Example sentences of "and [pers pn] make [adj] [noun] " 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 | My son spent a year at Liphook Junior School , during which time my husband and I made frequent visits to discuss our concerns regarding this apparent lack of progress . |
| 5 | I felt she desperately needed my help , and I made frequent visits and tried innumerable remedies I consulted my colleague Siegfried on the problem and he suggested a diet of charcoal biscuits . |
| 6 | E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns . |
| 7 | Sasbach was no exception and I made good progress with Pascal 's Pensées . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then dad and I made some cakes and I put notices about the sale through the neighbours ' doors in Swadlincote in Derbyshire , where we live . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was present at the public meeting at Hutchison Crossway on 26 Nov. and I made some comments , warmly welcoming the proposals and asking about the upgrading of a parallel cycle route . |
| 14 | I thought she meant her sons had died in the war and I made sympathetic noises . |
| 15 | Mine is one of the biggest in the Oxford depot and I make reasonable money . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Because I look at hard times and I make this vow : This will not stand . " |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Okay and you made six sets of |
| 20 | And you make ridiculous statements — as in your Born to beg article which asserts that the use of children by heroin addicts to support their habit is more ethical than aid agencies ' publishing children 's photos to help their fundraising . |
| 21 | So you , off you go and you make your fifty calls , and you make four contacts . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Said Mademoiselle , and you make this fuss and call out so loudly that we all jump in fear . |
| 24 | He asked her to come back as suited her to sign her statement , and she made all kinds of difficulties about when this would be possible . |
| 25 | The most important of these was the Save the Children Fund ( SCF ) ; Nina Boyle went to the USSR in 1921 to work in an SCF famine-relief programme , she wrote articles for SCF publications , and she made frequent speeches as a representative of the organization . |
| 26 | We put up posters , we persuaded work colleagues to vote Labour and we made financial contributions . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And we made two cars one big and one small . |
| 29 | We called ourselves January — so inspiring — and we made this record which sold 3000 copies . |
| 30 | 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 . |