Example sentences of "make [adv] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could detect a purr of satisfaction when John Major replied that actually some other European countries made rather a mess of things : that Belgium had taken 100 days to form a government ; that the Italian political system was a disaster and the French one not much better ; and that , if they had any sense , they would copy the way we do things . |
| 2 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 3 | One outgoing player is striker Derek Parker , who made only a couple of appearances after coming from Hyde United . |
| 4 | I made only the semi-finals of the Olympic Trials . |
| 5 | Each stetch was limited on its two sides by water-cuts or deep furrows that made easy the escape of surface water from the soil ; and in fact the main purpose of ploughing in stetches was — and still is , where stetches continue to be used — to ensure effective draining of the land . |
| 6 | Our own interest in dunnocks was aroused several years ago by a chance comment , made over a cup of coffee . |
| 7 | From where she stood , the business of the Fish , the activity around the field , the movement of the crowd at the country meeting — dressed in a range from the metropolitan fashionable to a package of rags — made scarcely a blemish on the landscape . |
| 8 | Twenty eight years of age , Tommy , made just a handful of appearances for Sunderland before coming here to Shrewsbury Town and he 's made important contributions at both ends tonight , because his could be the goal that takes Shrewsbury past Blackburn and to a lucrative tie against Tottenham . |
| 9 | ( Edited by Derek Hodgson , available from Yorkshire , CCC , ) The late withdrawal of Craig McDermott from the Yorkshire staff has caused embarrassment and inconvenience in several quarters ; at the ‘ Welcome to Craig McDermott ’ dinner which was held recently in Leeds United 's banqueting suite , there was one conspicuous absentee , and now the Australian fast bowler has made rather a mess of the Yorkshire yearbook . |
| 10 | Though that was not my subject at Aix , I 've made rather a point of knowing a certain amount of French Civil Law . |
| 11 | Wulfstan simply says that warships ought to be made ready every year after Easter . |
| 12 | This continued for eight days or nine , till the companions of the Cid had made ready every thing for their departure , as he had commanded . |
| 13 | The latter is no less important than the former , and if bibliographical decisions are made wrongly no amount of logistic information can redeem the situation . |
| 14 | Robert Hooke urges in his Micrographia that ‘ the science of nature has already too long been made only a work of the brain and fancy : It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things . ’ |
| 15 | I have made only a couple of minor claims over the period in question . |
| 16 | She has made only a handful of films in the past 20 years . |
| 17 | England full-back Charles and Scottish Under-21 international Wilson , who have made only a handful of appearances between them this season , play for the reserves against Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 18 | She 's made just a handful of films in the last 20 years , but the actress says she does n't miss the silver screen — she prefers to dedicate herself to children 's charity work instead |
| 19 | Six out of 10 voters are still not buying and three weeks of slogging seem to have made not a jot of difference . |
| 20 | It turns out that the recording was made nearly a month before the procession , and a contemporary advertisement shows that the record was heard during the Royal Progress through London on 23 June . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've made up every word of it and you know it . |
| 22 | " No , my dear , you are just as tired as I am , and I shall rest presently in the dressing-room where I have made up a bed for myself . |
| 23 | Jim and Tina had made up a foursome with Jean Hay and Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 24 | Occasionally she went out with Diane from the neighbouring flat , and once made up a foursome with one of Diane 's boyfriends and another man . |
| 25 | The surface of the Earth is made up a number of plates , and these move relative to each other . |
| 26 | Cross-examined by Bert Kerrigan , QC , for Murray , Mr Mackie denied that he had made up a pack of lies because he held a grudge against his former boss . |
| 27 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 28 | Trow Gill is dry , a grass slope rising and narrowing to a breach in the cliffs at the top , a passage through it being made up a tumble of boulders . |
| 29 | But Mr Stewart said : ‘ You are a liar and you have made up the story about the gun and the threats to kill . ’ |
| 30 | Miss Southworth said the woman had made up the story to friends and was then forced to go through with it , after complaints were made to the police . |