Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] make [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea . |
| 2 | At the same time , others need to offer the caring , understanding support which helps to make such a life possible . |
| 3 | The first bite I take makes all the jam squirt out the side over my chin . |
| 4 | Example : The Giant 's Toothache In advance of the drama session I 've made several large sweet papers . |
| 5 | No wonder she had made such a fool of herself by fainting in the middle of Luke 's proposal . |
| 6 | As the lift doors opened and she stepped out into the corridor , it occurred to her that she must strike a very different figure from the wide-eyed girl who had made that first visit . |
| 7 | Now , you know , that is the sort of attitude we 've made this class thing . |
| 8 | They are intended to assist groups at local level who wish to make some contribution but do not have time to study the Lineaments and respond to all its questions . |
| 9 | Its reflection on the water surface of the river at Abingdon advanced towards me , in this case not exactly to my feet because I was up on the bridge , but whatever else I managed to achieve in the picture I had to make this plane of the river advance . |
| 10 | Painfully and in the open she had to make all the running . |
| 11 | I think at the time of the er , of the A G M , I said we were pleased by the prospects and in the current statement I say the outlook continues promising , but I do n't think at any point we 've made more of a forecast than that . |
| 12 | Anyway , for the moment we have to make that assumption . |
| 13 | Miller mentions some of the trees in the Dictionary : Abies balsamea , Balsam fir , first grown in this country in the Bishop of London 's garden at Fulham , but states , ‘ the only place they have made any figure is at Woburn ’ . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Unix International is being very secretive about an announcement it expects to make this week that it hopes will propel the industry further along the path of unity . |
| 15 | Yahweh ( Exodus 3:13–16 ) is the God actively present with his people — but the moment he chose to make this known as when they , as doomed slaves , needed to be redeemed . |
| 16 | In this case we need to make some assumptions in order to proceed . |
| 17 | Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design . |
| 18 | So far , the only person who has made that suggestion is the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 19 | The Report will be fully considered in a future issue of the Review but in respect of the drafting and presentation it has made some measured recommendations . |
| 20 | And what would Gemma Dallam — Gemma Gage — think to that , she wondered , if she knew the price he had made another woman pay to recover her brown satin ? |
| 21 | During my term as manager I have made few friends and my enemies stalk the boardroom in ever increasing numbers . |
| 22 | His words went straight to her heart , and she remembered the private wish she 'd made that day , that Nicolo would tell her he loved her . |
| 23 | She had almost lost interest in the man but felt obsessed with the woman who had made such an impression in such a short time . |
| 24 | Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves . |
| 25 | Thirty five today , there would be no better birthday present than the sort of start he has made each time he won here — a 66 in 1980 and a 68 in 1983 . |
| 26 | And what difference will it make to a government which has made more U-turns than a snake ? ’ |
| 27 | It was not a whistle that could have come from human lips , but a chilling scalpel shriek he had heard only once before in the Fifth Dominion , when , some two hundred years past , his then possessor , the Maestro Sartori , had conjured from the In Ovo a familiar which had made such a whistle . |
| 28 | She had barely recognized their cool , urbane general manager in the seedy , vengeful man who had made such wild accusations . |
| 29 | But he was undoubtedly the man who had made such a powerful impact on her in the Piazzale Roma . |
| 30 | It was odd to sit here , so far away , in sun and shouting , and see the small dark and light rounds of the face of the man who had made those images . |