Example sentences of "we make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made small talk to everyone we knew and I drank rather a lot of gin and ginger ale . |
| 2 | When he joined the organization , and later , when the meetings of the high command were actually held in your own house , we made certain inquiries . |
| 3 | On the second anniversary of his kidnap , we made sure John was in the news . |
| 4 | With our increasing clarity of the racism we faced daily , we made tentative overtures to involve ourselves in Black women 's activities . |
| 5 | Initially , partly sheltered by the great landmass of North Uist , we made good progress southwards . |
| 6 | We made good progress , but a combination of better health promotion , screening and treatment should deliver say , a twenty five per cent reduction by the end of the century . |
| 7 | Which we made good margins on . |
| 8 | The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace . |
| 9 | We put up posters , we persuaded work colleagues to vote Labour and we made financial contributions . |
| 10 | As the right hon. Gentleman pointed out , we made new arrangements on 5 November to ensure that income support payments can be paid directly to the lender . |
| 11 | Continuing up the easy gradient of the ridge we made frequent stops to admire the icy crest and fearsome north west face of Chamlang , soaring skywards . |
| 12 | Our first problem at Llandrindod Wells was to estimate the numbers coming to the lake , so each night during the spring we made hourly circuits of the lake collecting all the toads we encountered . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ We made special checks of the train stations to make sure the commuters got their copies . ’ |
| 14 | We made special provision for those with haemophilia and HIV because of the special circumstances that are apparent and because of the widespread representations that have been made to us . |
| 15 | We made special provision for the homelessness problem last year , and my hon. Friend the Minister with responsibility for housing will be making a further announcement in the next day or two about the homeless figures for which we are making additional provision in the current year . |
| 16 | In fact we made rubber stamps for people in the office — the departments to go in , the bureau , and the stamp was the J because they were all photostated to that made this stamp just loved it . |
| 17 | I watched her shuffle , wriggle and avert her eyes while we made stilted conversation about our lives . |
| 18 | We made anonymous phone calls . |
| 19 | In fact , we made considerable use of hypercorrection phenomena of this kind in preparing our phonological analysis . |
| 20 | If we ca n't find Simonica 's mum we must prove that we made very effort to . |
| 21 | We make stupid mistakes and end up with rotten little capers like this one . |
| 22 | When we feel guilty we make other people feel that way as a denial of our own sense of pain . |
| 23 | We make good time on the road from the motorway ; people actually help you overtake when you 're in a cop car . |
| 24 | When we make good use of power we empower others — in the way that wealthy philanthropists may make good use of their money in helping others . |
| 25 | If , for example , we find that the flowers in one corner of the garden do better than those in another corner , we make various comparisons between the two sites , and perhaps reach the conclusion that it is the lack of sunshine on the second site that is causing those flowers to do so badly . |
| 26 | 1991 has been a year of change , adapting ourselves to what our customers want from us , and , of course how we make strong profit from that . |
| 27 | In the course of fulfilling our social contracts we make moral judgements of work . |
| 28 | We suppose that 's a rule in our minds and that explains our judgments about for example and proform substitution and so on that 's so we define the notion of a constituent plus label it with brackets , and then we make certain predictions about operations that can or ca n't be performed on . |
| 29 | Every day , we make countless decisions — decisions based upon either clinging to the past or reaching for the future . |
| 30 | Of course , if we make factual claims in support of an ethical statement , then these can be evaluated rationally , by way of induction and abduction . |