Example sentences of "[pers pn] make [adj] [noun] [subord] " 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 | he reckons I make better pastry than what I . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ You make more money than most people in this town , ’ Bernard snapped . |
| 6 | ‘ If anything , you make more fuss than I do . ’ |
| 7 | ( 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 . ) |
| 8 | She made hurried inquiries as to Zambia 's progress , to which Tammuz responded carefully , alerted by her mood . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We 'll hand out some paper this is not to make one of these long lists or anything , it 's basically to help you to make some notes if you wi , require to do so . |
| 11 | Our profits are disappointingly small in relation to , er er , the , er first half of last year er then , we had buoyant conditions and we made more money than we ever had before . |
| 12 | And sometimes we make that mistake as though speaking in tongues was the Holy Spirit . |
| 13 | We make this comparison because the papers NNS and NN , which analysed the same data set , also used income variables in the utility function ( as in Model 4 ) , not just benefits and earnings . |
| 14 | They made rough notes as they did this . |
| 15 | However , they made little impact until in the mid-1960s the Milk Marketing Board began to notice that many of its top AI dairy bulls seemed to have plenty of Canadian blood in them . |
| 16 | ‘ He says they should save old newspapers because , I quote , ‘ folded up tight they make good logs for the fire and , in extremis ’ — that 's what he says , the fucker , in extremis — ‘ they make better insulation than wool . ’ ‘ |
| 17 | They make these suggestions because , ‘ Well , that 's what people do at conferences , is n't it ? ’ |
| 18 | These blooming ears they make more trouble than they 're wor , erm , than they 're worth ! |
| 19 | They waited beside me making worried encouragements until the ambulance arrived from the direction of Reading . |
| 20 | trembling when he made that speech when he remember when he , remember when you , you were n't there , no you were n't there he was shaking like a leaf . |
| 21 | Because he made that statement when discussing the concentric spheres with which Aristotle had built the cosmos , he was evidently aware that authoritative world-pictures were not inviolable . |
| 22 | If you ask me he made bloody enquiry while he were here ! |
| 23 | The Department of Transport report says he made several errors while demonstrating a hover manoevre resulting in the crash . |
| 24 | Levine , an investment banker at a prestigious Wall Street firm , was alleged to have been involved in insider trading over a period of six years , during which time he made huge profits while trading on the basis of material nonpublic information in the securities of companies . |
| 25 | Already he was beginning to steal glances at the clock , comparing it needlessly with his own watch , missing bits of the film while he made rapid calculations as to whether he might conceivably be able to see Bridget home , and , when this had become out of the question , as to how long they would have to say good night at the hated corner . |
| 26 | He made idle banter as they watched for the van , and Doyle grimaced and complained about the lack of ‘ peace and quiet ’ in that particular car at that particular time . |
| 27 | And would it make much difference if the pact only covered a limited number of seats ? |
| 28 | Since the Constitution of a country is only a part of that country 's whole system of government , does it make any difference whether a country has a Constitution or not ? |
| 29 | If that is so should it make any difference whether the debtor is a party to the agreement ( he is not a party to the contract ) or not ? |
| 30 | Would it make any difference if the second extract was rewritten with referring expressions instead of repetition ? |