Example sentences of "[pers pn] make [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them make regular trips to the filmset where it was all put together , at Portmeirion in Wales . |
| 2 | Had any of them made any approaches to her ? |
| 3 | None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture . |
| 4 | I made 27 calls to Central Office , of which the best was the last . |
| 5 | ‘ Then last night I made this promise to him . |
| 6 | Naturally , when I made this suggestion to St John and his sisters , they protested strongly , and it was with great difficulty that I finally managed to convince them of my firm intention to carry out this plan . |
| 7 | There was , of course , a great deal of fun as well , and I made some contribution to the musical life of INSEAD by setting up an 11-piece band which played at the summer ball amongst other events . |
| 8 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 9 | I made some comm-calls to contacts on planets here and there , pretending to some that I was looking for commissions , to others that I was in different parts of the galaxy transporting things for different people . |
| 10 | Never having been one to look an unguarded telephone in the mouth , I made another call to the number on the Exhilarator brochure I 'd taken from Salome 's case . |
| 11 | As I made these suggestions to her , I was continually reminding her that she was feeling very relaxed and comfortable and that she was in complete control of the situation and need do nothing ( even in her imagination ) that she did not choose to . |
| 12 | To get a wider picture than I had obtained from the local bookshops I made special journeys to various places , and acquired every library book I came across , only restricting myself by not acquiring more than one book from each library . |
| 13 | During a week 's stay under the ranges I made daily visits to this rich arboretum , which would have served me to investigate until this time without exhausting its treasures ; but , alas ! our provisions failing , we were obliged to re-trace our steps . ’ |
| 14 | I make frequent visits to the Killearn workshop and I need a base for when I 'm in Scotland . |
| 15 | In conclusion , I make this plea to countries such as Germany — a country for which I have the highest regard : they should be cautious about promising recognition for Croatia and Slovenia by any precise date , and about breaking ranks within the European Community . |
| 16 | I make this plea to the Base Commander to keep his aircraft from flying until we know the results of a thorough investigation . |
| 17 | It is best if you make each drawing to the same scale . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , you make regular contributions to a pension plan which undertakes to pay your mortgage off when you retire . |
| 19 | And , do n't forget that if you make substantial improvements to your home , it may increase its value . |
| 20 | ‘ But if you make another monster to be my friend , we wo n't hurt anyone . |
| 21 | If you make any alterations to Windows , like changing the wallpaper , these new settings are stored in one of the INI files . |
| 22 | If you make any change to your booking within 6 weeks of departure date then the change will be treated as a cancellation and the cancellation charges shown in paragraph 4 will apply . |
| 23 | At Duns Sheriff Court , Sheriff James Paterson warned 34-year-old Mary Warnock , of Stobswood , Duns , that unless she made substantial inroads to the total within 12 months , she would face a prison sentence . |
| 24 | She remained in Paris during World War I , though she made frequent trips to the Brittany coast , where she did profoundly moving drawings of children . |
| 25 | I was rather devastated when she told me she was moving to Crieff , as she made major contributions to the work of the Library here ; she had a long-term future , and her personality made many friends for the Library among our users . |
| 26 | She made 2 complaints to the review panel . |
| 27 | She made numerous complaints to her manager , who happened to be male , what did he do ? |
| 28 | She made full answers to all of them . |
| 29 | But Liz had never mentioned that Ross was so staggeringly good-looking ; nor had she made any reference to his devastating physical impact , although , to be fair , since both she and her cousin had only just finished taking their final college examinations , they 'd hardly been able to spend any time together before the wedding . |
| 30 | When its heroine , Dorothea , first entertains the illusion that marriage to Mr Casaubon will confer upon the everyday-the aspect of great things , she makes one exception to the frustration of her efforts as a single woman to lead a significant life in that period in England : ‘ I do n't feel sure about doing good in any way now ; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I do n't know ; — unless it were building good cottages — there can be no doubt about that . ’ |