Example sentences of "she [verb] make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But still less did she want to make a scene or create any kind of curiosity amongst the people she had just left , so she allowed him to lead her from the room , saying , ‘ Yes , we needed to discuss those — er — charts , did n't we , Dr Russell ? ’ in case anyone was still listening . |
| 2 | I 've got a friend who is a punk ; her make-up takes her ages , but she wants to make a statement , to be noticed . |
| 3 | She says she wants to make a statement . ’ |
| 4 | But he looked so hurt that she tried to make a joke of it , |
| 5 | But the gloom did n't lift , so she tried to make a triumph of running away , but even that had lost its glory . |
| 6 | But when she tried to make a second foray she was hurled out bodily . |
| 7 | She tried to make a movement of resistance , but it only seemed to aid the passage of his touch . |
| 8 | She has made a crucial contribution to the race and representation debate in the U.S. Through works of self-investigation and transformation Piper explores her own racial identity and forces viewers to question their own values and beliefs . |
| 9 | In fact she has made a cryptic entrance already in the fifteenth line of this canto : ‘ … of Berengar his heirs was this Eleanor ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ You must tell your friend , ’ continued the lady , ‘ that she has made a mistake . |
| 11 | She has made a career as a backbencher , taking an interest in penal affairs and animal welfare . |
| 12 | She has made a choice not only of person , but of class . |
| 13 | We learn that John has had an affair with a fashion model ( Sunny Griffin ) , who moves in with her dresses , wigs and dog , but decides to leave after she has made a mess of the kitchen by boiling the spaghetti over . |
| 14 | ‘ She has made a super fitness video and the advance royalties together with her earnings from a Swedish TV chat show have helped financially , but they are not enough to maintain her in Beverly Hills luxury . |
| 15 | She has made a wooden impression in televised debates . |
| 16 | At times the loneliness of her position has brought her to the edge of despair , so much so that she has made a number of suicide attempts , some more half-hearted than others . |
| 17 | She has made a great difference to me , she was wonderful . |
| 18 | At the present time the English tend to play down the significance of affinal relationships but , even so , the statement " she has made a good marriage " is more likely to refer to the social and financial standing of the husband 's immediate kin than to the personal qualities of the husband himself . |
| 19 | She has made a list of the items the business owns . |
| 20 | ‘ After her initial difficulties she has made a very satisfactory recovery . |
| 21 | But I hope he 'll be able to make her understand that she ca n't ever have me , and that she has to make a life for herself away from me . ’ |
| 22 | If he or she undertakes to make a part of his or her income over to a charity for four years or more , the tax the individual pays on that income is given by the tax authorities to the charity concerned . |
| 23 | But by the end of our first year in Cornwall she 'd made a few friends and I was n't being bullied so much , so life became a little easier . |
| 24 | As he poured the tea , Peter wondered if she 'd told James about how she 'd made a fool of him ; perhaps they had laughed at him together . |
| 25 | She was feeling as if she 'd made a long , exhausting hike instead of just the kilometre or so that she 'd actually walked , but it was n't a bad feeling . |
| 26 | She 'd made a funny face . |
| 27 | Of course , she 'd made a big fuss about not having a Brownie ‘ Nuform ’ , but she calmed down when Mum let her wear her new blue party dress . |
| 28 | Azmaveth considered something for a few moments and then nodded to herself , as if she 'd made a decision . |
| 29 | She 'd made a point of spending every spare minute she could with her . |
| 30 | He never pretended to feelings he did n't have and if he thought she 'd made a fool of herself he 'd say so , but never to do her down , never to boost himself at her expense . |