Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone wants to make a move on Morgan , the would-be predator will have to move before the Willis Faber meeting . |
| 2 | ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it . |
| 3 | Someone tried to make a golf course in the water meadows ; another tried to run it as a pub , and put close-fitting carpets over the flags . |
| 4 | It was a cool night and someone had made a bonfire on the sand . |
| 5 | I knew what I was going out to and I was only concerned that there might be some hitch or delay , that I might get there and find that someone had made a mistake and I was n't due out for another six months — such was my anxiety to be released . |
| 6 | In among the monochrome massacre , someone had made a mistake ; there were brightly coloured Doris Day and James Garner in Move Over Darling . |
| 7 | Someone had made a pronouncement on it already . |
| 8 | Maximilian laughed as if someone had made a joke . |
| 9 | ‘ Someone had to make a stand for the egg producers , ’ Mother Catherine said . |
| 10 | In 1966 , soon after the book appeared , my agent told me that someone wanted to make a film out of it . |
| 11 | Of the senators involved Bush said : " They ought not to panic and run like a covey of quail because somebody has made an allegation against a man whose word I trust , and who , as I understand it , has n't been fingered by what 's coming out of this process … |
| 12 | Somebody had made a speech . |
| 13 | The rules are quite simple — you match two or three blocks with the same design by moving them together , or by allowing one to fall to make a pairing . |
| 14 | 1982 ) ; to describe the Quileute demonstratives one needs to make a distinction between objects visible and not visible to the speaker ( Anderson & Keenan , in press ) ; and so on . |
| 15 | It may sound strange to be pleased to discover that one has made a mistake , but it is , in fact , one of the most exciting things for a social scientist to discover — one really feels that one has found out something that went beyond what one might have expected through ‘ common sense ’ reasoning ! |
| 16 | But the real wonder of pop biopics is that no one has made a movie about Jim Morrison before now ( The Doors opens on March 15 ) . |
| 17 | One can , for example , no longer say that , if one has made an observation of the velocity , then the velocity will be the same one period later . |
| 18 | In defence of the industries , however , one has to make an allowance for the social costs of policies ( such as maintaining an uneconomic rail service for a community or loss-making plants in areas of high unemployment ) and for decisions on pricing , investment , and employment which are shaped in part by the political calculations of the government of the day . |
| 19 | In circumstances like that no one wants to make a mistake and no one is going to take things casually . ’ |
| 20 | Problems arise when there is a mismatch between the models adopted by the teacher and the parent — when , for example , one wants to make a complaint while the other wants to give advice . |
| 21 | The Bishop of London stayed abroad for a while , and then discreetly returned and was found to be in office again , and so effectively that no one troubled to make an issue of it . |
| 22 | I 've got someone from the village coming in every day to check that no one tries making a nuisance of themselves . |
| 23 | He checked the bathroom and kitchen and only then stood up to look through the windows to be certain that no one had made a run for the trees . |
| 24 | If one had to make a guess , it is that within another ten years or so ‘ environment ’ will have become a somewhat passé term , rather as ‘ ecological ’ has , simply because of its insufficiency as a generic description ; a term which links the preservation of rural landscapes in Europe to the fate of millions in Bangladesh obviously has problems of definition . |
| 25 | and erm one 's made a nest in this bird box |
| 26 | Anybody want to make a contribution . |
| 27 | Anybody want to make a comment on the A C C digest . |
| 28 | Does anybody like to make a contribution on Appendix B Right , the point is that we 're accepting that we support it , and that the Association of County Councils and that 's the International Affairs Sub-Committee of the A C C be informed of the County Council 's support , of the options set out in Appendix B. Is that agreed ? |
| 29 | The recommendation is simply that it be noted and I wondered if anybody wanted to make a contribution , or ask any questions , put anything forward , on Appendix A. Councillor |
| 30 | I guess everybody has to make a living the best way he knows but Zimmerman 's way left a taste in my mouth . |