Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in all honesty ans answer what he said , you more or less made a statement and said yes I am er but I , I know all about the products and I 'll give you best advice . |
| 2 | You may wish to give yourself up , or possibly make a getaway through the window . |
| 3 | There are farmers who with the existing lack of any political support are looking at different avenues to improve their profits or even make a profit . |
| 4 | You could choose a plain dark colour and cover it with a pale piece of lace , or even make a patchwork background on which to place your flowers . |
| 5 | We are some way yet from Autumn but that is no reason not to consider the way we can change colours on the needlebed to use up left over yarn or simply make a splash with colours we 've always wanted to knit together . |
| 6 | Futures and options funds are emerging , offering at last the chance to lose all of your investment or maybe to make a lot . |
| 7 | We had a Debating Society in school which was pretty tough — if you dropped clangers , missed the point or otherwise made a clown of yourself , it was remembered throughout the following week until you had a chance to redeem yourself . |
| 8 | This teleprinter machine was a temperamental beast and had to be carefully watched to make sure it did n't run out of paper , or chew it into shreds or otherwise make a mess of things , and it was one of our duties as Met Assistants to keep it in order . |
| 9 | " supply " is defined in s46 to include : ( a ) selling , hiring out or lending the goods ; ( b ) entering into a hire-purchase agreement to furnish the goods ; ( c ) the performance of any contract for work and materials to furnish the goods ; ( d ) providing the goods in exchange for any consideration ( including trading stamps ) other than money ; ( e ) providing the goods in or in connection with the performance of any statutory function ; or ( f ) giving the goods as a prize or otherwise making a gift of the goods . |
| 10 | If he proposes to say something new , I hope that , as the guardian of the interests of all parts of the House , you Mr. Speaker , will make representations to try to make sure that he does it in the House rather than just making a speech or holding a press conference , even if it is in Wales . |
| 11 | There was a book called The Young Visitors that once made a lot of money . ’ |
| 12 | Ianthe was not the type to pour herself a glass of sherry or gin as soon as she got home after a day 's work , nor yet to make a cup of tea . |
| 13 | As part of its contribution to " Helping the Earth Week " ( 17-23 October ) , the UK Department of the Environment has launched a campaign to encourage householders to improve energy efficiency in the home and thereby to make a contribution to reducing global warming . |
| 14 | Therefore , this project in addition to providing results of importance for econometric theory , should provide methods of importance for modelling strategies in economics and related disciplines , and so make a contribution towards improving the average standard of empirical research . |
| 15 | Rovers were 2-0 in the opening 15 minutes through Morrissey and John Aldridge and perhaps made a rod for their own backs by scoring so early and then failing to add to that lead until the 77th minute through Neil McNab . |
| 16 | Will the Foreign Secretary keep the House informed and perhaps make a statement when the House returns after the recess ? |
| 17 | and erm , he 's got in the , in the fabric one he 's got double doors and all the rolls of carpet and erm , he 's got a table in there and obviously to make a cup of tea , got a couple of beds in there cos he 's sold them and it 's like a big warehouse and erm all around there there 's a big concreted area , you know , and er all these units and that 's where we , we reckon it is . |
| 18 | It was the same sort of hysteria after the Hungerford massacre which persuaded a weak and inexperienced Home Secretary to give the police unfettered discretion to bully , terrorise and generally make a nuisance of themselves among law-abiding sportsmen . |
| 19 | These organize the workers into teams , get the contracts , control the funds — and generally make a packet . |
| 20 | A new word was recently coined to describe bodies such as English heritage : quangaroos — hopping about in a random fashion , getting in everyone 's way and generally making a nuisance of themselves at good rates of public pay . |
| 21 | Visitors may adopt an animal and thus make a contribution towards the cost of that animal 's upkeep . |
| 22 | ‘ I have sometimes thought that more might be done than is commonly attempted in education to familiarise the idea of death to the minds of children by representing it as the grand event for which they were born ; and thus making a future state the object of their chief interest and ambition . |
| 23 | A Home Office spokesman said : ‘ He went with two prison officers to see a relative and just made a run for it . ’ |
| 24 | William Trood was also an intrepid traveller , and once made a trip to Morocco , where he was presented with a silver-inlaid Damascus sword by the Sultan of Morocco . |
| 25 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 26 | Two weeks on the beach at Mombasa , not in a hotel of course , but in the bungalow of an old friend who had survived freedom and independence in Kenya and still made a living out of East Africa 's import and export trade . |
| 27 | You can be schizophrenic and still make a will that . |
| 28 | Unlike a jet operator , the owner of a piston-powered airliner can offer that motor manufacturer ( and other operations like him ) a relatively low fee to have an aircraft packed-out just awaiting the customer 's whim and still make a profit . |
| 29 | Can farmers cut spraying and still make a living ? |
| 30 | A cat may approach its human owner and purposely make a nuisance of itself in a way that it has learnt will cause anger . |