Example sentences of "she [verb] to 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After a four month stay with her brother in Zambia , she returned to make a new career in nursing . |
| 11 | She began to make a mental list of words she hated . |
| 12 | She started to make a list in her head . |
| 13 | h " Do n't be so fresh ! " i She decided to make a fresh start . |
| 14 | She decided to make a herb sauce to go with the cold poached mackerel , rather than the mayonnaise Madeleine had planned . |
| 15 | She decided to make a fruit salad , and sat peeling and chopping as the children ate their tea . |
| 16 | The experience so thrilled her that she decided to make a career of it , and by the age of 10 she had performed in three Broadway shows . |
| 17 | She managed to make a half turn so that she could see the silver door , because perhaps she could reach out and reach over and grasp the elaborate handle and somehow pull herself out . |
| 18 | It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up . |
| 19 | It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up . |
| 20 | She published a history of the UDC , Builders of Peace ( 1924 ) , and from 1925 to 1928 was editor of the UDC journal , Foreign Affairs , which she aimed to make a more popular and widely read journal . |
| 21 | No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch . |
| 22 | In her bedroom now , sipping her whisky , she acknowledged for the first time in her life that if she had to make a list of the happy times , it would properly have to include the hours she had spent with Graham in his garden . |
| 23 | She had to make a claim against the insurers , because her friend had not had full cover for his sports car . |
| 24 | She recognized that she had to make a sensible framework of her own . |
| 25 | She had to make a decision soon , and there was nowhere she could turn to for guidance . |
| 26 | Then she would glance through the books she had bought , because she had to make a report on them . |
| 27 | She had to make a sacrifice . |
| 28 | She had to make a choice . |
| 29 | She had to make a determined effort not to look back . |
| 30 | At the end of the road she had to make a right turn when , a few hundred yards later , she came across the most elegant four-storeyed building . |