Example sentences of "they [verb] make [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 None of them has made a hash of things like the British government .
2 This growth of alternative markets for short-term money and the instruments that go with them has made the supply and demand for short-term money extremely competitive .
3 Up to 80 of them hope to make the drop .
4 The simple reason for which they failed to make the headlines and fire up the imagination of rugby pundits around the world is that they were blacks and coloureds in an apartheid-ridden South Africa .
5 He had no great difficulty in getting together the numbers he required , and simply told them that if they failed to make the grade in training , they would have to return to their original units .
6 They intend to make no statement at the moment because they are still awaiting the outcome of the police investigation .
7 If they intend to make a zombi of her , they will do it there . ’
8 Have you , Mr. Speaker , had any intimation from Ministers that they intend to make a statement , today or in the very near future , that would at least enable the House to question Ministers about that meeting and to show that , even if Ministers have no solution to offer , the Opposition have ?
9 Why do they want to make a meeting at eight o'clock ?
10 When they are given a chance to take a big decision about reform they tend to make the right — meaning the most reformist — decision .
11 ‘ I do n't think they want to make a profit . ’
12 Two girls ( just turned 6 ) approach ; they want to make a television .
13 Now , they want to make a commitment to the child they handed back .
14 ‘ I do n't like the way they want to make the film , ’ he said at the time .
15 even though they might be part and parcel of the same organization , they are not the leaseholders so they ca n't make the arrangements , so if they want to make the arrangement they must have the lease assigned to them first , then we will come to terms with them over land and to under le under let .
16 But , once they had arrived in large numbers , they tried to make a reporter 's life as easy as possible , providing basic material about the country and the war , easy access to military experts and well-protected trips to watch the fighting .
17 I do n't get the impression that they tried to make a statement by getting more and more obscure .
18 When they tried to make an arrest , the police were subject to vicious abuse and assault .
19 There may also be stronger incentives as a result of management 's having a significant equity stake in the company , and the stringent repayment conditions that banks and other institutions attach to the finance they provide to make the buy-out possible .
20 He and his colleagues were well aware of the more rapid progress in America , and there were regular transatlantic visits by headquarters engineers , but only when they were quite sure of new techniques and had discussed them thoroughly with the British manufacturers were they prepared to make a move .
21 Although a number of rather insincere sounding press interviews gave no hint of any rift ( in fact they seemed to make a point of stating the reverse , itself a suspicious fact ) it was said that Morrissey had taken exception to Marr 's increasing amount of non-Smiths activities .
22 He was determined to let the clan see they 'd made no mistake in choosing him , and was off on a round of visits to all the main families , to impress them with his strength and intelligence , good sense and good humour .
23 Then there was another one , outside the church , they 'd made a hole for a man to sit in there , and he used to sell papers .
24 I spent the whole of my first year waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and told they 'd made a mistake .
25 They 'd made a mistake .
26 I think it 's very instructive that er H B F did n't deny that they 'd made a mistake on this number and just talking about old people , er the fact is that eighty five percent of deaths in the county occur to people aged over sixty five .
27 Oh so they 'd made a mistake .
28 I knew they 'd made a lot of money .
29 They 'd made a vow , you see , all that time ago …
30 There they 'd lit a fire and cooked the rice , but before starting to eat they 'd made an offering to Ban Bhāi , god of the forest , asking permission to plunder his lands .
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