Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I jumped in and frothed about a bit , then went back inside and made some coffee . |
2 | I went back to it carefully , stroking it gently and making shushing noises with my mouth . |
3 | Even now , as she smiled at her son 's antics — he was laughing and clapping his little hands together and making mischievous faces at Cissie , who adored him — memories of Tyler besieged her heart . |
4 | Jenna stood perfectly still and felt unable to look away or make any sort of move . |
5 | With an effort she looked away and made some remark to one of the schoolteachers and became consciously absorbed in the conversation which followed . |
6 | And because I took the trouble to save this life of yours I insist on seeing you recover properly and make full use of it . |
7 | The wartime commentator 's jingoistic jangle was this time replaced by a solemn voice , and we were confronted with pictures of moving skeletons , some of them smiling weakly and making slow gestures . |
8 | Besides , people were too drained by the heat to move about quickly or to make much noise . |
9 | Whereas in a spoken interaction the speaker has the advantage of being able to monitor his listener 's minute-by-minute reaction to what he says , he also suffers from the disadvantage of exposing his own feelings ( 'leaking' ; Ekman & Friesen , 1969 ) and of having to speak clearly and concisely and make immediate response to whichever way his interlocutor reacts . |
10 | ‘ If the NIE shares offer a good premium , and I expect that they will , then people should be able to buy them , sell them quickly and make some money to buy into BT3 if they want . ’ |
11 | Quite the opposite ; I think of you more than ever and make mental clutches at you like a frightened baby . |
12 | Come forth and make this assay . ’ |
13 | They will ride the surf or the bows of a vessel , constantly passing back and forth and making boisterous leaps . |
14 | Diana drafted her reply carefully and made several attempts at matching the frosty tone which Philip had used in his . |
15 | Please read it carefully and make any amendments necessary . |
16 | ‘ However , because their access to scarce funds is more open than other disciplines , this places an extra responsibility on HSE managers to allocate their budgets wisely and to make this cash really work for them . ’ |
17 | Ulrich Steinhilper 's trilogy , Spitfire on my Tail , Ten Minutes to Buffalo and Full Circle have been reviewed in these pages before now and make stunning reading of the life and times of a Luftwaffe fighter pilot through his experiences as a prisoner of war . |
18 | He was on an hour now and making good progress . |
19 | Get to a situation where you 've had a caravan before and to make any money to pay , you 've then got to buy another caravan to subsidise that one and you seem to be it 's sort of |
20 | ‘ They laid cardboard sheets meticulously and made small piles of combustible material to start the fire . |
21 | Tom Kalinske , president of Sega US , adds : ‘ All we are really doing is interpreting what one sees in the world today and making some form of game play out of it . |
22 | We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date . |
23 | But if you only listen well and make little contribution yourself , you risk suppressing your own needs and leaving the other party feeling cheated and exposed at the end of the conversation . |
24 | The village blacksmith was reestablished three years ago and makes hand-forged articles to the customer 's requirements . |
25 | Looking down at the long fair hair flowing over her shoulders , at the skimpy dress , the unlived-in face , he felt immeasurably old for not wanting to sweep her off there and then and make passionate love to her . |
26 | When a set of bindings of anaphors to possible referents is deemed implausible , the plausibility checker should be able to say , where appropriate , which binding ( or subset of the bindings ) is causing the problem , and the rest of the system should react to this information intelligently and make relevant changes . |
27 | Now — are we going to get on with planning this party , or are you just going to sit there and make stupid remarks ? ’ |
28 | If you want his exact words , he said ‘ Get up there and make bloody nuisances of yourselves until I tell you to come down ’ . ’ |
29 | If the customer feels that her request or complaint has been dealt with pleasantly and fairly , she is likely to come back again and make further purchases . |
30 | Very difficult indeed er hearing the Maxwell people talking earlier I think er again and made that point very clear . |