Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Our profits are disappointingly small in relation to , er er , the , er first half of last year er then , we had buoyant conditions and we made more money than we ever had before . |
| 32 | They disliked having so young a couple in the vicarage and they made that plain . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Gloucester never got themselves into gear and they made hard work of what should have been a straightforward game … in the second half they hammered away at Scottish … all but lived on their line but failed to get over it … |
| 37 | AWARD-winning Belfast agency , A.V. Browne turned in a significant increase in sales , despite curtailment of advertising budgets last year , and they made another milestone in another direction . |
| 38 | A green salad can be enhanced by primrose and violet heads , and they make appealing decorations for a cake . |
| 39 | A green salad can be enhanced by primrose and violet heads , and they make appealing decorations for a cake . |
| 40 | The results are published this month ( page 20 ) and they make fascinating reading . |
| 41 | He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’ |
| 42 | I never thought er Mrs that I 'd be seeing , I 'd like to see the excreta first but er could it be , could it be a dormouse because they enjoy the insects and berries and they make similar type holes . |
| 43 | Their models are their own or each others ' motets and chansons and the chansons of such Parisian colleagues as Claudin de Sermisy , and they make fuller use of the whole polyphonic complex of the model than their predecessors had done : how flexibly may be seen by comparing the opening of the Kyrie of Clemens 's already mentioned Mass ‘ Misericorde ’ : with that of his chanson ‘ Misericorde au martir amoureulx ’ : Bars 3–5 of the Kyrie are not the extraneous interpolation they seem to be ; they come from bars 18–20 of the chanson : |
| 44 | Well here are the answers and they make shameful reading for Premier John Major . |
| 45 | Long-firmers are experienced manipulators , and they make entertaining company for both prisoners and staff . |
| 46 | And they make grim reading every time . |
| 47 | He leava his Mamma and he come to Amerigo , and he make big noise in New York , Chicago , Detroit . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | His adoption of classical atomism was , consequently , not a wholesale one , and he made various changes in its basic principles . |
| 50 | The politician who promised ’ peace in our time ’ was an enthusiastic fly fisherman , and he made frequent angling trips to Gloucestershire . |
| 51 | His work was always informed by a strong historical sense , and he made distinguished contributions to the history of both logic and philosophy . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Dr Joe Hendron said the parties should return to the talks table without delay — and he made this point to Stormont Minister Sir John Wheeler yesterday . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | He met frequently with the Congressional leaders of both parties ; and he made considerable use of the telephone in seeking the votes of rank-and-file members while also inviting them to the White House in groups . |
| 57 | He stands alone — as Kenneth Clarke or David Ennals will confirm — and he makes few friends . |
| 58 | Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | And it made better grass . |