Example sentences of "[vb -s] make a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter , we allays made a point of asking the culprit , whenever we wanted to use the bucket for anything from watering the flowers to doing the ironing , ‘ Is this water in here or urine ? ’ |
| 2 | Then Willis bowled Lloyd , four more wickets fell cheaply — Sobers made a duck in his only one-day international — and the final score was 181 . |
| 3 | The man has made a fool of himself , but the girl was almost equally stupid . |
| 4 | ‘ However , your vanity has made a fool of you . |
| 5 | It has made a lake of the Mediterranean , a stream of the Atlantic and a winter garden of Algeria ’ . |
| 6 | Fifthly , a member who is adjudged bankrupt or who has made a composition with his creditors ceases to be a member . |
| 7 | Stephen Czerkas is an amateur American paleontologist who has made a name for himself by reconstructing lifelike models of dinosaurs . |
| 8 | Swindon has made a name for itself attracting overseas investment into Britain , American , Japanese and German . |
| 9 | ‘ Darlington has made a name for itself with imaginative use of housing capital . |
| 10 | The group 's Snob subsidiary is steadily raising its sales per square foot and management has made a breakthrough at the previously troubled Peter Brown menswear acquisition , which has performed markedly better since June . |
| 11 | This means that the seller has made a return of 50 per cent on his initial investment of 200 in just five days while the buyer has lost 50 per cent of his initial investment . |
| 12 | The government has made a mess of its showpiece , the privatisation of the profitable Muslim Commercial Bank . |
| 13 | There is nothing which can be guaranteed to alienate the affections of a statistician more than the surveyor who goes for advice after he has made a mess of sampling and needs someone to get him out of the mess . |
| 14 | We learn that John has had an affair with a fashion model ( Sunny Griffin ) , who moves in with her dresses , wigs and dog , but decides to leave after she has made a mess of the kitchen by boiling the spaghetti over . |
| 15 | The Federal Assembly has made a mess of the country 's name , rejecting the Czecho-Slovakia with a hyphen and finally agreeing on the Czech and Slovak Federated Republic ( CFSR ) . |
| 16 | After meeting staff he has made a plea to agency chiefs to delay the transfer so that full consultations can take place . |
| 17 | Rob Collister , president of Britain 's mountain guides , has made a plea for guides to set the example to the climbing community of the virtues of adventure climbing over convenience climbing . |
| 18 | The charity to benefit this year is Leukaemia Research , and Lisburn 's own golden girl Mary Peters has made a plea for runners to help the valuable work of this group by obtaining sponsorship . |
| 19 | TOP rugby coach Mostyn Richards has made a plea for all clubs to back fully the Mid-Wales District representative team . |
| 20 | If the arrest is lawful but the accused believes it to be unlawful , he is guilty because he has made a mistake of law : Bentley ( 1850 ) 4 Cox CC 406 . |
| 21 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |
| 22 | Proving that a contravention has occurred , even if only on the balance of probabilities , will not be easy , nor will demonstrating that an alleged miscreant has made a profit as a result of his contravention . |
| 23 | But his widow has made a present of a portrait of , of the , of the prophet , which is now in the Meeting House in Sussex University , with a plaque erm commemorating the gift . |
| 24 | Scotland 's rugby coach is acknowledged worldwide as the master alchemist whose inspired blending of the human elements at his disposal has made a nonsense of the form book . |
| 25 | He is acknowledged worldwide now as the master alchemist whose inspired blending of the human elements at his disposal has made a nonsense of perceived national pool strengths . |
| 26 | I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ? |
| 27 | Virani has made a fortune from acting as middle-man , between the English property tycoon and the Asian shopkeeper . |
| 28 | The adult has made a change to the array — introduced garages irrelevant to the number of cars . |
| 29 | ( b ) The child The child is entitled to respondent status in : ( i ) applications under Parts IV and V of the Act ( proceedings which relate to care , supervision , contact , child assessment , emergency protection and recovery orders ) ; ( ii ) applications under Part III of the Act ( secure accommodation orders and approval to the emigration of children in care ) ; ( iii ) any application for a residence order under s8 in relation to a child in care ; ( iv ) any family proceedings in which the court has made a direction for investigation under s37(1) ( see Chapter 3 , 1(b) ) and has either made or is considering whether to make an interim care order . |
| 30 | The court has made a direction to the local authority that the guardian ad litem be allowed to have continuing involvement with a view to making an application in due course if thought appropriate . |