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

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1 Can I make one more suggestion one , to combine two of these to call it Southwell Centenary Park , would that make it any better ?
2 Depressed people can of course make hasty and unwise decisions , and I made one such decision when , during my second term at Berkeley , I decided to give up my London flat .
3 I am sorry , I forgot that I made one more telephone call — to Mr. Sellars , the Lothian region 's further education expert .
4 I made two more visits to Knowlton , and it has now become a focus for my own particular pilgrimage .
5 Perhaps the only mistake I made all those years ago was not realising what an anti-democratic medium television would prove to be .
6 I mean it 's interesting I mean I , I made all those comments earlier about and I mean Peter he might disagree with them , but what I think is how we view the Royals as we were all growing up .
7 Well , if , if I make some more coffee .
8 If I make some more coffee , who 's gon na have some ?
9 All we ask is that over the next year , you make four more selections from over 300 titles for children of all ages — each picked by our expert panel for its quality and educational value , and described for you in our free monthly magazine .
10 She made precious few concessions to the old orthodoxies .
11 She made several more journeys before he noticed her tiredness .
12 You made sure those words were learnt for the next day .
13 Oh , before we go any further , yes , sorry , no , you 're right Liam can you make sure that computer 's on please that one .
14 But before we lose the spirit of Christmas , will you make one more gift of kindness ?
15 Not for nothing had she made all those journeys with her employers — she now showed herself to have a familiarity with timetables quite out of the ordinary and was able to spot at once where a connection could be made .
16 Dinda and I had a cottage in Stratford last , we made sure that father was going to Plymouth to Debbie 's for the week , he said he adores it down there
17 And we made all these points clear to them , we also very much drew their drew their attention to making sure that any rules or advice they gave , did actually work out in an equal opportunity way .
18 We made another such excursion on to Mount Párnes , at its best season — it was still possible ( indeed it is still possible today , though more difficult ) to leave Athens and the world behind after a very few kilometres .
19 You can imagine what an outcry there 'd be from women if we made some such generalisation about them , but we men are supposed to take this shit . ’
20 We make all these inferences on the basis of the deictic words , come , go and here ( not to mention now ) , together with reasonings about the nature of our physical world ( see Chapter 2 ) .
21 Any statement can be held true come what may , if we make drastic enough adjustments elsewhere in the system .
22 Somebody must be locked away somewhere totting up figures , or how would they make all that money ?
23 Before Boswell and Johnson began this ascent , which in parts feels almost vertical , they made one more stop — at the hamlet of Auchnasheal or Auknasheals , ‘ consisting of many huts ’ , wrote Johnson , ‘ perhaps twenty , built all of dry stone , that is , stones piled up without mortar ’ .
24 They use slightly wide shots ; they make much more use of the medium-range shots showing the Members ( or the absence of Members ) around the person speaking ; there are more individual reaction shots ; and they vary the camera angles in ways that minimise the monotony that results from keeping the camera on one member for an extended period .
25 They thought well kids just make a fuss anyway and they have n't got any proper routes so what 're they making all that fuss about y'know , shut up , um and er that kind of things was going on .
26 ‘ Were they making all this noise while I was studying ? ’ he thought .
27 I hope André does n't see this as a welcome mat for him to make any more advances .
28 Oh I thought it was me making all that noise .
29 He made two more soundings further along the bank and got the same result for both .
30 During 1785 he made six more balloon flights , notably taking William Windham , MP [ q.v. ] , as a passenger on 5 May , but then gave up ballooning for twenty-five years .
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