Example sentences of "[pers pn] make [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 I made some toast and a cup of tea .
5 I made some bets and they came good .
6 I made some comment and he bit my head off .
7 It 's that stuff I made last year and
8 I make Total Recall and I 'm grilled for the violence .
9 You make that assumption and it 's it 's essential to your case , is that is that fair ?
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 If you make any error and mis-strike the ball , the results are usually disastrous .
13 Said Mademoiselle , and you make this fuss and call out so loudly that we all jump in fear .
14 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 .
15 She made accurate notes and made it clear what was fact and what was her opinion .
16 Number five became so terrified she made more mistakes and prayed to God that the dance would never finish .
17 She made little dresses and pinafores for Lily and Corrie , but Corrie 's were decorated with ribbons and lace .
18 Finally she made some grunts and said : ‘ Globol obol ookle ogle globol gloogle gloo . ’ )
19 You made quarter-hour points and you did n't know where the sergeant was going to pick you up .
20 Did you make any enquiries and if so what enquiries , to try to find out who the occupiers ?
21 Would you make different choices and decisions about how to organise your daily life ?
22 So , how do you make this change and ensure a balanced diet ?
23 She makes negative prints and she manipulates photographic materials with acid .
24 This publication aims to help you to make sensible decisions and choices about alcohol so that it gives pleasure without putting anyone 's health at risk .
25 The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace .
26 We made some changes and they worked and then we made some changes that did not work .
27 We make stupid mistakes and end up with rotten little capers like this one .
28 To establish 1.9.16 we make some definitions and proofs relating to Z[x] .
29 We have then to note that , unless we make these extensions and qualifications , ‘ ideology ’ , even and perhaps especially in some powerful contemporary tendencies in Marxist analysis , is in effect repeating the history of ‘ culture ’ as a concept .
30 I make the point because , in the report that we are debating , we make several recommendations and we wish the Government to take them more seriously than those that we made in the past .
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