Example sentences of "[noun pl] do [adv] make [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His words did not make sense at all .
2 your teenagers do n't make ships and things now , they do n't want
3 It is an important skill because even experienced pilots do occasionally make approaches which are far too high and which can be redeemed if they can side-slip quickly and accurately .
4 How can we get the message across that counsellors do not make judgements , do not tell people what to do , do not try to force clients to sustain marriages which are no longer sustainable ?
5 At present , many health workers do not make use of the information that can take up to 60 per cent of their time to record on forms and in registers .
6 Unionists did though make war service a main plank of their electioneering whenever they had the chance .
7 History argues that when Arabs and Israelis do not make peace they will make war : there have already been five and a half since Israel 's founding .
8 ‘ I came , I saw , I was conquered , to mistranslate the mighty Caesar , ’ Hope went on , puffing a little uphill — curious that his heavy exercises did not make country walking more comfortable — and hoping that Mr Crump had not heard that hackneyed quip too often — ‘ and who could resist the lake , the hills , the trees , the flowers , the birds . ’
9 Its calculations are all relatively local ones : neurones do not make contact with other neurones at any great distance in the same cortical region .
10 But then God 's commands do n't make sense if we try and look at them with twentieth-century attitudes .
11 Yet German setbacks did not make Franco rush to embrace the Allied cause .
12 Bees do n't make honey by talking . ’
13 Men , of course , would not make friends with a single mother for the reason that men do not make friends .
14 Some of the most common ones have sneaked into everyday language , e.g. ‘ Men do n't make passes at girls who wear glasses ’ , or ‘ Redheads are hotheads . ’
15 In the 1980s free-flowing , borderless markets did indeed make borrowing and capital-raising appear easier .
16 ‘ Do n't you see , ’ her mother explained , drawing her close with an arm around her bony shoulders , ‘ you 'll be looking after boys soon and things are just like they say , boys do n't make passes at girls who wear glasses . ’
17 Human beings did not make slugs or crabs .
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