Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] 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 | Okay and you made six sets of |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So you , off you go and you make your fifty calls , and you make four contacts . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We put up posters , we persuaded work colleagues to vote Labour and we made financial contributions . |
| 13 | And we made two cars one big and one small . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A green salad can be enhanced by primrose and violet heads , and they make appealing decorations for a cake . |
| 18 | A green salad can be enhanced by primrose and violet heads , and they make appealing decorations for a cake . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His adoption of classical atomism was , consequently , not a wholesale one , and he made various changes in its basic principles . |
| 21 | His work was always informed by a strong historical sense , and he made distinguished contributions to the history of both logic and philosophy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 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 | He stands alone — as Kenneth Clarke or David Ennals will confirm — and he makes few friends . |
| 26 | Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff . |
| 30 | On that , I think it is generally known , that we , that Telford was n't anywhere near the top of the list , and it had been taken purely on the question of the er , needs of the various areas , it 's unlikely that Telford would have succeeded , even with its reduced geographical area , but I made discrete enquiries and was told that the factor which tipped er , the Commission in favour of Telford , and this has an important bearing on what we 're going to discuss later , was the fact that Telford has been very good in taking up schemes and providing their section , and not just the Wreakin District Council , other area , other bodies in Telford , of getting good innovative schemes off the ground and providing the cash , they did n't , as some areas did , get the status , and then hardly do anything about it . |