Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second-hand pipe organs are sometimes worth considering when they are fine instruments and when the total cost of their purchase , removal and rebuilding in a place suitable for them makes economic sense . |
| 2 | From these women 's descriptions of their days , it is clear that rarely , if ever , is it possible for them to make this distinction either . |
| 3 | Perhaps the brothers had waited in vain for me to make some retraction . |
| 4 | According to his account to the House of Commons , Baldwin replied : ‘ Sir , that is most grievous news , and it is impossible for me to make any comment on it today . ’ |
| 5 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 6 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 7 | Everything and something and nothing are all logically interlinked and none of them makes clear sense without the others . |
| 8 | None of them fit together , none of them makes any sense . |
| 9 | However , neither of them makes any reference to her husband , or to the dynamics of her marriage relationship in these comments , though Norma Larkin makes some ( implicit ) observations about marriage in general . |
| 10 | They lived the lives of the folk among whom they worked ; and this may have helped many of them to make real contact with their parishioners . |
| 11 | His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading . |
| 12 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 13 | None of it made any sense . |
| 14 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 15 | But none of it made any difference . |
| 16 | It 's easy to be deceived into thinking none of it makes any sense but it does make sense : a strange , twisted , whimsical , surreal kind of sense . |
| 17 | We were so confident of each other 's love that should one of us make that final , selfish decision the other would feel his friend 's sense of loss even more keenly than his own . |
| 18 | I would have sworn there had n't been time for you to make any kind of progress since last night . |
| 19 | It may be difficult for you to make instantaneous response to what is said . |
| 20 | Claudia pleaded with him to make some defence . |
| 21 | A second visionary experience was required to create the world of the archetypal stage , the skene , and with it make true drama possible . |
| 22 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 23 | For him to make that sort of joke on the recording was in keeping with the impression Charles was beginning to form of his character . |
| 24 | As he pushed away the empty plates she waited for him to make some comment about the meal . |
| 25 | In spite of my appeals for him to make some effort to intervene with the King , who could often attain success with a father bent on violent punishment , Kareem dismissed my cries of alarm with unconcealed irritation and insisted the subject be dropped . |
| 26 | She was waiting for him to make some reply , and he said slowly : ‘ I guess you must be homesick , now Captain Dawson is n't here . ’ |
| 27 | And even Gazzer did not appreciate the strength of character it needed for her to make that choice . |
| 28 | Notices attached to them make this plain . |
| 29 | The teachers ' accounts of what happened to them make disturbing reading . |
| 30 | Some of these proposals seems to me to make great sense . |