Example sentences of "[noun sg] they make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When they reached the Ferry Beach at New Passage they made all speed to the hospital and to the ‘ dead house ’ , which held seven coffins .
2 They had to take many economic decisions in the course of each annual cycle , and according to their status and wealth they made different decisions from one another in various places and over the year .
3 Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators .
4 On one memorable day they made three captures , with Mike rushing exhausted around the forest trying to keep up .
5 Discussing the proposals of Holland and Benn designed to rectify the short-fall in investment in the British economy they make this point :
6 And then for half an hour they make small talk .
7 It is not even clear whether they travelled in a Japanese or a Chinese ship : but either way they made secret contacts with Thakin friends who agreed to accompany them back to Japan .
8 In time they made new villages , cleared more land for crops and traded with the older inhabitants .
9 The attitude of the New England colonies was probably well suited to the commercial and industrial society that was emerging in the seventeenth century , but at the time they made less impression on the world than the others .
10 Thus , it is not uncommon to find Comte , Durkheim , Marx , and Weber all described as positivists , even though from many points of view they make strange bedfellows .
11 Mrs X- — ( a teacher ) used to like Indian food and there were quite a few Indian girls in the class , so in two or three lessons in the cookery class they made Indian food .
12 In the region they make electrical goods , including computers in Manchester , canned , bottled and processed foods such as biscuits , cat food and sauces , including Heinz baked beans in Wigan ; all manner of packaging and printing ; shoes , cigarettes and furniture .
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