Example sentences of "was [verb] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film was intended to make a star of Twentieth Century Fox boss Darryl F. Zanuck 's latest protege , French actress Genevieve Gilles , whose first picture it was , after her success as a model . |
| 2 | The Grand Prix title could bring her earnings in just one week to an unprecedented £120,000 nice work for a girl who last year was considering taking up a full-time job because she was struggling to make a living on the Grand Prix circuit . |
| 3 | However it does not always go by size but depends on the subject , as Foujita 's young girls cost much more , and the year in which it was painted makes a difference in price . |
| 4 | But if I was pressed to make a choice , apart from Coldingham Loch , I would have to admit that the Whiteadder River is my favourite Border stream , and I confess that I have a vested interest in Whiteadder . |
| 5 | This study was designed to make a distinction between three different concepts of risk : objective , estimated and subjective , the variable of particular interest being subjective risk . |
| 6 | The exercise was designed to make a student stand in front of class , sing his song and force each syllable out in an elongated manner so that it had a beginning and an end ; this , Landau explained , ought to enable the student to go into neutral , physically and mentally , so that tensions could be released and what was happening inside could be heard through the voice changes . |
| 7 | At one point , too , the producer David Wolper was approached to make a film about Central America ‘ to tell the story better ’ , but he demurred ; he had ‘ the Statue of Liberty coming up . ’ |
| 8 | played rather a dirty trick on me because he did n't tell me that I was expected to make a speech . |
| 9 | On a quiet day , with few shares changing hands , the German central bank 's anticipated change in interest rates was expected to make an impression on the FTSE . |
| 10 | There was one witness , a Mrs Jackson , who had bumped into a man at the appropriate time , near Oliver 's premises in Cross Street , but the good lady was refusing to make a statement without the consent of her husband . |
| 11 | The point that I was seeking to make a moment ago — I reiterate it now — is that I think that it is to the advantage of everyone in Northern Ireland for the politicians of Northern Ireland , of all shades of opinion , to come together , to talk and to express their mutual wish for peace in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | There is a possibility that Aethelred was seeking to make an example of Eardwulf in Eardwulf 's own territory and that the attempted assassination was frustrated by Eardwulf 's supporters . |
| 13 | The position of Bob John was stabilized at left-back , Billy Blyth was recalled to form the ‘ three Bs ’ halfback line with Baker and Butler , and Dr Jimmy Paterson , the amateur outside-right , was persuaded to make a comeback . |
| 14 | Now , with her husband playing the ‘ hero ’ survivor of the post office raid in Two Living , One Dead , she was persuaded to make a comeback , as the wife of the other , ‘ cowardly ’ survivor , played by McGoohan , already a star of films and the TV thriller series Danger Man . |
| 15 | Clay was used to make a range of items ranging from loom-weights to the unique clay figure from Spong Hill ( Hills 1980a ) , but pottery vessels are the most frequent . |
| 16 | The excavated earth was used to make a parapet in front of the trench and a reredos behind it ; the front was further protected by barbed wire entanglements of varying depth and complexity . |
| 17 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council it was agreed to make a donation of £50 towards the setting up and running of this service . |
| 18 | If I was going to make a change , that was the time to do it . ’ |
| 19 | For one appalling moment he thought the fräulein was going to make a scene . |
| 20 | I was going to make a song and dance when we got the 100th subscriber , but 98 's near enough . |
| 21 | She said she was going to make a Will saying they could both stay on , without paying rent , as long as they wanted to . |
| 22 | In the normal run of events these would never come to my notice , but on this occasion I was going to make a plea of mitigation on his behalf and hoped that the Bench would release their prisoner into my care and he would be summarily dealt with in accordance with Air Force Law . |
| 23 | The Boro boss said Peter Schmeichel also had a good game and he could sense 15 minutes from time that neither goalkeeper was going to make a mistake . |
| 24 | Well I 'd forgotten that you were going out and I ma I was going to make a chilli . |
| 25 | After today 's breakout Officials at High Down Prison in London , where Evans was remanded , say they had no inkling he was going to make a run for it . |
| 26 | By then , Jack Nicholson had , after a lot of heart-searching , agreed he was going to make a movie out of Larner 's book for BBS , with Larner himself as joint scriptwriter . |
| 27 | I did n't see the same face twice for three weeks — there were so many sound stages and all these people , and on top of that , I was going to make a movie with Clark Gable . |
| 28 | Well we welcome the latter part of your comment , I was going to make a wisecrack about this is our idea of getting back to basics , family values , but I do n't want , I 'm going to stay out of it . |
| 29 | He was going to make a lot of money . |
| 30 | She imagined he was going to make a move towards her , but what he did was to hitch the child closer to him until his face was almost pressed against his own and then he smiled a smile that widened his full lips but , as she had seen before , did not separate his teeth . |