Example sentences of "would [verb] make a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we are appealing for things to sell at the car boot sales , or maybe you would prefer to make a small donation to our funds . |
| 2 | Under gentle pressure he conceded that Riddle had mentioned the possibility of marriage and said that in this circumstance he would want to make a fresh will . ’ |
| 3 | Music and horse racing are Quinn 's great passions outside football and when his playing days are over he would like to make a new career on the turf . |
| 4 | I would like to make a slight amendment . |
| 5 | If at the end you feel there are points we have n't covered and I forget to invite you , would you say you would like to make a concluding statement . |
| 6 | ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things . |
| 7 | He would have made a great dramatic actor . |
| 8 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 9 | It was a fuss about nothing , and I greatly doubt whether anyone other than Randolph Churchill would have made a major issue of it . |
| 10 | His language would have made a Chief Petty Officer blush … |
| 11 | Sam would have made a perfect lawyer . |
| 12 | No doubt he would have made a nasty remark , and she did n't need to hear any more of them . |
| 13 | This village blacksmith was not a ‘ mighty man ’ at all ; in fact , he was much smaller than Micky , his twelve-year-old son , who would have made a good model for the Fat Boy in the Pickwick Papers . |
| 14 | He was always so quick witted and courageous was John that I always thought he would have made a good secret agent — a James Bond kind of figure . |
| 15 | He would have made a good bad Roman Emperor . |
| 16 | A FINE AIRCRAFT , which would have made a good strategic bomber . |
| 17 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
| 18 | Good Money would have made a good short , with a budget of , say , £75,000 . |
| 19 | He himself could always eat ; he would have made a good soldier . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you think you would have made a good Empress ? ’ |
| 21 | He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist . |
| 22 | No , neither did I. Would have made a good headline , would n't it … |
| 23 | This would have made a fascinating court case . |
| 24 | ‘ A Jacobite Guinea would have made a fascinating pendant to my collection . |
| 25 | He would have made a marvellous Wozzeck . |
| 26 | She studied law , was called to the Bar in 1974 , and — falling within the top 5 per cent of all people who have ever been psychometrically tested for verbal critical reasoning skills — would have made a marvellous lawyer . |
| 27 | Coffin thought she would have made a marvellous soldier . |
| 28 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
| 29 | Such stories would have made a lasting impression on my father and given him an early interest in Abyssinia . |
| 30 | A lesser man than the Archdeacon would have made a mental note to avoid this rash abandonment of the riches offered by the Prayer Book collect in favour of a misshapen modernity . |