Example sentences of "and [pers pn] make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Psalm today said ‘ God , in your goodness , you have made a home for the poor , ’ but God needs people like you and me to make this home for everyone . |
| 2 | I did make the point that Mr Maxwell 's company wants co-operation on the eastern edge of the City , vis-á-vis their football stadium , and we ought to have some co-operation on the western edge of the City where all these houses are boarded up and empty , bought at double the market value , and I made that point publicly . |
| 3 | Apart from the accumulation of translated index cards , Edward and I made little progress , but our humour was good . |
| 4 | Sasbach was no exception and I made good progress with Pascal 's Pensées . |
| 5 | The snow improved as the slope steepened and I made good time up the 100 metres to the ridge top and along to the ‘ summit ’ . |
| 6 | However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run . |
| 7 | And then I , and I made this bit of a faux pas , I says , oh you must have got a very good rate , cos I knew she 'd been retired years and years , you see . |
| 8 | There was , of course , a great deal of fun as well , and I made some contribution to the musical life of INSEAD by setting up an 11-piece band which played at the summer ball amongst other events . |
| 9 | Mine is one of the biggest in the Oxford depot and I make reasonable money . |
| 10 | Now I believe that the time has come for us to think again about the theological side , the theological er and I make this proposal consider the feasibility of a theological examination anti- semitism and the convenor is ready to accept it Thank you sir . |
| 11 | Because I look at hard times and I make this vow : This will not stand . " |
| 12 | I think that the hon. Gentleman will know what I mean when I say that in the context of coming towards the end of a particular available time , whether it is the time for talks or the time for a general election , there is reluctance among certain parties — and I make this remark generally — to turn their cards face upwards if there is any danger that other people will not have turned their cards face upwards by the time the whistle blows . |
| 13 | So , you finish the conversation , and you just flick the handset , you flick the black button in other words , you do n't fully put the handset down , so you flick the black button and you make another call and the camp on does n't mature , it does n't seem to mature because it does n't seem to be long enough for the computer to recognise that the conversation has ended . |
| 14 | Said Mademoiselle , and you make this fuss and call out so loudly that we all jump in fear . |
| 15 | Edinburgh district council estimated the cost of clearing the backlog at £25.5 million and we made that allocation to it over a two-year period . |
| 16 | We called ourselves January — so inspiring — and we made this record which sold 3000 copies . |
| 17 | Our profits are disappointingly small in relation to , er er , the , er first half of last year er then , we had buoyant conditions and we made more money than we ever had before . |
| 18 | They disliked having so young a couple in the vicarage and they made that plain . |
| 19 | Gloucester never got themselves into gear and they made hard work of what should have been a straightforward game … in the second half they hammered away at Scottish … all but lived on their line but failed to get over it … |
| 20 | AWARD-winning Belfast agency , A.V. Browne turned in a significant increase in sales , despite curtailment of advertising budgets last year , and they made another milestone in another direction . |
| 21 | The results are published this month ( page 20 ) and they make fascinating reading . |
| 22 | He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’ |
| 23 | I never thought er Mrs that I 'd be seeing , I 'd like to see the excreta first but er could it be , could it be a dormouse because they enjoy the insects and berries and they make similar type holes . |
| 24 | Their models are their own or each others ' motets and chansons and the chansons of such Parisian colleagues as Claudin de Sermisy , and they make fuller use of the whole polyphonic complex of the model than their predecessors had done : how flexibly may be seen by comparing the opening of the Kyrie of Clemens 's already mentioned Mass ‘ Misericorde ’ : with that of his chanson ‘ Misericorde au martir amoureulx ’ : Bars 3–5 of the Kyrie are not the extraneous interpolation they seem to be ; they come from bars 18–20 of the chanson : |
| 25 | Well here are the answers and they make shameful reading for Premier John Major . |
| 26 | Long-firmers are experienced manipulators , and they make entertaining company for both prisoners and staff . |
| 27 | And they make grim reading every time . |
| 28 | He leava his Mamma and he come to Amerigo , and he make big noise in New York , Chicago , Detroit . |
| 29 | The politician who promised ’ peace in our time ’ was an enthusiastic fly fisherman , and he made frequent angling trips to Gloucestershire . |
| 30 | Dr Joe Hendron said the parties should return to the talks table without delay — and he made this point to Stormont Minister Sir John Wheeler yesterday . |