Example sentences of "[pers pn] make [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was noticeable that many of them made emotive comments when addressing this question ( for example , ‘ a last resort ’ , or ‘ a place for old people to go when nobody else wants them ’ ) , a reflection possibly of their personal involvement with the residents of the home and concern for their well-being . |
| 2 | I made two attempts but they both failed , each time my fear of water proved too much . |
| 3 | I felt she desperately needed my help , and I made frequent visits and tried innumerable remedies I consulted my colleague Siegfried on the problem and he suggested a diet of charcoal biscuits . |
| 4 | On that , I think it is generally known , that we , that Telford was n't anywhere near the top of the list , and it had been taken purely on the question of the er , needs of the various areas , it 's unlikely that Telford would have succeeded , even with its reduced geographical area , but I made discrete enquiries and was told that the factor which tipped er , the Commission in favour of Telford , and this has an important bearing on what we 're going to discuss later , was the fact that Telford has been very good in taking up schemes and providing their section , and not just the Wreakin District Council , other area , other bodies in Telford , of getting good innovative schemes off the ground and providing the cash , they did n't , as some areas did , get the status , and then hardly do anything about it . |
| 5 | Then dad and I made some cakes and I put notices about the sale through the neighbours ' doors in Swadlincote in Derbyshire , where we live . |
| 6 | I made some toast and a cup of tea . |
| 7 | I made some bets and they came good . |
| 8 | I made some comment and he bit my head off . |
| 9 | It 's that stuff I made last year and |
| 10 | Later on in my schooling life I made more friends but there has been a lot of falling outs , but we always make up again . |
| 11 | I make Total Recall and I 'm grilled for the violence . |
| 12 | he reckons I make better pastry than what I . |
| 13 | I make this point because I am sure that during his year of office he will continue his fight against injustice and let officers of the Council and the Labour Group be aware . |
| 14 | I make this declaration because one of my aims in this discussion is to show that we do not need to share other people 's beliefs in order to understand them sympathetically : we can see the sense in beliefs even when we are convinced they are based upon false premisses . |
| 15 | You make that assumption and it 's it 's essential to your case , is that is that fair ? |
| 16 | but as she said you if you make twenty arrangements and you sell half of them you just about break even with the flowers you 've bought to do them . |
| 17 | So , you finish the conversation , and you just flick the handset , you flick the black button in other words , you do n't fully put the handset down , so you flick the black button and you make another call and the camp on does n't mature , it does n't seem to mature because it does n't seem to be long enough for the computer to recognise that the conversation has ended . |
| 18 | If you make any error and mis-strike the ball , the results are usually disastrous . |
| 19 | ‘ You make more money than most people in this town , ’ Bernard snapped . |
| 20 | ‘ If anything , you make more fuss than I do . ’ |
| 21 | ( Try thinking about your finger movements when you play a well-known tune on a keyboard — you make more mistakes than if you let your fingers do the thinking . ) |
| 22 | Said Mademoiselle , and you make this fuss and call out so loudly that we all jump in fear . |
| 23 | She made hurried inquiries as to Zambia 's progress , to which Tammuz responded carefully , alerted by her mood . |
| 24 | It 's a three-day Congress er and what we do in our Guild , we have , we had a house party on a Tuesday night and she 's told me she made twenty-six Pounds and erm we , we send our , our delegate Congress with that money you see , er because you see , er women would not if you could n't say you could sponsor them . |
| 25 | She made accurate notes and made it clear what was fact and what was her opinion . |
| 26 | Number five became so terrified she made more mistakes and prayed to God that the dance would never finish . |
| 27 | She made little dresses and pinafores for Lily and Corrie , but Corrie 's were decorated with ribbons and lace . |
| 28 | Finally she made some grunts and said : ‘ Globol obol ookle ogle globol gloogle gloo . ’ ) |
| 29 | He was perpetually in the grip of some obscure , niggling , unexplained bitterness , which led him to repudiate most of the overtures which Clara would from time to time make towards him ; she made these attempts because she was less frightened of him than she was of her mother , and she did on one or two occasions — the purchase of a bicycle , permission to go to the cinema — manage to enlist his sympathies . |
| 30 | You made quarter-hour points and you did n't know where the sergeant was going to pick you up . |