Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] make [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I realise , with growing apprehension , that my fertile years will soon be over and that the time has come to make another choice . |
| 2 | The 29-year-old prop , Scotland 's longest serving captain , has decided to make this summer 's tour to Australia his swansong . |
| 3 | ( Alternative ending : Finally , I must pay tribute to the bridesmaids Sharon , Natalie , Margaret and Sue whose invaluable support has helped to make this day so successful . ) |
| 4 | ‘ Miss Broome has promised to make some sausage rolls . ’ |
| 5 | The school has refused to make any comment on the appointment of the new headmistress until she takes up her duties in August . |
| 6 | Andrew has learned to make this outcome more likely by escalating the tantrums into very violent and therefore frightening episodes . |
| 7 | I 've followed the events of of this erm unhappy but hardy perennial some time now erm I 've found it unusual because there was no Liberal volte face until now and er quite a lot of things happened where the Liberals changed their mind and I naturally started to wonder what has happened to make this change of mind come about and all I 'll say is I hope that it does n't have much to do with events in other counties or with any by-election . |
| 8 | Now let me cut through all that science , that er , Councillor Parker has has tried to make this issue . |
| 9 | A teenager who kidnapped his former girlfriend and her stepfather at gunpoint last year has admitted making more threats . |
| 10 | The paltry $7 million judgment is growing by $2,000 a day because De Lorean has failed to make several payments on time . |
| 11 | but he 's still got to come up , he 's got to make this thing , I mean it 's gon na be enormous with football 's . |
| 12 | And I would suggest to you , it 's because it 's complicated , and forgive me if I have n't made it more simple , but that 's one reason incidentally , why in my document , I kept commissioning , the business of doing , and making the kind of hard choices that your committee 's had to make this morning , because resources will always be limited , separate from discussing everything that people would like to do , because they do n't always run together . |