Example sentences of "would make [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked a little peculiar , but she would make everyone else look pitifully ordinary . |
| 2 | I would make myself some tea , I decided as I packed away my papers , then walk over to the post office to make my call to Crispin . |
| 3 | And then before eight o'clock then I would make myself a big meal , I 'd have a , a huge salad I 'd do tinned potatoes cos they were , on this diet tinned potatoes are n't fattening |
| 4 | Sometimes he would make himself useful in the kitchen by cleaning and tidying ; however , if accidentally locked in any room the Cauld lad would make a fearful mess , overturning furniture and scrabbling at the lock . |
| 5 | Normally her husband would make himself comfortable beside the fire , sometimes holding their child in his arms , and make small talk as she peeled the potatoes and washed the greens , but tonight Carrie knew it would be different . |
| 6 | Omar had a young servant called Demise , and there was another fifteen-year-old lad called Yusuf Nico , who Omar said would make himself useful doing odd jobs . |
| 7 | ‘ You know sometimes I wish it would make one that worked so I could fly away from here altogether . ’ |
| 8 | Maybe Mum would make one . |
| 9 | She sent me to that convent , thinkin' she would make something o' me . ' |
| 10 | She began to think of it as he , and wondered if he would make something of himself later on in life . |
| 11 | It was obvious to her that her niece already had the strength and resolution to ensure that she would make something of her life . |
| 12 | But rest assured : today 's public would make nothing of ED and DE , and I promise I shall give nothing further away . |
| 13 | ‘ I hardly think that my demonstration , added to that fact , would make everything clear , ’ Catherine objected . |
| 14 | He reached for her to kiss her again and Sally clung to him hoping that somehow the contact would make everything come right . |
| 15 | Child 2 : ‘ It would make everything dirty . |
| 16 | I would n't go in without any make-up , even a bit of mascara and powder for my blotchy face would make me feel better . |
| 17 | Because I thought he could use me in his own way , and that would make me happy . |
| 18 | Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine . |
| 19 | Mother would make me a packed lunch ; Dad deliver me to the bus station at St Andrew Square , Edinburgh . |
| 20 | I asked her if she had any medication that would make me a better surfer . |
| 21 | I thought it would make me feel less helpless if I was opposed by something definite . |
| 22 | Do I have any additional qualities which would make me suitable ? |
| 23 | After the show , he said he would make me one and so I said that I would really like a sort of Gibson 355 , like BB was using in the mid-'60s and I would like my name on it and all sort of things . |
| 24 | Mr Sewell said : ‘ It would make me seasick before we left port . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It would make me very jealous and insecure . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ My father would make me stand up straight and sing the national anthem four times . |
| 27 | I thought he would make me a delightful Uncle Richard . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd share your gin , ’ the Bishop 's wife said , ‘ except that it would make me further inclined to cry . ’ |
| 29 | I met him two or three years later when I asked if he would make me a dress for the March of Dimes , using some peony pink silk that Winston brought back from China . |
| 30 | My sister ate , but I refused , not out of sacrifice nor because I was resisting temptation ( I firmly believed that meat would make me ill , as my mother said ) , but because I knew — though this formulation is the adult 's rather than the ten-year old 's — that the price of the meal was condemnation of my mother 's oddness , and I was n't having that . |