Example sentences of "[pers pn] could make [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could make no further headway with the landlord so I made enquiries amongst the other customers : a beggar who whined for alms inside the doorway and a greasy-haired knave , but they only repeated what the landlord had said . |
| 2 | Ten years ago I could make a reasonable job of most Shads ' numbers . |
| 3 | If I could make a suitable deal … |
| 4 | But I think I could make a good country record . |
| 5 | ‘ I have this idea of running a foster home , I think I could make a good job . |
| 6 | I mean if I could make a general point . |
| 7 | When I was asked by John Wakeham to join AEA as a part-time member in 1988 , it was clear that it would to help lead a similar re-orientation and I felt I could make a useful contribution . |
| 8 | I can draw some sides just like I can put I could make a just draw neatly in the teams bi on a big piece of paper that 'll make it look really good , . |
| 9 | ‘ What did you want me to do , Naomi , tell you to look deep into my eyes so I could make a formal introduction ? ’ |
| 10 | When Sam Phillips , founder of Sun Records and ‘ creator ’ of Elvis Presley , said , ‘ If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel , I could make a billion dollars ’ ( quoted in Hopkins 1971 : 66 ) , the twin motivations , artistic and commercial , were not separated or separable . |
| 11 | No , we 've got them sort of standing up on , on the top of our book shelf I suppose I could make a few lanterns for in here for Christmas . |
| 12 | I could make a few inspired guesses that the machinery will get , not so much cheaper , although it is getting a bit cheaper , but you 'll get more for the same money — rather like calculators _ they have n't actually got very much cheaper in the last two or three years , but you get more for your fiver . |
| 13 | I wanted to wait until the pictures were developed and until I could make a written report . ’ |
| 14 | I could make a fair guess . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ My lips are not yet unsealed , but if these troubles were over and I could make a full case I guarantee there is not a man that would go into the lobby against us . ’ |
| 16 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 17 | You say I could make a veterinary nurse — that 's as maybe , but I 'm sure I 'd never be any good as a vet . ’ |
| 18 | If things were out in the open — and St Mirren did offer to meet any condition if I would stay — then I could make an honest decision about my future . |
| 19 | I wish I could make an unconditional ‘ yes ’ to God the way she did . |
| 20 | ‘ The decided to fight her case for her so she could make a good job of it , ’ Mr Robinson claimed . |
| 21 | And Polly always used to say how good Lynn was , reckoned she could make a good career in designer living . |
| 22 | She herself had long abandoned Highbury to be with her Miss Dinah ; not only was she devoted to the children , but she could make a little money by letting her own house . |
| 23 | She could make a small amount singing , or whatever . |
| 24 | She could make a unique work of art out of the simplest dance , as fragments filmed in the 1920s show . |
| 25 | Perhaps Elena thought that if she was in sole charge she could make a proper tyrant out of him . |
| 26 | I mean , she 's an attractive girl , so she is , despite her ideas , and she could make a pretty penny out of her looks . |
| 27 | She did n't dare raise her head to look through the window in case she was spotted , but at least from here she could make a fair guess at where Adam and the stranger were located in the room . |
| 28 | You could make no better start than the Ridgeway national trail , running from Overton Hill in Wiltshire to Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire . |
| 29 | you could make a complete Christmas stable scene with shepherds in ‘ homespun ’ knitting , angels , the three Kings in bejewelled lace , Mary in a blue robe and white veil and Joseph in brown or dark green . |
| 30 | You could make a dotted something out of that group of three notes . |