Example sentences of "and they make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They disliked having so young a couple in the vicarage and they made that plain .
2 Well I , I , as I say , I did follow it up and in fact , I even went to a committee where I sat and spoke to the er the police face to face and they made all sorts of promises but nothing materialized .
3 peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border .
4 I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets .
5 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 …
6 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 .
7 A green salad can be enhanced by primrose and violet heads , and they make appealing decorations for a cake .
8 A green salad can be enhanced by primrose and violet heads , and they make appealing decorations for a cake .
9 The results are published this month ( page 20 ) and they make fascinating reading .
10 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 . ’
11 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 .
12 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 :
13 Well here are the answers and they make shameful reading for Premier John Major .
14 Long-firmers are experienced manipulators , and they make entertaining company for both prisoners and staff .
15 And they make grim reading every time .
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