Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She only needs to make a token 1500 metres or 3,000 metres appearance in the main trials meeting , in Birmingham on June 27 and 28 , to claim her Olympic team place alongside world champion Liz McColgan . |
| 2 | Virgin had long struggled to make an inroad into the American market . |
| 3 | That 's obviously going to make a difference to you , ’ he commented : ‘ Well , it 's marvellous to have a lot of support ’ . |
| 4 | A hole in the mattress yielded enough stuffing to make a pillow , and Sarah lined the bottom of the box with it . |
| 5 | One eccentric old git ( who ‘ changed his appearance ’ every five or six years , handily enough ) , a string of daft ‘ assistants ’ , enough latex to make a condom for Concorde and the sort of ripping good-vs-evil yarnery that encourages grown adults to hold Dr Who conventions to this day . |
| 6 | It was bad enough having to make a detour around Page Street without . |
| 7 | And Doctor Morris — a remarkable quirk in his otherwise orderly character , I may say — has always stubbornly refused to make a will . |
| 8 | Crosby has 18 players in his squad all fighting to make a Wembley impression in the remaining four league games . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , ’ sniffed Mel , ‘ these guys are only trying to make a bob or two … and from what I gather they usually rake in a fair bit . ’ |
| 10 | Lancashire , however , rarely threatened to make a game of it . |
| 11 | He shook his head , but gamely decided to make a stab at it . |
| 12 | So I have a list here now it is n't in the notes so you might just want to make a note of this . |
| 13 | Their auditors came across alleged irregularities at a time when the Division Two outfit is already expected to make a loss of £120,000 for the season . |
| 14 | ‘ I just want to make a couple of movies a year . ’ |
| 15 | and is that , I always feel threatened or paranoid I just want to make a point on on paragraph seven the rule in which to review the is that my understanding that review will be about the role and of the rule in which the . |
| 16 | Yes , but I just want to make a point here . |
| 17 | I would just like to make a couple of general points though regarding Selby District as a location . |
| 18 | Very briefly I would just like to make a statement that er clearly as you 'll see from our representations er er on the on the plan submission , the City Council does support the County Council 's er approach to employment land provision both for the City of York and for Greater York . |
| 19 | I 'd just like to make a point and its confirming what the young lady said down there about deregulation and although you , you |
| 20 | I 'd just like to make a point about Robert House , and Roseberry . |
| 21 | The complainant no longer needed to make a distinction between petty and serious crime ; all criminal charges were now brought before the same official . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm just going to make a phone call , all right ? ’ |
| 23 | I was just going to make a cup of tea , and now the lecky 's gone . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 've just got to make a phone call . ’ |
| 25 | He was desperately trying to make a connection . |
| 26 | I 'm just trying to make a banana cake . |
| 27 | ‘ It is an absolute red herring and they are just trying to make a mountain out of a molehill ’ — NEIL GRAY ( All Black manager in Australia ) after his team had been accused of excessively tough tactics in beating New South Wales ( 41–9 ) . |
| 28 | If they ask me Sir , they 're just trying to make a monkey out of you . |
| 29 | I know now he was just trying to make a sale and did n't have my size in stock , but since he was wearing a fleecy top and tracksuit trousers I believed him , and bought these huge leather edifices that a young married couple could quite comfortably live in and bring up a family . |
| 30 | just trying to make a point . ’ |