Example sentences of "make a [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has also made a film telling young people not to do the same . |
| 2 | A very weird man — who , if The Pistols had stayed together , could have made a fortune flogging those snaps to a Sunday dreadful . |
| 3 | Like his men , he has made a blanket-roll to carry immediate necessities rather than burdening himself with a blanket bag or other form of knapsack . |
| 4 | ‘ The full weight of the Children 's Department came down on us for that scene and , in retrospect , I realised I had made a mistake letting that go through . |
| 5 | It 's unfortunate that yet again the Mercury got it wrong they stated that we had made a decision to close four homes |
| 6 | still we want this , we want this , they 've made a request to have this done and it 's government funded and so it 's quite an interesting project really just to record things |
| 7 | In 1859 , as a ten-year-old abandoned orphan , he is found and adopted by the Cheyenne , and is made a brave called Little Big Man by Chief Old Lodge Skins ( Chief Dan George ) . |
| 8 | The State President also made a commitment to review covert funding operations . |
| 9 | The Bok selectors do , however , seem to have made an effort to add some pace to the back row in the form of Pretorius and Richter , both of whom showed well when Northern Transvaal produced comfortably the best provincial performance of the Antipodean tours to take the Wallabies to the wire . |
| 10 | Elsewhere , Duncan and I have made an attempt to overcome these problems by putting forward a conceptual view of local politics which stresses the social relations involved , which highlights the importance of the locality , and which is based on the notion that local state institutions can be at once an agent of , and an obstacle to , central demands ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | These Scotch women were tough and sure could make a person feel small . |
| 12 | A beautiful lady with as much charisma as Marilyn Monroe still maintains , can make a man feel romantic when this lovely creature is shown performing a kind of fan dance with all four fans in motion . |
| 13 | A good negotiator can make a customer feel satisfied after they have had to work hard for a small discount . |
| 14 | No individual MP can make a proposal to spend public money or raise taxes . |
| 15 | An example might be to focus on car number plates and seeing if you can make a word containing all the letters of the plate number , or in a supermarket look out for all items costing a particular amount of money , or in a crowded room noting the number of people with blue eyes . |
| 16 | Index Pages These provide lists of options , from which the user must make a selection to access particular facilities . |
| 17 | ‘ Can you make a living doing this ? ’ |
| 18 | Lucy says to Panama , matter of factly : ‘ You can make a dog stop that by sticking your finger up its bottom . ’ |
| 19 | I suppose I had better make a move to get some clothes on you think ? |
| 20 | Most men with a modicum of experience can make a woman feel special , you know , ’ he murmured soothingly . |
| 21 | Any reasonably proficient man can make a woman feel special . |
| 22 | ‘ Yesterday was yesterday , and , as you so rightly pointed out , any reasonably proficient man can make a woman feel special . |
| 23 | The Milton Humberside whose looks could make a woman turn weak at the knees , and whose ducted fluorescent shelf units were in use from Hartlepool to Exeter and back again ? |
| 24 | But local practice made a union appear essential ; to have a single one — compared with the half-dozen common at other British car plants — was new . |
| 25 | There was a very obvious kink where the avenue made a bend to avoid some particularly valuable eighteenth-century houses . |
| 26 | As well as business problems Mr Liffen , 47 , who made a fortune importing Italian electrical goods in the Seventies , also had domestic troubles , police said . |
| 27 | I made a note to get some . |
| 28 | On the way home she made a detour to pick wild flowers for her mother , who was down at the harbour gutting pilchards and would be late back . |
| 29 | She now made a living giving private lessons in English . |
| 30 | It acknowledged the deep-rooted nature of heterosexism and made a commitment to fight that . |