Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 When she makes the occasional mistake , he points it out discreetly and quietly .
16 So you would need to look carefully at her stories and other writing , and see if she makes the same kind of mistake here .
17 She makes an obscene gesture .
18 She is unable to define a radical alternative to agricultural improvement , yet she makes an interesting defence of the rights which are being threatened .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 The moment he makes a great catch it surprises you , but then you think : Gee , that 's what he does . ’
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 In A High And Lonely Place he makes a trenchant analysis of the despoilation of the Cairngorms .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 I do so want to help him before he makes a complete fool of himself .
29 He makes a firm proposal that the age of majority should be gradually reduced to 10 years , and remarks :
30 Whether or not he makes a good King , we shall have wait and see .
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