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

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1 A CLASSIC Rolls-Royce limousine which had been in the same Scottish family for 60 years made £21,275 at a Sotheby 's weekend car sale at the Royal Air Force museum , Hendon , North London .
2 They made camp at the top of a bank by a fallen tree .
3 They made camp at the top of a bank by a fallen tree .
4 But , when you 're doing that you make assessment at the end of it to say what level you have , you 've got to target specifically at certain things .
5 Whether you make notes at a lecture , in the library or from textbooks that you are reading , they must be the finished article in its final shape , except for the colour coding indicating ranges of importance .
6 Frederick now attempted to have his approved pope , Victor , recognised by Louis VII of France , and both he and Rainald made speeches at the synod at St-Jean-de-Losne declaring that the Emperor had sole authority to decide a papal election .
7 This was made plain at a meeting with the Ledingham-Smiths .
8 This difference , together with the obliquity , made it necessary on the one hand to excavate to a considerable depth at the bottom and to add a 30 foot embankment of made ground at the top , involving a vast amount of earth moving that , on the face of it seems hardly to have been necessary .
9 Tough-talking Deryck Maughan ( above ) , the former British Treasury official who made Salomon Brothers the most profitable foreign brokerage in Tokyo , has been made vice-chairman at the firm 's New York HQ .
10 The news that Karen and I were married was made public at a buffet brunch given by Thomas and Lynn Carter to which we had been invited — or rather Karen had been invited , and had asked if it would be all right to bring me along .
11 The petition was made public at a conference in the House of Lords as part of a campaign by the Alert group which aims to meet growing concern about the threat of legalised euthanasia .
12 So it is perhaps not surprising , though it was n't made public at the time , that IBM last year paid a seven figure sum to what was then Interactive Systems Corp for the substantial body of Unix development work that Interactive provided to IBM 's Advanced Interactive Executive , AIX , effort .
13 Mr Major rejected the appeal and insisted the donations from Nadir 's companies had not been illegal , even though they were not made public at the time .
14 The results of the judges ' deliberations will be made public at an awards dinner arranged by SITE on 16 March .
15 Once or twice Bully had made bites at the basket .
16 So he experienced society from the bottom up , before talent and determination made room at the top for him : ‘ That was a most valuable bit of education for which I shall always be grateful both to my bourgeois ancestry as well as to the regime , ’ he was to say later .
17 West Ham 's first-team coach angrily refutes the charge that he made V-signs at the lout during the 5-1 victory .
18 And such problems can make difficulties at the management level .
19 ‘ We do n't make jokes at the expense of the unemployed . ’
20 I mean I was interested a a a another very interesting point you made Mike at the beginning , you said that is there , had there been studies that show the standards of French industrial relations did you say that , that this has kind of become a pattern for industrial relations conflict in France .
21 However , they made flesh at the expense of milk : the breed does seem to milk better in harder conditions .
22 Williams made friends at the Slade including the late Allan Gwynne-Jones RA and Bernard Dunstan , who had left the Slade but was still working in Oxford , and who , with his wife Diana Armfield , has remained a close friend .
23 He made jibes at the expense of more energetic writers , saying that they were cheap and did not rewrite enough .
24 So I made enquiries at the hall .
25 When I found out the identity of the person owning or occupying the flat at I made enquiries at the police station 's department in that office erm they they keep records of any , any information about persons in the area and beyond .
26 They do n't they do n't make crab at the end .
27 It 's not as though we were n't making money at the time either .
28 YOUR TASK : often you will have been given an explicit purpose for making notes at the outset .
29 Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing .
30 And you 're not I suppose , Léonie shouted : just a holy tart , making eyes at the Bishop to feel important .
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