Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] make [adj] [noun] " 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 | But , even when people have had spells of very bad illness , they may still live for many years and there will be time for them to make good plans for their children . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But Britain 's Vice-Consul Harold Jenkins told me : ‘ Sadly it may be quite impossible for them to make positive identifications . ’ |
| 5 | They were they were asking for them to make more slates for for less money and they were n't prepared to sit down and really talk it through with the men they just treated you know they just had this awful attitude |
| 6 | Perhaps the brothers had waited in vain for me to make some retraction . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Many of them make regular trips to the filmset where it was all put together , at Portmeirion in Wales . |
| 9 | It was noticeable that many of them made emotive comments when addressing this question ( for example , ‘ a last resort ’ , or ‘ a place for old people to go when nobody else wants them ’ ) , a reflection possibly of their personal involvement with the residents of the home and concern for their well-being . |
| 10 | Had any of them made any approaches to her ? |
| 11 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 12 | None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture . |
| 13 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 14 | Hugh with his hair wet , carrying Jacqueline and leading his two other daughters , all of them making wet footmarks on the stone floor , came in from the terrace . |
| 15 | Everything and something and nothing are all logically interlinked and none of them makes clear sense without the others . |
| 16 | None of them fit together , none of them makes any sense . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Try to have your progress reviewed regularly with your nurse manager , so that neither of you makes misleading assumptions about your ability to cope or happiness in the job . |
| 20 | His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading . |
| 21 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 22 | None of it made any sense . |
| 23 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 24 | But none of it made any difference . |
| 25 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When we hear the word ‘ power ’ some of us make strong associations with fear , deprivation and a loss of control . |
| 29 | Obviously a figure higher than that would take some pressure of us to make those incursions into the green belt , a lower figure conversely would require us to make higher la larger incursions into our greenbelt . |
| 30 | Your doctor and the hospital will arrange for you to make regular visits for antenatal care . |