Example sentences of "[noun] they make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These blooming ears they make more trouble than they 're wor , erm , than they 're worth ! |
| 2 | When they reached the Ferry Beach at New Passage they made all speed to the hospital and to the ‘ dead house ’ , which held seven coffins . |
| 3 | They had to take many economic decisions in the course of each annual cycle , and according to their status and wealth they made different decisions from one another in various places and over the year . |
| 4 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 5 | We 're going to make them fulfil the promises they made three years ago . |
| 6 | On one memorable day they made three captures , with Mike rushing exhausted around the forest trying to keep up . |
| 7 | Discussing the proposals of Holland and Benn designed to rectify the short-fall in investment in the British economy they make this point : |
| 8 | Whereas in Bradford and Leeds Labour lost ground , in Barnsley they made large gains and in Sheffield they maintained their position . |
| 9 | And then for half an hour they make small talk . |
| 10 | It is not even clear whether they travelled in a Japanese or a Chinese ship : but either way they made secret contacts with Thakin friends who agreed to accompany them back to Japan . |
| 11 | In time they made new villages , cleared more land for crops and traded with the older inhabitants . |
| 12 | The attitude of the New England colonies was probably well suited to the commercial and industrial society that was emerging in the seventeenth century , but at the time they made less impression on the world than the others . |
| 13 | Thus , it is not uncommon to find Comte , Durkheim , Marx , and Weber all described as positivists , even though from many points of view they make strange bedfellows . |
| 14 | Mrs X- — ( a teacher ) used to like Indian food and there were quite a few Indian girls in the class , so in two or three lessons in the cookery class they made Indian food . |
| 15 | In the region they make electrical goods , including computers in Manchester , canned , bottled and processed foods such as biscuits , cat food and sauces , including Heinz baked beans in Wigan ; all manner of packaging and printing ; shoes , cigarettes and furniture . |