Example sentences of "could [adv] make [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could feel the crowd willing it in but it did n't make it and I was beginning to feel it was slipping away , and especially when we could only make par at the 17th . |
| 2 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 3 | In this way he was led to discover that the old laws could not make sense of these situations . |
| 4 | As hard as I tried , I could not make use of the staff , so I carried it , hobbling like a stage imbecile . |
| 5 | ( We have taken care here to ensure that an unscrupulous user could not make use of the calculus of expressions to reason about the large scale structure of programs . |
| 6 | And he was right , for unless they could lure the English across into the open they could not make use of their greater numbers or the advantage of the ground . |
| 7 | An observational study of a production line , say , although it might want to talk a great deal about the alienative effects of such work , could not make use of an attitude scale in the way that a questionnaire study might . |
| 8 | John , whose Gospel scheme does not include , except by implication , the story of what the church , equipped with the Holy Spirit , achieved , and therefore could not make room for Pentecost ( as Luke does at the outset of his second volume ) , nevertheless makes the same point with considerable clarity In the first chapter of his Gospel he stresses that the Spirit rests exclusively upon Jesus , the fulfilment of the messianic hopes of the Old Testament for the bearer of the Spirit . |
| 9 | Shift work could also make attendance at ATB courses difficult though in one case a part-time farmer had given his local organiser a copy of his shift programme for the next six months ! |
| 10 | It could also make process of up-dating too demanding to sustain . |
| 11 | His lips moved , and some noises came out but I could n't make sense of them . |
| 12 | He said something and I could n't make sense of it |
| 13 | ‘ And if he could n't make love to his wife because she was paralysed from the waist down … ’ |
| 14 | We could sell his story but we could never make money from other people 's suffering … ’ |
| 15 | But Surere could never make love to a woman . |
| 16 | Proof that investing in energy saving measures could actually make sense to an electricity producer came from an American expert . |
| 17 | ‘ It would be great if we could come up with a way of treating some disorders , we could actually make use of cannabis in some way therapeutically , that would be tremendous . ’ |