to make civil compensation to the satisfaction of suffering parents and children , the federal government 's prosecution lost the bit between its teeth and permitted the hearing to be suspended indefinitely . |
| 4 | I just wanted to make one comment . |
| 5 | ‘ I just wanted to make some sense out of life . ’ |
| 6 | A BOSS yesterday admitted making sexist remarks to his secretary for a laugh . |
| 7 | It is notable , however , that although titled nobles were very prominent in the highest ranks in the college it still had to make extensive use of commoners , since even in the 1750s it was impossible to find enough dvoryane ( members of the privileged landowning class ) with an adequate knowledge of foreign languages . |
| 8 | Family and part-time farmers usually had to make greater sacrifices than those from the larger units to attend training courses so it was extremely important that they should derive benefits from participating . |
| 9 | Gray also reported making three sales ‘ three times as many as I made last year ’ . |
| 10 | The company also started making silly mistakes . |
| 11 | He inspired the Prince , worked alongside him , coached him in the ways of business , schooled him in the art of responsible land management , encouraged him to try out new ideas , and helped turn the Duchy from a non-profit making concern into one that five years later had made net profits of £1.46 million . |
| 12 | I now needed to make some sort of a decision . |
| 13 | He immediately began making anonymous donations to charity — but stayed as an agent with Kleeneze . |
| 14 | She even started making other arrangements so she would n't just end up sitting at home staring at the phone and forcing herself not to ring him and say her plans had changed and she was free after all . |
| 15 | He said there had been a number of occasions in the past two years where a helicopter from Prestwick had failed to reach the area due to low cloud , while Lossiemouth helicopters frequently had to make considerable detours round the east coast . |
| 16 | The movie that provoked most debate around rape and its representation before The Accused , was Lamont Johnson 's 1976 film Lipstick , which at least did make some attempt to make connections between the rape and the wider social implications of how society constructs images of women . |
| 17 | Any yet I badly wanted to make some kind of personnel response . |
| 18 | The only wooden stairs that never seemed to make any noise were those inch-thick slabs in modern public buildings ; house stairs always took pleasure in announcing to everybody what you were doing . |
| 19 | These led on to the further issues of the relation between Christianity and other religions in general , and of the impact of the critical study of religions on Christian theology ; for that study too had made huge strides through the nineteenth century . |