Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] make a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 2 | If we 're going to go in and make a positive impact in certain parts of the region , erm then both my staff and myself and our colleagues who are working in the arts in the region have got to pull even harder together to make sure that we can make the partnership between us bureaucrats and the artist really be as effective as possible for the broadest range of the community . |
| 3 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 4 | Then your Mam used to make p pastry and put these beastlings in and make a beastling custard . |
| 5 | Can you help out ? he 's paying in gold and you can melt it down and make a new battleaxe that will never go rusty . |
| 6 | Step down and make a delicate traverse left to move up into a recess and small ledge . |
| 7 | She had flattened the grass , burrowed down and made a cosy little nest for herself . |
| 8 | So far , man has described and named about 700,000 of them and there are certainly three or four times as many still unnamed , awaiting the attentions of anyone who has the time , patience and knowledge to sit down and make a systematic review of them . |
| 9 | Because it obliges you to sit down and make a careful observation of the chosen subject , you discover so much more than by just pointing a camera . |
| 10 | When a glass cutter wants to cut glass , he does not bother to cut right through but makes a shallow scratch on the surface after which the glass breaks easily along the line of the scratch . |
| 11 | After my mother died he decided to stay on and make a living hunting , so I 've grown up here with Annamese boys and girls of my own age . |
| 12 | George Albert Smith was later of course erm to come on and make a big name , a world name for himself as the inventor of the first colour process , a very simple , two-colour process , but it was invented by him in Brighton , and it was the first world colour process . |
| 13 | Er and rush off and make a new will as soon as you can as well as . |
| 14 | In some parts of the Company TOP is starting to take off and make a real difference . |
| 15 | has having enough opportunity to go off and make a second marriage , which I do n't deny them but they must accept their responsibilities . |
| 16 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 17 | Stella jumped up and made a clattering show of stacking the supper plates onto a tray . |
| 18 | Stand up and make a positive statement . |
| 19 | When they are successful a bell rings and a mechanical buddha lights up and makes a creaky obeisance . |
| 20 | Fred Crocombe put the flaps half down , and Wood flattened out and made a fine three-point landing , pulling up quickly and successfully avoiding several groups of boulders . |
| 21 | It had fallen too slowly to break but the wine had flowed out and made a dark stain like blood on the white candlewick . |
| 22 | So Oh I say , I 'll cut it out and make a wee hole and transport part of the wood work across the window . |
| 23 | It pushed the night back and made a warm , yellow circle to sit in . |
| 24 | ‘ When the first High Queen cheated the curse by creating the Enchantment of the Bloodline , ’ said Dierdriu , ‘ the sorceress is said to have turned back and made a curious prophecy . |
| 25 | Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase . |
| 26 | He handled his horses gently , and was never known to punish a horse , relying on gentle persuasion and perfect timing in winning his races , holding back and making a late challenge . |