Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] makes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marr technique of painting is to go and visit the subject , where she makes copious notes on eye colour and other little idiosyncrasies that will help catch the soul of the dog . |
| 2 | Yvonete , who works in the nearby cigarette factory , takes us to her husband 's workshop , where he makes wooden effigies of the Christ of Rio for sale to tourists . |
| 3 | The natural habitat is the coastal waters of West Africa between the Rivers Senegal and Congo , where it makes occasional excursions into freshwater . |
| 4 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |
| 5 | As a final point about the root definition , it is sometimes useful to express it as a statement to see if it makes reasonable sense , and to double-check that all the CATWOE factors have been considered . |
| 6 | A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world . |
| 7 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 8 | In reply , Freud considers the rationalist argument that murder is not engaged in because it makes social life impossible if anyone is allowed to murder anyone else . |
| 9 | Whether it makes good history or not is another matter . |
| 10 | Mr Cable should get his facts straight before he makes false allegations . |
| 11 | Before he makes wild aspersions about other people , he should visit the school in his constituency , where he will find excellent education going on . |
| 12 | It is least successful when it makes stereotypical assumptions about women : that they behave in certain ways because they are mothers , or because they do n't work outside the home , for example . |
| 13 | You must prod him with coloured pencils , or tell him he must be joking when he makes heavy weather of something that another author does neatly . |
| 14 | And something I have not seen anywhere else , though it makes good sense , is that in these mainly narrow streets , the shops have their signs strung out at right-angles across the way so that you can stand at one end and read their names from there , without having to go down to look at them one by one . |
| 15 | Al Gore falls asleep as he makes maiden speech as Vice-President ; no-one notices — they 're all asleep too . |