Example sentences of "[verb] make a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Even then the director had to make changes as the backers insisted that the story of an impoverished farmer galvanizing a group of the unemployed into helping make a success of things was combined with a more conventional sex angle .
2 Once again this week you need to do the following in preparation for the " Grand Review " : review your weight loss record any reactions you experienced make a note of any foods you have discarded note the positive drinks or foods that you have discovered .
3 And , I mean , even when I say make a cup of tea
4 Those who live close enough to walk to work make a point of mentioning it , rather as if they were keeping alive a forgotten folkway .
5 Thereafter , we allays made a point of asking the culprit , whenever we wanted to use the bucket for anything from watering the flowers to doing the ironing , ‘ Is this water in here or urine ? ’
6 Do [ if she did ] , she 'd ha' made a mess of me !
7 The man has made a fool of himself , but the girl was almost equally stupid .
8 ‘ However , your vanity has made a fool of you .
9 It has made a lake of the Mediterranean , a stream of the Atlantic and a winter garden of Algeria ’ .
10 Fifthly , a member who is adjudged bankrupt or who has made a composition with his creditors ceases to be a member .
11 Stephen Czerkas is an amateur American paleontologist who has made a name for himself by reconstructing lifelike models of dinosaurs .
12 Swindon has made a name for itself attracting overseas investment into Britain , American , Japanese and German .
13 ‘ Darlington has made a name for itself with imaginative use of housing capital .
14 The group 's Snob subsidiary is steadily raising its sales per square foot and management has made a breakthrough at the previously troubled Peter Brown menswear acquisition , which has performed markedly better since June .
15 This means that the seller has made a return of 50 per cent on his initial investment of 200 in just five days while the buyer has lost 50 per cent of his initial investment .
16 The government has made a mess of its showpiece , the privatisation of the profitable Muslim Commercial Bank .
17 There is nothing which can be guaranteed to alienate the affections of a statistician more than the surveyor who goes for advice after he has made a mess of sampling and needs someone to get him out of the mess .
18 We learn that John has had an affair with a fashion model ( Sunny Griffin ) , who moves in with her dresses , wigs and dog , but decides to leave after she has made a mess of the kitchen by boiling the spaghetti over .
19 The Federal Assembly has made a mess of the country 's name , rejecting the Czecho-Slovakia with a hyphen and finally agreeing on the Czech and Slovak Federated Republic ( CFSR ) .
20 After meeting staff he has made a plea to agency chiefs to delay the transfer so that full consultations can take place .
21 Rob Collister , president of Britain 's mountain guides , has made a plea for guides to set the example to the climbing community of the virtues of adventure climbing over convenience climbing .
22 The charity to benefit this year is Leukaemia Research , and Lisburn 's own golden girl Mary Peters has made a plea for runners to help the valuable work of this group by obtaining sponsorship .
23 TOP rugby coach Mostyn Richards has made a plea for all clubs to back fully the Mid-Wales District representative team .
24 If the arrest is lawful but the accused believes it to be unlawful , he is guilty because he has made a mistake of law : Bentley ( 1850 ) 4 Cox CC 406 .
25 At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious .
26 Proving that a contravention has occurred , even if only on the balance of probabilities , will not be easy , nor will demonstrating that an alleged miscreant has made a profit as a result of his contravention .
27 But his widow has made a present of a portrait of , of the , of the prophet , which is now in the Meeting House in Sussex University , with a plaque erm commemorating the gift .
28 Scotland 's rugby coach is acknowledged worldwide as the master alchemist whose inspired blending of the human elements at his disposal has made a nonsense of the form book .
29 He is acknowledged worldwide now as the master alchemist whose inspired blending of the human elements at his disposal has made a nonsense of perceived national pool strengths .
30 I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ?
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