Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to make some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to make some enquiries . ’ |
| 2 | I struggled to make some sense of this new and appalling complication . |
| 3 | when I went to make some jam tarts . |
| 4 | I left them together while I went to make some coffee , and when I came back into the room , Shanti was saying , ‘ Patsy , where do I get my big feet from ? |
| 5 | I felt that I had to make some sort of social effort so I swung my legs off the bed and sat sheepishly on the edge . |
| 6 | I had to make some sort of last-ditch stand . |
| 7 | She decided to make some changes and embarked on a quest which took her to , among other places , an ashram in Wales and a three-week ‘ Relationships Seminar ’ in Hawaii ( price $8,000 ) run by an American called Chuck Spezzano . |
| 8 | But you chose to make some rules . |
| 9 | She put the telephone down on the floor and knelt beside it , facing Shildon and saying Tavett was in trouble and she had to make some calls . |
| 10 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 11 | The inclusion of these provisions in the plan were referred to by Rafsanjani in a speech on Oct. 8 , when he reported that " we decided to make some amendments in the plan ( which had been completed in an earlier draft form by the previous government of Prime Minister Hossein Moussavi ) under the new atmosphere " . |
| 12 | We improve our operating margins , reduced our bad debts , and even though we had to make some reductions in numbers , the reorganisation costs were down on 1991 . |
| 13 | So as a result of that because it 's been erm changed in the nineteenth century the eighteen forties and eighteen fifties , architectural historians who we who were faced with a real problem with York cos York had something like fifty medieval churches and erm er about thirty of them surviving into into the twentieth century , erm and they had to make some decisions about which ones to preserve and which ones to let go . |
| 14 | Richardson said they wanted to make some copies , and he and North and North 's aides copied the stack between them . |
| 15 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , he tried to make some sense of Steen 's behaviour . |
| 16 | He thought to make some tea . |
| 17 | He woke in a fury two hours afterward , and said that she had upset his rhythm and that he had to make some calls . |
| 18 | He felt he had to make some kind of protest , no matter how feeble . |
| 19 | He wanted to leave now too , but he had to make some kind of contact with the dead man first . |
| 20 | She told him that they could n't possibly stay down here , and that he had to make some effort to escape . |
| 21 | Although he had to make some concessions , he has declared himself by and large satisfied . |
| 22 | What he had done , he had done because he wanted to make some contribution , pay back to society the great debt he felt by being born to such privilege . |
| 23 | One evening he said he 'd like me to fetch him the following morning , as he wanted to make some bread . |