Example sentences of "they [verb] make [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how many passengers do they need to make that kind of money ? |
| 2 | He had seized the opportunity while they dined to make another copy of a revolutionary tract calling for an end to French rule . |
| 3 | ‘ I ate too much last night , ’ said Betty at what would have been breakfast if they 'd made any . |
| 4 | Even then , this is likely to be little more than an insistence that they begin to make some regular contribution to the household in the form of dried fish , tobacco , and so on . |
| 5 | Should they have made any small mistakes they will laugh and learn to improve next time , and if their performance was perfect they will be absolutely delighted . |
| 6 | But I do n't re think they realize what they were doing when they started making that flower border round , it 's going to be a never ending job . |
| 7 | For several hours they appeared to make little progress ; they were traversing a barren region of fine sand and yellowish clay , broken only by a few stunted , prickly bushes . |
| 8 | Examples of this may be : the agoraphobic person who never goes out because they believe they will collapse and die of a heart attack ; the lift phobic who believes they may become trapped in the lift and suffocate to death ; a person who avoids meeting others because , if a disagreement starts , they believe they will lose their temper and hit people ; and last , a person may obsessively check the locks on doors and windows , believing that somebody is bound to break into the house if they fail to make these checks . |
| 9 | They 're bi-lingual , they do well at school and they 've made many friends . |
| 10 | I mean , they 've made such strides … |
| 11 | I 've always voted conservative but I feel they 've made such a mess of everything I 'll vote for someone different this time . |
| 12 | They 've made that up I think . |
| 13 | They 've made all the little white blobs round and symmetrical . |
| 14 | ‘ The trouble is they 've made most of them into cigar and wallpaper adverts , ’ said Lucy brightly . |
| 15 | What if you camp on to somebody and then their phone becomes free , and this starts ringing , and by the time you 've picked it up and answered it , they 've made another outgoing call , so they 're busy a second time ? |
| 16 | The structure plan is essentially about where jobs and housing should be , not what sort of jobs and housing , and they 've made this submission to the structure plan . |
| 17 | mm I mean every Government does some good and some bad , but on the whole I think the Conservative have done good , because they 've made more people home owners than ever before |
| 18 | He often felt hungry when they had made such magnificent love . |
| 19 | To the crew it was a routine trip and one they had made many times before by night . |
| 20 | They had made many Hollywood films here . |
| 21 | Had the time come to forget the promise they had made each other , the guarantee they had given never to meet or speak ? |
| 22 | the probation service held their own inquiry to see if they had made any mistakes . |
| 23 | they did not feel that they had made any substantial contribution to the report ; |
| 24 | The children themselves appeared , and after a second summer spent playing at the M's farm , and becoming ‘ socialised ’ by contact with that family , it seemed they had made some progress . |
| 25 | The districts were chosen because they had made some progress in care programming . |
| 26 | But between them , he told himself , they had made this nest comfortable . |
| 27 | They had made this ‘ botanical extravaganza ’ , with sunken gardens and rhododendrons , out of a plot forty-five by seventy-six feet , in a London suburb , to provide a place of rest . |
| 28 | Anyway , they all sensed they had to make this work . |
| 29 | So as a result of that because it 's been erm changed in the nineteenth century the eighteen forties and eighteen fifties , architectural historians who we who were faced with a real problem with York cos York had something like fifty medieval churches and erm er about thirty of them surviving into into the twentieth century , erm and they had to make some decisions about which ones to preserve and which ones to let go . |
| 30 | This would show how well the catapult worked and if they had to make any adjustments in their aim . |