Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to 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 Do I want to make a will
3 I mean to make a contribution .
4 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 .
5 I tried to make a bonfire with them on the lawn .
6 I tried to make a joke out of it .
7 I tried to make a joke out of it .
8 At first I tried to make a comparison between a large northern comprehensive school and a smaller London church school .
9 I expect to make a statement any day now .
10 I expect to make a lot of money , ’ she said coolly , sitting down to pour .
11 But on one pleasure note , I want to make a plug for the Making Out series .
12 I want to make a weave going into the top as one in n it ?
13 I 've just had a telephone sales call to see if I want to make a will .
14 I want to make a will .
15 I want to make a call to …
16 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 ?
17 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 .
18 " I want to make a film ! " he said
19 I want to make a phone call . ’
20 Before we go on to explore in some detail how the Stress Syndrome comes about I want to make a couple of general points .
21 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 .
22 Ooh I want to make a note of this phone number .
23 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 ?
24 I stopped to make a phone call , and I thought I 'd better drop off some clothes at the dry-cleaner 's . ’
25 It 's probably because of Grizedale Forest in the Lake District that I manage to make a living as a sculptor .
26 I began to make a list .
27 Was I wrong to make a fuss ?
28 Was I wrong to make a fuss ?
29 I decided to make a development of a circular pedestal table that we made for a client last year .
30 Being a cautious kind of chap , I decided to make a phone call before reaching before reaching for my cheque book .
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