Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] make [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 My son spent a year at Liphook Junior School , during which time my husband and I made frequent visits to discuss our concerns regarding this apparent lack of progress .
2 I felt she desperately needed my help , and I made frequent visits and tried innumerable remedies I consulted my colleague Siegfried on the problem and he suggested a diet of charcoal biscuits .
3 E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns .
4 Then dad and I made some cakes and I put notices about the sale through the neighbours ' doors in Swadlincote in Derbyshire , where we live .
5 I was present at the public meeting at Hutchison Crossway on 26 Nov. and I made some comments , warmly welcoming the proposals and asking about the upgrading of a parallel cycle route .
6 I thought she meant her sons had died in the war and I made sympathetic noises .
7 All the pitches were lined with trees under which spectators could sit and which made splendid spots for picnics when no game was going on .
8 Okay and you made six sets of
9 And you make ridiculous statements — as in your Born to beg article which asserts that the use of children by heroin addicts to support their habit is more ethical than aid agencies ' publishing children 's photos to help their fundraising .
10 So you , off you go and you make your fifty calls , and you make four contacts .
11 He asked her to come back as suited her to sign her statement , and she made all kinds of difficulties about when this would be possible .
12 The most important of these was the Save the Children Fund ( SCF ) ; Nina Boyle went to the USSR in 1921 to work in an SCF famine-relief programme , she wrote articles for SCF publications , and she made frequent speeches as a representative of the organization .
13 We put up posters , we persuaded work colleagues to vote Labour and we made financial contributions .
14 And we made two cars one big and one small .
15 Well I , I , as I say , I did follow it up and in fact , I even went to a committee where I sat and spoke to the er the police face to face and they made all sorts of promises but nothing materialized .
16 peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border .
17 I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets .
18 A green salad can be enhanced by primrose and violet heads , and they make appealing decorations for a cake .
19 A green salad can be enhanced by primrose and violet heads , and they make appealing decorations for a cake .
20 Lord Berner 's Triumph of Neptune was another work he conducted quite frequently over a long period , and he made two recordings of the ballet suite .
21 His adoption of classical atomism was , consequently , not a wholesale one , and he made various changes in its basic principles .
22 His work was always informed by a strong historical sense , and he made distinguished contributions to the history of both logic and philosophy .
23 He waited until he had collected a large number of observations of the fact that he was fed at 9 a.m. , and he made these observations under a wide variety of circumstances , on Wednesdays and Thursdays , on warm days and cold days , on rainy days and dry days .
24 One American daguerreotypes , a Baptist minister called Levi Hill , claimed in 1850 to have found a combination of chemistry which would record colour as well as tone , and he made several announcements promising to reveal the technique .
25 One American daguerreotypes , a Baptist minister called Levi Hill , claimed in 1850 to have found a combination of chemistry which would record colour as well as tone , and he made several announcements promising to reveal the technique .
26 He stands alone — as Kenneth Clarke or David Ennals will confirm — and he makes few friends .
27 Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me .
28 The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation .
29 and in empirical sorry and in in empirical work we tend to use these nonlinear demand functions simply because they have this nice property that they have constant elasticity , and it makes subsequent calculations considerably easier , and you may think in actual fact that linear demand curves are quite restrictive .
30 It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff .
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