Example sentences of "[adv prt] and make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While developers move in and make a killing . |
| 2 | They have nothing better to do than go down and make a nuisance of themselves to people who are peacefully going about their own affairs . |
| 3 | First sit down and make a list of your plus and minus points . |
| 4 | I mean basically you say the bloke says we 're going to sit down and make a decision tonight |
| 5 | So please let's find somewhere we can sit down and make a plan . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps he should abandon thoughts of privateering ; perhaps he should settle down and make a home . |
| 7 | To this end it can be quite a good idea to sit down and make a list of all the social activities you would like to enjoy if you were free to do so -such as visiting and entertaining friends , going to the theatre , cinema , concerts , evening classes , study groups , church activities and special interest clubs , as well as the occasional holiday . |
| 8 | The goal is made concrete by writing it down and making a commitment to it . |
| 9 | She settles back down and makes a gesture for Bill to lie on her lap again . |
| 10 | If parents have managed to instil in their child a sense of his own worth as an individual , then , whatever knocks that child may encounter as an adult , he will have the inner confidence which will enable him to pull through and make a success of his life — success in this context having nothing to do with money but with achieving one 's aims as an individual , whatever they may be . |
| 11 | As long as we feel we can sell them on and make a profit for the NECCR then we will be happy . |
| 12 | Twenty minutes into the game , he jolted a disc in his back and went off to see his replacement , Rob Wainwright , come on and make a name for himself . |
| 13 | The second is : every command you give must be broken only by you , by which I mean do not tell your dog to sit then go off and make a cup of tea and forget all about him . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'd better go off and make a search . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd picked Nolan up and made a fool of him . |
| 16 | You may have locked someone up and made a mistake . |
| 17 | One morning I woke up and made a plan . |
| 18 | She got up and made a cup of tea , sitting by her bed to drink it , her face pale and set . |
| 19 | Inside , he ‘ used to make all the mince pies for Christmas ’ , peel the potatoes for Sunday lunch , and every morning make breakfast : ‘ you never had to get up and make a cup of tea of a morning , he 'd get up . |
| 20 | Erm , but an awful lot of people who would go up and make a fuss may not get this , the same level of services erm , somebody who went up there and was nice . |
| 21 | Wilkie — a genius — effortless Firsts — but perhaps still ready to give up and make a career in the theatre . |
| 22 | In desperation I said to Noel Buttigieg-Scicluna , Secretary of the Maltese Nationalist Party , ‘ Noel , please go up and make a speech until we can find Eddie . ’ |
| 23 | If it was hydrogen nitrate the nitric acid the zinc would push the hydrogen out and make a zinc nitrate . |
| 24 | She decided to get right on with her article and also to seek Ana out and make a friend of her . |
| 25 | Then I go out and make a space . |
| 26 | And in a radio programme , you have exactly the same thing , it 's the first fifteen or twenty seconds which makes you decide ‘ Am I going to listen to this , or am I going to switch this off , and go out and make a cup of tea or take the dog for a walk ? ’ |
| 27 | Then she could jump out and make a run for it . |
| 28 | ‘ Y'know , we could go out and make a record full of metal songs or Hammond organ covers and we 'd probably be taken more seriously , ’ spits Dunphy . |
| 29 | ‘ Y'know , we could go out and make a record full of metal songs or Hammond organ covers and we 'd probably be taken more seriously , ’ spits Dunphy . |
| 30 | Convinced of his own plainness , Graham is here engaged in taking Jenny out and making a mess of kissing her . |