Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She makes sure morning coffee and beverages get to the outbuildings on campus , then organises staff for special functions that day , checking they have all they need on the trolleys for the VC 's or PVC 's lunches . |
| 2 | She makes that bastard Kane look like a social worker . |
| 3 | ‘ But she makes nice chocolate cake and she 's handy when the cook 's on holiday , ’ she admitted as she examined her face in the shine . |
| 4 | The PLAYER stands with huge , terrible eyes , clutches at the wound as the blade withdraws : he makes small weeping sounds and falls to his knees , and then right down : While he is dying , GUIL , nervous , high , almost hysterical , wheels on the TRAGEDIANS ) If we have a destiny , then so had he — and if this is ours , then that was his — and if there are no explanation for us , then let there be none for him ( The TRAGEDIANS watch the PLAYER die : they watch with some interest . |
| 5 | Ashton does something similar in Symphonic Variations where he makes overall phrase rhythms from pas de burrée en place accompanied by very distinctive ports de bras . |
| 6 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 7 | It is just that the structure of the viral RNA happens to be such that it makes cellular machinery chum out copies of itself . |
| 8 | If a firm raises 1 million from issuing a bond with a coupon of 10 per cent , it makes annual interest payments of 100,000 at a net cost to itself of 65,000 per annum ( i.e. 100,000 ( 1 -0.35 ) ) . |
| 9 | It makes good business sense in another way too — because it is now cheaper to make plants that fit the pesticide than to adapt the pesticide to fit the plants . |
| 10 | ‘ It makes wonderful fish pie , ’ said Scarlet , ‘ with garlic and parsley . ’ |