Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You 're going to help me make to make a birthday cake for Jim remember .
2 None of them has made a hash of things like the British government .
3 Do I want to make a will
4 ‘ I can see I 've made a fool of myself again .
5 I mean to make a contribution .
6 Yet somehow Edward must be appeased , so I sought to make a virtue of my ignorance , asking questions that would allow him to air his greater experience .
7 I tried to make a bonfire with them on the lawn .
8 I tried to make a joke out of it .
9 I tried to make a joke out of it .
10 At first I tried to make a comparison between a large northern comprehensive school and a smaller London church school .
11 I expect to make a statement any day now .
12 I expect to make a lot of money , ’ she said coolly , sitting down to pour .
13 And , I mean , even when I say make a cup of tea
14 But on one pleasure note , I want to make a plug for the Making Out series .
15 I want to make a weave going into the top as one in n it ?
16 I 've just had a telephone sales call to see if I want to make a will .
17 I want to make a will .
18 I want to make a call to …
19 Er I want , I want to make a casserole have you got either a neck of lamb or an ox tail or something like that ?
20 Now when I look back on that part of my life , I want to make a film and call it The Loneliness of the Long Distance Latent Lesbian .
21 " I want to make a film ! " he said
22 I want to make a phone call . ’
23 Before we go on to explore in some detail how the Stress Syndrome comes about I want to make a couple of general points .
24 Watson , for whom The Mirror helped raise £150,000 in a special appeal night in July , is being cared for in an East London neurological rehabilitation unit , added : ‘ I am here until next March — it 's driving me crazy because I want to make a comeback .
25 Ooh I want to make a note of this phone number .
26 Er Chairman I want to make a point relative , very quick point relative to the northern bypass so Mr said that officers are proceeding with the preparation of possible routes , will you undertake that er members be er , er advised of er these discussions before it reaches committee stage ?
27 I stopped to make a phone call , and I thought I 'd better drop off some clothes at the dry-cleaner 's . ’
28 If I stopped making a noise , someone from the farm would soon be along to see what I was doing . ’
29 I was proving to the convenor that I 'd made a mark opposite that deliverance on which to call you .
30 I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’
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