Example sentences of "make [noun] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made camp at the top of a bank by a fallen tree . |
| 2 | They made camp at the top of a bank by a fallen tree . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Once or twice Bully had made bites at the basket . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | West Ham 's first-team coach angrily refutes the charge that he made V-signs at the lout during the 5-1 victory . |
| 12 | And such problems can make difficulties at the management level . |
| 13 | ‘ We do n't make jokes at the expense of the unemployed . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However , they made flesh at the expense of milk : the breed does seem to milk better in harder conditions . |
| 16 | He made jibes at the expense of more energetic writers , saying that they were cheap and did not rewrite enough . |
| 17 | So I made enquiries at the hall . |
| 18 | They do n't they do n't make crab at the end . |
| 19 | It 's not as though we were n't making money at the time either . |
| 20 | YOUR TASK : often you will have been given an explicit purpose for making notes at the outset . |
| 21 | Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing . |
| 22 | And you 're not I suppose , Léonie shouted : just a holy tart , making eyes at the Bishop to feel important . |
| 23 | I often see people who look about my own age working in shops or making appointments at the optician 's even sitting at desks in estate agency showrooms . |
| 24 | Still , he quite liked making jokes at the expense of other authors . |
| 25 | Non-stop swearing , stripping off on the field , making V-signs at the sponsor 's daughter . |
| 26 | The verderers also co-operated with the foresters in supervising the exercise of customary rights within the forest , such as taking wood for fuel , fencing and house-repair ; in making arrangements at the swanimote for the agistment of the king 's demesne woods ; and in carrying out various inquiries in the forest into such matters as the rights of the Crown and the perquisites of the Forest officers . |
| 27 | Since then , we have gone on making love at the club during the day when it is quiet . |
| 28 | In 1976 in London while he was making Shout at the Devil , he told me , ‘ I 've been burning myself out . |
| 29 | Though he 's handed down management of the firm to his daughter Margaret , Cyril still spends each morning making sandwiches at the back of the shop … then it 's off to the bakery in nearby Wanborough in the afternoon . |
| 30 | Thus from the start he was temperamentally disposed to look not only at strategies which promised to save money but also at those which offered at least some hope ( if not of winning the Cold War ) of making gains at the expense of the USSR . |