Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] to make a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I doubt whether they caught him because no one ever asked me to make a statement or come to court ; but then you never know , he may have pleaded guilty . |
| 2 | I telephoned the next day , and the producer , having chatted with me awhile and ascertained that I was not a nutter ( I think ) , asked me to make a programme . |
| 3 | Her mum came down the street steaming from the chip shop , and she rushed us inside and got me to make a pot of tea while she shared them all out between the three of us , and we all sat round their fire eating them . |
| 4 | She ripped a cushion cover into strips and used them to make a gag . |
| 5 | He knew how to break one rock with another rock so they were sharp and then used them to make a point on a stick . |
| 6 | ‘ When The Darling Buds Of May became a success a lot of people approached me to make a record , saying : ‘ Well , it does n't matter if you ca n't sing — let's just do SOMETHING . ’ |
| 7 | In any event , I have no recollection of ever having had any differences with her except on one occasion when she telephoned me to make a request with which I was unable to comply . |
| 8 | Dorothea allowed herself to make a pot of tea , in her dressing gown , and carry it back upstairs , to enjoy over the newspaper and any letters there might be , though she did not allow herself to return to bed . |
| 9 | The old lady was becoming more confused , and often failed to recognise Anne but she allowed her to make a meal for her . |
| 10 | He moved the most experienced soldiers in two squads of twenty-five men each , and deployed them to make a wedge within the stockade , their lines defending its walls , the point of the wedge facing the valley formed by the stream below the hot springs . |
| 11 | A number of staff pressed me to make a second , and longer visit in the future , and this I would certainly like to do . |
| 12 | The study by Arnoult ( 1953 ) , mentioned in the preceding section of this chapter , included a condition in which the subjects were tested not on a discriminative motor task but on a task which required them to make a judgement about whether two stimuli presented together were the same as or different from one another . |
| 13 | who needed them to make a womb |
| 14 | One witness said a security video at a takeaway restaurant which captured two men running down Pitteville Street in Cheltenham , and which was shown on Central South News , prompted her to make a statement to the police . |
| 15 | At twenty-two , he was already recognized within the ballet world as the most gifted dance creator of his generation , and George Balanchine commissioned him to make a work for New York City Ballet . |
| 16 | They asked him to make a speech entitled : ‘ What kind of paper and how we 're going to sell 1.5 million . ’ |
| 17 | The station which persuaded him to make a comeback says it ca n't believe its luck . |
| 18 | What right had they to make a panel discussion out of this ? |
| 19 | She tried to resist , but as she struggled against him , the ridiculously scanty nightdress threatened to fall off her shoulders altogether , and embarrassment at her own state of undress forced her to make a grab for the material . |
| 20 | Above all , in 1072 he had publicly defeated the archbishop of York , and obliged him to make a profession of obedience to Canterbury . |
| 21 | His only son had been killed in a car accident so Mum expected us to make a fuss of him . |
| 22 | When my mother met , we were met you know when we got married the solicitor had us in because he wanted us to make a will because see we did n't take the money that we got from mum . |