Example sentences of "[pers pn] would make the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know I 've made a lot of mistakes and there are probably a lot of things I should be sorry about but I would n't change my life , I would make the same mistakes because they 've taught me so much . |
| 2 | She would make the best of these few days up here , work and yet take time to relax and most of all to forget Fernando Serra . |
| 3 | He would thrash ; and she would make the same wound and stitch it . |
| 4 | Emily was being handed down to stand before the light-filled doorway of the Assembly Rooms and she took a deep breath of anticipation , this was her night , the night she was to be accepted as an adult and she would make the most of it . |
| 5 | He remembered the art exhibition at Royalbion House and how he had thought she would make the ideal companion for his life . |
| 6 | She hoped they would make the same allowances for her . |
| 7 | The 19 per cent who thought in 1987 he would make the best Prime Minister compares with 28 per cent today . |
| 8 | A total of 25.8pc now think he would make the best Prime Minister — up 0.8pc from July , while Mr Major 's rating has fallen again , from 17.7pc to 16.1pc . |
| 9 | In the car , on the homeward journey , Cassie found herself reflecting , as she glanced covertly at his profile and at the thin hands lightly gripping the steering wheel … those same brown and capable hands that had figured so prominently in her earlier fantasies … that he would make the perfect lover , if it were n't for his apparent indifference to women ; and perhaps , also , to having sex ; although this last was only an assumption . |
| 10 | He would make the extra money by giving similar classes away from home . |
| 11 | He would make the arrogant assumption that she was complaining about all the times separation would deprive her of him . |
| 12 | Later , over their wine at the Franz Joseph , he would make the odd tactful comment to Busacher . |
| 13 | In fact , there 's so much bonding on stage that it would make the average punter slightly sick . |
| 14 | May we have a debate on junk mail as soon as possible , to discuss a mailshot sent to many of my constituents by an organisation that is partly funded by Maxwell money which is so full of falsehoods that it would make the average time-share salesman blush ; which redefines the term ’ junk mail ’ and peddles dodgy , old-fashioned and out-of-date remedies which have been banned in most countries and which have passed their sell-by date ; and which bears the signature of an obscure Welsh politician , best known for losing his rag with Zimbabwean soldiers and for nutting people in public lavatories ? |
| 15 | As the matter spirals into the black hole , it would make the black hole rotate in the same direction , causing it to develop a magnetic field rather like that of the earth . |
| 16 | Not only were we not interested in how socialism was realized , we did n't believe it would make the slightest difference to the position of women even if it were . |
| 17 | Unkind critics of the Amstrad , er , Sinclair PC200 have suggested it would make the ideal present for someone with everything , as you would n't give it to someone who actually needed a PC . |
| 18 | It would make the whole exercise entirely pointless , but she did n't care . |
| 19 | Because if if people took advantage of the of these facilities it would make the whole business an awful lot cheaper for them . |
| 20 | It would make the green shoots of new grass grow under their feet in a most comforting fashion . |