Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheriff Charles Palmer deferred sentence for six months for Gilmartin to make a donation of £100 . |
| 2 | Yesterday , the Secretary of State for Scotland made a statement condemning local councils for overspending . |
| 3 | Will the Leader of the House arrange for the Secretary of State for Scotland to make a statement next week on his handling of the planning process within Scotland in advance of the proposed local inquiry into the construction of a bridge to Skye ? |
| 4 | The banks have until the end of February to make a decision if Heron is to continue to meet its obligations . |
| 5 | The family firm of Swannson-on-Wheels made a contract with Computex Ltd by exchange of correspondence , The following extract taken from a letter dated 30 July 1985 on Computex Ltd headed notepaper gives the essential terms of the haulage contract : |
| 6 | Venice , intensely touchy about its international status , was particularly liable to take umbrage if one of its representatives were not offered such a present or were offered one of less value than expected : the failure of the duke of Savoy to make a gift to a departing Venetian ambassador in 1603 , for example , aroused notably bad feeling in the republic . |
| 7 | We had a little chat with Unix System Labs president Roel Pieper last week and he did n't exactly rule out the possibility of USL making a takeover move on Santa Cruz Operation Inc ( UX No 396 ) : however , he said , it would n't be a good business value unless both firms were committed to going in the same direction . |
| 8 | The building , which was designed to accommodate 200 paupers , cost £5,000 in all , for which the Duke of Bedford made a loan of £2,000 and Samuel Whitbread one of £800 . |
| 9 | Well you got you got three months from the date of termination which you can take as effect from the twenty second of June to make a claim to the industrial tribunal . |
| 10 | When an organization invites the Prince or Princess of Wales to make a speech on their behalf , it is customary for them to write a draft , incorporating any appropriate facts and figures or particular message that they want conveyed in the speech . |
| 11 | The Princess of Wales makes a solo visit to Egypt where she is pictured alone in front of the pyramids . |
| 12 | As far as he could see , Viola Machin 's marriage had followed a familiar pattern : begun from sheer sexual passion , aggravated by loneliness and perhaps desertion , it had quickly gone sour ; it sounded as if Viola had suffered disillusion and frustration — the sexual side had not proved enough , and other aspirations , social ones perhaps , or aspirations of Walter making a mark in the literary world , had not been fulfilled . |
| 13 | Perhaps he was waiting for Gabriel to make a bolt for freedom , or to denounce his masters from the stage as murderers and charlatans . |
| 14 | Yesterday afternoon Charles was already in Scotland to make a keynote speech at the prestigious Caird Hall in Dundee . |
| 15 | Six weeks ago they sent me off to Paisley College in Scotland to make a radio report on a new course at its Alcohol Studies Centre : the intoxication workshop . |
| 16 | I 'm pleased the NCC bought the mountain , since a commercial forestry firm had plans to cover the whole area in vile rows of sitka spruces to help chat-show hosts and snooker players in England make a killing on their tax bills . |
| 17 | It was one of the earliest books published in England to make a plea for religious toleration . |
| 18 | She offered me a number I could ring in Chicago to make a claim for making a call to Chicago . |
| 19 | Dr Mohamed Zairi was invited by the Confederation of Indian Industry ( CII ) and the Institute of Directors in India to make a tour of India between 3 and 18 February 1992 . |
| 20 | We glimpse Raulinus , for example , who came from Devon in the mid-thirteenth century , wasted time as a student in Paris for two years and then came on to Bologna making a living copying manuscripts , drinking and writing love poems to Meldina . |
| 21 | ‘ I told him I 'm very happy he came back to Europe to make a film for a change . |
| 22 | Seventy-two years ago , the Germans shipped Lenin in a sealed train , like a dangerous bacillus , from Switzerland to Petrograd to make a revolution . |
| 23 | A Japanese television company came to Oxford to make a documentary comparing student life here with that at Harvard . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know , Mr Caretaker , about Canon Sylvester 's house keys , as if his going to Rome makes a difference . ’ |
| 25 | Undoubtably you will come across Koopas making a getaway on a skateboard , bike , balloon , or whatever . |
| 26 | The last thing she had wanted was for Luke to make a pass at her . |
| 27 | The room was elegant and , although comfortably and expensively furnished , was free from clutter and without any of the personal touches that for Rachel made a house a home . |
| 28 | An interesting variant in the Polartec range of fabrics is Polartec 100 Micro , a thin , velvet — like fabric , used by Sprayway to make a fleece cum shirt ; a versatile looking garment . |