Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's harder than you may think to make a copy of your dick . |
| 2 | We may want to make a dash straight back to Olbia so that we can catch the first ferry across in the morning . ’ |
| 3 | She must 've made a mistake — Marie said she 'd write to me . |
| 4 | Miss Harker was n't just baffled , she was incensed that this chit of a girl should dare to make a fool of her in front of the whole class , but she managed to smother up her rage in tones of exasperated concern . |
| 5 | I should like to make a couple of points about the Bill 's two substantive provisions before turning to its hidden agenda . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ said Dyson , chewing hard , ‘ 1 must admit that I should like to make a name for myself , just for its own sake . ’ |
| 7 | Therefore , I should like to make a suggestion , which I know will be regarded as special pleading . |
| 8 | With permission , Mr. Speaker , I should like to make a statement on public expenditure in Scotland . |
| 9 | With permission , Mr. Speaker , I should like to make a statement on the European Council in Maastricht which I attended with my right hon. Friends the Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 10 | With permission , Mr. Speaker , I should like to make a statement about the Government 's legislative intentions , following the consultation on the Green Paper ’ Industrial Relations in the 1990s ’ , which was published in July last year . |
| 11 | With permission , Mr. Speaker , I should like to make a statement about President Yeltsin 's visit to London on 30 January and about the special meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on 31 January . |
| 12 | ‘ Accepting — if I am to consent , I should like to make a condition or two — ‘ |
| 13 | A solicitor for the Robinson family said that the staff at the hospital should have made a call to the Southern General . |
| 14 | Jacques Tati should have made a film here . |
| 15 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 16 | I should have made a point of following up his sickness , thought Cadfael , touched , but I thought he , of all people , would make good sure he got all the treatment he needed . |
| 17 | It is astonishing that he should have made a riposte about housing benefit being available to the poor for housing costs and to have given the impression that he was in favour of housing benefit . |
| 18 | I should have made a list . |
| 19 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 20 | Threat to insurers AS THE £1.1bn takeover bid by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurer , gets underway for the Pearl Group , a new survey suggests that perhaps the Australians should have made a bid for a building society . |
| 21 | It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army . |
| 22 | I knew that I should have to make a decision . |
| 23 | I could n't help thinking that he must have made a mistake . |
| 24 | ‘ You must have made a mistake . |
| 25 | He , too , checked with the police and rang back to confirm that Derek had not been arrested and that he felt she must have made a mistake . |
| 26 | She waited a moment for the signal to appear somewhere on the grid , then leaned forward to key the search sequence again , thinking she must have made a mistake . |
| 27 | Edward , shying away from disagreeable exposures , supposed that mother must have made a mistake . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sorry , sir , I must have made a mistake . ’ |
| 29 | Said he must have made a mistake and it was the Cynthia T. The Cynthia had one of the new masters whom I did n't know , so I could n't do anything . |
| 30 | She must have made a mistake herself . |