Example sentences of "[vb infin] make a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are unable to come , but would like to make a donation instead it would be most welcome . |
| 2 | SHORT of selecting a dead student , the Nobel Prize Committee could hardly have made a choice more calculated to embarrass and enrage the Chinese leadership . |
| 3 | Jacques Tati should have made a film here . |
| 4 | A European director might have made a film explicitly depicting and condemning the chain-gang system and he almost certainly would have suggested that the system was a metaphor for life itself , but Hollywood had made a more accessible and universally popular film by showing an innocent man hounded by a combination of events and social forces of which the chain-gang was the most obviously dramatic . |
| 5 | Must have made a mint out of the wars . |
| 6 | Alternatively , where it is likely that the creditors will need to be paid before the debts can be collected , the purchaser may wish to make a retention out of part of the purchase price which it then uses for satisfying the creditors . |
| 7 | Lewis seems to have got the message , so I doubt if he 'll try to make a story out of it . ’ |
| 8 | You 'll have to make a will now then . |
| 9 | I say he 'll have to make a will now . |
| 10 | I ca n't I ca n't really think I 'll have to make a list out you know but er you know I got just think of anything that 's , you know as I say I 've got got some fo cat food will get some dry cat food yeah Oh I cou sta if I start thinking I 'll I 'll I 'll |
| 11 | Make er , we 'll have to make a list out . |
| 12 | You do n't have to make a commitment now : just complete and return the Application , and we 'll send you the book to see and try out before making up your mind . |
| 13 | Alright you do n't have to make an issue out of it |
| 14 | If you 're going to make any sort of impression on this superior person , you 'll have to make an impact soon instead of demonstrating little else but shyness . |
| 15 | The fact that the French system has enabled the National Front and Greens to gain local influence would seem to make a Commission even more inclined to reduce the influence of potential newcomers . |
| 16 | We may want to make a dash straight back to Olbia so that we can catch the first ferry across in the morning . ’ |
| 17 | They were too embarrassed or did n't want to make a mountain out of a molehill . |
| 18 | The fears that had driven him to race frantically out to the Lock seemed so ridiculous now that he could not help making a joke out of them , and himself . |
| 19 | How do you learn to make a waistcoat out of it ? . |