Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Harbinger went ahead to make arrangements for the King and his Court to be quartered in the Cathedral Close . |
| 2 | At Cedars Mrs Singh had instantly made friends with a young Asian woman ( wearing trousers and a shirt ) with a little girl who was evidently a year older than Balbinder . |
| 3 | Lucy had just made tea and was boiling the kettle again for another cup ; by now supplies of milk and sugar were exhausted and tea had to be drunk without either . |
| 4 | The Carsons had quickly made friends . |
| 5 | Maud went away to make supper , refusing offers of help , and Roland called the Putney flat where there was no reply . |
| 6 | Carolyn and Alan did not make love again until they were married . |
| 7 | Contrary to tradition , Constantine did not make Christianity the official state religion of Rome . |
| 8 | But it may well be that , like Whistler , Mr Rocke did not make notes but simply took a steady look and remembered . |
| 9 | Tallis had not made Moondream at that time — the mask to allow her to see the woman in the land — but she intuitively knew who she had seen , how she had reached through her vision to this very day , perhaps , in her own future . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal held that Coopers had not made mistakes of this type . |
| 11 | As the affair between Norman and Henrietta progressed and showed no sign of being short-lived , Minton began increasingly to make scenes and when drunk would physically attack Norman . |
| 12 | The explanation for the delayed start is that the Rugby Union and the BBC agreed not to make Rugby Special overlap with Sunday Grandstand . |
| 13 | And Adam did n't make conversation — just tended his garden and bees . |
| 14 | Returning to the jazz clubs was one option , but Rune had already made attempts to cover that by enlisting the aid of several barmen as well as his friends at Ib 's Bar . |
| 15 | In fact when she left home Lady Althorp had already made arrangements for Charles and Diana to live with her in London . |
| 16 | The Office of Management and Budget defined emergency spending as " a necessary expenditure that is sudden , urgent and unforeseen , and is not permanent " ; to date , Bush had only made emergency declarations to aid Kurdish refugees in Iraq , to pay benefits for Gulf war veterans , and to bail out the savings and loan industry [ see p. 38090 ] . |
| 17 | It was clear at breakfast , however , that God had not made Mr Cottle sate . |
| 18 | Peter had already made contact with the Montenegrins early in the century . |
| 19 | Charley did not make love to her , and he ought . |
| 20 | The RICS acted early to make CPD a requirement for new members elected after 1981 . |
| 21 | It was as if to prove that it was n't England that had changed that Losey went on to make Accident ( 1967 ) , a powerful triangle drama involving two very different Oxford academics and their exotic pupil , financed from English sources . |
| 22 | The company claimed that Fowler , a former senior employee and eight other former employees and a new company set up by Fowler had wrongfully made use of confidential information which had been acquired during employment . |
| 23 | But there was more to it than that : Wycliffe had not made contact , he had not found the tender spot which , when probed , yields a reflex rather than a reasoned response . |
| 24 | I would have suspected nothing if the counterfeit Taplow had not made reference to Purgatory . |
| 25 | Evidently Francis had never made advances to his cousin . |
| 26 | Henry after all wished to collaborate in the work of the Church ; Rufus wished only to make money from it . |
| 27 | Though Hobbes had already made enemies of John Wallis and Seth Ward , two of its founder members , over his claim to have solved the geometrical problem of squaring the circle , it was at least partly due to his association in the popular mind with a materialistic atheism that he never became a Fellow . |
| 28 | It was close in the end but it might have been even tighter if Colbert had n't made way for them on the last stage . |
| 29 | Stirling had also made arrangements for Paddy Mayne to take his squadron to the Lebanon for ski training , as soon as their operational commitments were ended . |
| 30 | Sir Henry Bessemer discovered how to make steel faster and cheaper . |