Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to make a [noun sg] " 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 | That 's obviously going to make a difference to you , ’ he commented : ‘ Well , it 's marvellous to have a lot of support ’ . |
3 | A hole in the mattress yielded enough stuffing to make a pillow , and Sarah lined the bottom of the box with it . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | It was bad enough having to make a detour around Page Street without . |
6 | And Doctor Morris — a remarkable quirk in his otherwise orderly character , I may say — has always stubbornly refused to make a will . |
7 | Lancashire , however , rarely threatened to make a game of it . |
8 | He shook his head , but gamely decided to make a stab at it . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ I just want to make a couple of movies a year . ’ |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Yes , but I just want to make a point here . |
14 | I would just like to make a couple of general points though regarding Selby District as a location . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | I 'd just like to make a point and its confirming what the young lady said down there about deregulation and although you , you |
17 | I 'd just like to make a point about Robert House , and Roseberry . |
18 | The complainant no longer needed to make a distinction between petty and serious crime ; all criminal charges were now brought before the same official . |
19 | ‘ I 'm just going to make a phone call , all right ? ’ |
20 | I was just going to make a cup of tea , and now the lecky 's gone . ’ |
21 | ‘ I 've just got to make a phone call . ’ |
22 | He was desperately trying to make a connection . |
23 | I 'm just trying to make a banana cake . |
24 | ‘ 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 ) . |
25 | If they ask me Sir , they 're just trying to make a monkey out of you . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | just trying to make a point . ’ |
28 | to cover a wee bit of ground here , I 'm just trying to make a point to you about how many closes you 're probably not aware for the minute , these are only a few of them , right , similar situation close , right , lost sale close , right the did n't I cover that close |
29 | In other words , in the time it takes for one murder on the crime clock , six workers have died ‘ just trying to make a living ’ ! ’ |
30 | Samuel Beeton had already begun to make a name for himself as a publisher and editor . |