Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | She makes a languorous gesture with her arm . |
2 | Because she 's good in earthquakes and she makes a great cup of tea . |
3 | This prepares the horse 's neck muscles so its response to the needle is decreased ; and it relaxes the vet 's hand and arm muscles so that he or she makes a better job of it ! |
4 | ‘ Feminine ’ does often suggest positive ( although limited ) values like petite , delicate and caring as in ‘ She makes a good nurse because she is very feminine ’ . |
5 | A pleasant and sympathetic executive , she makes a good team player . |
6 | By avoiding simplistic assumptions about the united male medical profession manipulating supine female patients , she makes a major contribution to our understanding of a complex part of medical history . |
7 | She makes a useful distinction between three types of film-viewing : dominant readings , negotiated readings which are critical of what is on offer but nevertheless accept the underlying ideology , and oppositional readings which can range from outright rejection to the creation of subversive meanings . |
8 | Sometimes a doe will extend a dead end within a burrow and construct her breeding chamber ; more usually she makes a small hole either out in open terrain or sometimes in a hedgerow . |
9 | She makes a special suit of blue and silver and buys blue shoes . |
10 | When the hon. Member for Derby , South is pressed , she makes a clear statement that it is nothing but an aspiration . |
11 | She makes a rude gesture , involving several hypothetical orifices , then strides over to plant herself on the arm of Rainbow 's chair . |
12 | She makes a little lurch forward and he has the tray . |
13 | But roots will out and this month she makes a triumphal re-entry to SoHo in a former high-ceilinged , window-fronted exercise studio directly across from the Angelika Film Center on Houston Street . |
14 | On the one hand she makes a speculative diagnosis of him , out of Adlerian psychology ; on the other hand she half believes — but ca n't quite bring herself to say — that the blame lies with England , for virtually expelling him a quarter-century before . |
15 | She makes an obscene gesture . |
16 | She is unable to define a radical alternative to agricultural improvement , yet she makes an interesting defence of the rights which are being threatened . |
17 | If she makes an old-fashioned choice and lovingly tends a garden and a bumper crop of children , she rates louder Hosannas than ever before . |
18 | Characterising the individual speaker 's topic as ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ incorporates both that element which the conversational analyst tends to abstract as the ‘ topic of conversation ’ for the participants ( 'What we 're talking about' ) and the individual speaker 's version ( 'I think' ) , as he/she makes a conversational contribution . |
19 | He makes a convincing case for links of various sorts and degrees between West European countries going back as much as 5,000 years , but his thesis has one weakness . |
20 | The moment he makes a great catch it surprises you , but then you think : Gee , that 's what he does . ’ |
21 | First , he makes a great deal of the struggle with Satan in which Jesus is involved both in the temptation in the wilderness into which the Spirit thrusts him ( Mark 1:12 ) immediately after his baptism ; and also in the healings and exorcisms which follow during the ministry . |
22 | He makes a great deal , as we have seen , of the gift of the Holy Spirit to Jesus : but only once in the ministry does he speak of the disciples having the Spirit . |
23 | In A High And Lonely Place he makes a trenchant analysis of the despoilation of the Cairngorms . |
24 | Much has changed since he was at the Academy in 1959 and he will soon see just how much When he makes a personal tour of the Academy . |
25 | Like both the Aristotelians and Gassendi , Locke talks of their ‘ natures ’ or ‘ essences ’ , but in doing so he makes a sharp distinction between ‘ real ’ and ‘ nominal ’ essence . |
26 | I do so want to help him before he makes a complete fool of himself . |
27 | He makes a firm proposal that the age of majority should be gradually reduced to 10 years , and remarks : |
28 | Whether or not he makes a good King , we shall have wait and see . |
29 | He makes a good point there , though I would have preferred Craig Redpath , the swashbuckling Melrose full-back , as back-up for Gavin Hastings . |
30 | He makes a good point . |