Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] make [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the section below I make some observations on male-orientation in functionalist theory . |
| 2 | But I always wanted to travel , and so I made several voyages as a ship 's doctor . |
| 3 | All night long she made mental notes of all the transactions being made , the profits , the losses , meetings , separations , the wanting , having , getting , seeing , the excess , the moderation , the negotiations ; all those men trying to work out what they wanted , what they could afford , what they needed . |
| 4 | So we made these tests more complex in order to increase their relevance , but in so doing we produced tests which were so sophisticated as not to be widely available due to cost and personnel requirements , and which began to show some of the problems found when we measured performance ‘ on-site ’ . |
| 5 | And so they made two provisions which make the situation rather different . |
| 6 | So they made different decisions about the best places for their industries . |
| 7 | None the less it makes two features of long-term insurance policies very clear . |
| 8 | Finally she made some grunts and said : ‘ Globol obol ookle ogle globol gloogle gloo . ’ ) |
| 9 | Even if you are mouse phobe you should at least give it a try because you might be surprised at how easy it makes common operations . |
| 10 | Thereafter he made regular journeys in Greece and Turkey , some of which formed the subject of two of his major travel books , Researches in the Highlands of Turkey ( 2 vols. , 1869 ) and Turkish Armenia and Eastern Asia Minor ( 1881 ) . |
| 11 | Earlier I made delicate incisions |
| 12 | There I made many friends . |
| 13 | I 've never believed it , but sometimes she makes such leaps of comprehension … |
| 14 | We made some changes and they worked and then we made some changes that did not work . |
| 15 | We suppose that 's a rule in our minds and that explains our judgments about for example and proform substitution and so on that 's so we define the notion of a constituent plus label it with brackets , and then we make certain predictions about operations that can or ca n't be performed on . |
| 16 | Our work proceeds by trying to model this ocean atmosphere system and initially we made these models to develop an understanding but it turned out that the models worked pretty well to make predictions . |
| 17 | ( Thus Auer complains of Gumperz that " sometimes he makes strong claims about the effect of a given type or instance of code switching on the subsequent development of the sequence , which are based on informants ' reports , but fails to reproduce this subsequent passage " ( Auer 1984b : 106 , fn. 10 ) . ) |
| 18 | Then he made 38 runs in good time as Northern cashed in against the champions ' depleted bowling resources . |
| 19 | And then he made all sorts of tactless remarks about the state of the body . |
| 20 | Because in that paper there is a passage where Trivers says , if my theory is right , and basically it 's this Trivers Willard thing he was talking about , that parents and offspring will be in conflict about parental investment , he says , if my theory is right and if parents discriminate investment on the basis of offspring success , then he makes two predictions . |
| 21 | From there he made frequent visits to Jefferies ' Coate Farm and Reservoir , to well-off Townsend cousins in Clifton , and to the neighbouring Downs . |
| 22 | Either we make some sacrifices … or we gradually choke in our own dirt . ’ |
| 23 | Now and again we made such mistakes . |
| 24 | Otherwise he made few changes in personnel . |
| 25 | Occasionally she made rolled-up pancakes , and stuffed omelettes , and steak pies with lovely gravy:I have in my mind 's eye a picture of her , sitting in a corner with some child on her lap , and the usual dreamy expression on her face . |
| 26 | ‘ He says they should save old newspapers because , I quote , ‘ folded up tight they make good logs for the fire and , in extremis ’ — that 's what he says , the fucker , in extremis — ‘ they make better insulation than wool . ’ ‘ |