Example sentences of "[pers pn] make [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 2 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 3 | Should I make fresh efforts to get him back ? |
| 4 | Planning for the fateful flight started several weeks earlier when I made tentative arrangements to visit a microlight manufacturer at Membury airfield in Berkshire for the review of the Chevron which appears in this issue . |
| 5 | My son spent a year at Liphook Junior School , during which time my husband and I made frequent visits to discuss our concerns regarding this apparent lack of progress . |
| 6 | I made violent splashes to attract his attention ; he circled until a rescue launch picked me up , some 30 to 45 minutes later . |
| 7 | Back that the al-Rasheed hotel , where I was staying , I made sporadic efforts to escape this undercurrent of hysteria . |
| 8 | Now I make enough money to pay others to help at home and queue for me . |
| 9 | She made strenuous efforts to tame her behaviour when she was indoors , never rattling her earrings during Mass , nor racing along the stone corridors as if they were open fields . |
| 10 | Throughout most of her reign , and particularly in its early years , she made strenuous efforts to show herself an adherent of advanced theories of government and of the ideas of the French Enlightenment in general . |
| 11 | She made fresh tapes to play in the car , and grinned at the luxury of traffic jams in the company of Louis Prima and Sidney Bechet . |
| 12 | Then , realising that it did n't take much for this man to get to her , she made sterner efforts to get herself more of one piece and , returning her hand to her lap , she drew out of nowhere , ‘ Not everybody can wear contact lenses , ’ and added for a touch of authenticity , ‘ I ca n't myself . ’ |
| 13 | Leith could feel her anger straining at the leash at his sarcastic comment , but she made enormous efforts to stay cool . |
| 14 | Did you make any attempt to get me free ? ’ |
| 15 | She liked me , I could tell ; otherwise why would she make such efforts to demonstrate that she was n't interested ? |
| 16 | " Have you made any effort to go and see the plaintiff there , Mrs James ? |
| 17 | Not once had she made any attempt to respond to his initiatives . |
| 18 | With our increasing clarity of the racism we faced daily , we made tentative overtures to involve ourselves in Black women 's activities . |
| 19 | Continuing up the easy gradient of the ridge we made frequent stops to admire the icy crest and fearsome north west face of Chamlang , soaring skywards . |
| 20 | Our work proceeds by trying to model this ocean atmosphere system and initially we made these models to develop an understanding but it turned out that the models worked pretty well to make predictions . |
| 21 | Only that we would want all students to experience these things to the fullest , so that they all have varied and rich experiences in all these spheres , and that we make special efforts to provide the time and space for the students to explore and develop their abilities and inclinations to learn and develop personal qualities without being directed . |
| 22 | Nor did we make much effort to match the potent appeal of Tory policies on privatisation and council house sales . |
| 23 | However , they made various sorties to test Great Britain 's coastal defences : as early as 1914 , German squadrons had bombarded the Norfolk coast and , farther north , Scarborough and Whitby in Yorkshire . |
| 24 | ‘ They are enchanted by him , and that is why they made special arrangements to bring him home to the United States . ’ |
| 25 | United though were their own worst enemies … they made enough chances to win but then went and missed them |
| 26 | United though were their own worst enemies … they made enough chances to win but then went and missed them |
| 27 | When planted in threes or fives they make good clumps to grow and flower above other plantings . |
| 28 | They will sink unless they make positive moves to arrest the slide . |
| 29 | In spite of my appeals for him to make some effort to intervene with the King , who could often attain success with a father bent on violent punishment , Kareem dismissed my cries of alarm with unconcealed irritation and insisted the subject be dropped . |
| 30 | He made great efforts to include Dexter in the conversation , the sergeant noticed , embracing him in his replies . |