Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's obviously going to make a difference to you , ’ he commented : ‘ Well , it 's marvellous to have a lot of support ’ . |
| 2 | A hole in the mattress yielded enough stuffing to make a pillow , and Sarah lined the bottom of the box with it . |
| 3 | It was bad enough having to make a detour around Page Street without . |
| 4 | Crosby has 18 players in his squad all fighting to make a Wembley impression in the remaining four league games . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm just going to make a phone call , all right ? ’ |
| 7 | I was just going to make a cup of tea , and now the lecky 's gone . ’ |
| 8 | He was desperately trying to make a connection . |
| 9 | I 'm just trying to make a banana cake . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 11 | If they ask me Sir , they 're just trying to make a monkey out of you . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | just trying to make a point . ’ |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 ’ ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Well , some people say he died in the town , always trying to make a broom that would last ; others say he just gave up and wasted away , others that he got somebody else to make the brooms and found somebody to provide better twigs , and got people to sell the brooms in other towns and cities , and hired more people to make more brooms , and built a broom-making factory , and made lots of money and had a splendid house made … |
| 17 | ‘ But Oliver , ’ I said , trying to make some sense of the story , and also trying to make a bit of a joke of it at the same time , ‘ Is n't it traditional to give flowers to a girl when you arrive rather than after you 've left ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ God , I 'm really going to make a resolution about no beer for lunch , ’ he said . |
| 19 | He says he 's really going to make a killing ! — It 's beautiful ! ’ |
| 20 | Brady blames a £200m ‘ black hole ’ for the crisis now threatening to make a mockery of the council 's housing plans . |
| 21 | LIFESPAN assumes that the parent of a user is the person to whom information is to be sent if the user is in some way deficient in the activities to be undertaken ; e.g. failing to make a DC assessment . |
| 22 | Now unle now unless there are any participants that want , really burning to make a comment , er I feel that we have settled , well we 've had enough discussion on little A , I 've got enough , well I 've got enough from you in terms of your views about size of settlement , and Mr Brighton has pointed me again in the direction of his submission about er the definition of an integrated and balanced community , I would like to know , er from Mr Davis whether he concurs with that sort of interpretation , and I have a feeling that we have also had an expression , generally , that at the moment one settlement is probably appropriate , if you have to have a new settlement . |
| 23 | I 've done it now , and I 'm damn well going to make a success of it , Mr Hunter . |
| 24 | This time she was not going to permit Fenna a re-run of the old plot ; this time she was indeed going to make a brand new story ; her own story . |
| 25 | The party ultimately having to make a payment will look for ways to postpone that event for as long as possible , and will be able to do so without risk if there is no interest provision . |
| 26 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 27 | We are certainly going to make a resolution . |
| 28 | So how we handle the foal is certainly going to make a difference between whether the mature horse will be friendly or not , and in my experience , horses that have not been well handled as foals are never as friendly , trusting , and confident as those who have . |
| 29 | She added : ‘ Frankly , I think she is an utter disaster from start to finish and was never going to make a member of the Royal Family . |
| 30 | ‘ I am never going to make a movie as good as A Streetcar Named Desire . |