Example sentences of "and [pron] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Saturday evening went on and everyone made use of the food and drinks on site , the Leisure Promotions team set about arranging the well-known Night Event . |
| 2 | ANTHONY GREEN ON HIS WIFE , MARY : ‘ I 've just finished a picture about Mary and me making love on my mother 's spare bed . |
| 3 | Each man makes the sword which will kill him , and I made Jessamyn Bonney . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ My safety was pathetic and I made things too easy for him ’ . |
| 5 | There was a hum in the air like radio static ; I took it to be his voice , and I made answers when the static paused . |
| 6 | After a long week , I received a phone call at lunchtime to say that the specimen was at the airport about to be collected , and I made arrangements to go up the following day . |
| 7 | And I made locks for lighthouses , I 'm not boasting my lad , and they 'd li locks , locks for lighthouses pretty near all round the world . |
| 8 | There were many goats on the island , and I made fields with high fences to keep them in . |
| 9 | Erm now you 've had a chance first of all I after our chat er par particularly on the phone and I make notes of people who er I think come well across on the phone because you know how important that is to us . |
| 10 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 11 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 12 | Ideal scene — Man U bugger up ( again ) AND I make pots of money out of it ! ! ! |
| 13 | I do a good job and I make mistakes . |
| 14 | I know when my stress levels are too high and I make time to manage them . |
| 15 | and you put the cluster of wool in it and pull it back and it 's like little bobbles of wool and er I 've got a beige and a brown I 've done it with it will look nice you know , it will come right here , it 's a beautiful rug , quite nice , so I 've been busy and I make coat hangers |
| 16 | It was a tribute to that engineering genius which made Britain the foremost industrial power in the world and which made engineers chiefs in the pantheon of heroes of the new industrial age , celebrated in works like Samuel Smiles 's Lives of the Engineers . |
| 17 | Yet the Empire which the British Navy defended , and which made Britain an Asiatic power , or a world power , or indeed a power at all , was not the few million kith and kin living in North America or in Australasia or mingling with the Dutch in South Africa . |
| 18 | Once this is accepted we can seek out the logical consistencies in contextual use which constitute ‘ structural principles ’ and which make sense of otherwise apparently baffling practices and beliefs . |
| 19 | In short , the phylogenetic basis of the id seems most definitely to be a set of basically egoistic and anti-social sexual and aggressive drives which cause all men to see each other as sexual rivals and which make sons desire the death of their fathers for possession of the mother and sisters . |
| 20 | Special meention must be made of C&P 's responsibility for ICI 's 50 per cent holding in European Vinyls Corporation , which was formed in partnership with the Italian company EniChem late in 1986 , and which makes vinyl chloride monomer and polyvinyl chloride plastics . |
| 21 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |
| 22 | ‘ You put things very nicely , Professor , and you make things very clear . |
| 23 | When yo , people just gather informally , and friends and neighbours and you make music and you sing songs , you tell stories , play instruments , do what you like , eat , drink talk . |
| 24 | ‘ And you make money at this inn-fewer-ants ? ’ |
| 25 | And then you see you come along where you 're pushing them to live on their own and you make suggestions . |
| 26 | On that night he watched himself in the mirror all night , and for the very first time he was the one who asked for things and who made things happen in the order that he wanted them to . |
| 27 | As well as Lewis and Barnett there was Christine , Barnett 's secretary , who had a voice as hard as her nail varnish , and who made Tim run errands for her , fetching bacon rolls from the cafe at the corner , buying stamps or pints of milk . |
| 28 | Over in Water Ross the deer are just part of what is seen as the larger problem of who is in charge , and who makes decisions about wild places . |
| 29 | If , at Z Press , the editors at Layer 111 find and develop manuscripts into books with market potential , it is their general editor at Layer IV who fits those books into the press 's overall list , who thinks ahead to their position on next year 's list and later allocates resources to their production and marketing , and who makes projections about the publishing and book-buying trends of the next two to five years . |
| 30 | But she and the other investors received 4,700 per cent on their investment , and she made Drake a knight . |