Example sentences of "make [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As it turned out he did n't make that phone call until the evening and they found a call-box outside a pub in one of the villages , for Great-Uncle Hilbert 's phone had been disconnected .
2 ‘ Well , what in God 's name does that make that creep Callum , eh ? ’
3 ‘ Will nothing make that water cold ? ’
4 We can make that recommendation Adrian if that 's what we 're going
5 I 'd pack a bag at my place and we can make that motel alibi real . ’
6 Young Queen Conch make admirable aquarium subjects and are valuable controllers of hair algae , their basic diet , in the aquarium .
7 Eighteenth-century Bristol was an environmental disaster area with problems of atmospheric pollution that would make present-day Mexico City seem like a health resort .
8 But there was nothing conservative about the way in which Louis and his successor exploited the bishop of Clermont 's complaints against the count of the Auvergne to secure a foothold in the county ; it was their preparatory work that made possible Philip Augustus ' annexation of the Auvergne to the royal demesne .
9 The availability of good roads in Central and Mediterranean Europe , during the first half of the 19th century , made possible sales contracts under which the buyer paid for the goods upon the seller 's tender of the bill of lading at the port of shipment or transhipment .
10 He made persistent phone calls to Lynsey , visited her home , invited her to drinks and dinner — and trapped her in his surgery when he was alone .
11 ‘ But who made that telephone call ?
12 She made that air solid , and drew in stuff from the water and clouds of spinning gravel .
13 We 've got attendance I was going to suggest that we made that attendance stroke punctuality
14 ‘ Who made that phone call to the police at the airport ? ’ she asked .
15 But they were only relatively cheap because at the time I made that change musician union .
16 The phrasing of Japanese , Indian and Chinese music really fascinated me , so I spent a lot of time studying what made that music work .
17 The political forces which once made that movement move are now enveloped in a catastrophe that has two distinct dimensions .
18 ‘ Was it your daughter , Imogen , who made that trunk call from Scotland this morning ? ’
19 The bigger premises increased Lotus ' overheads , which made low volume production cars unprofitable to manufacture .
20 She held it on her finger and sang to it and made little kissing noises with her lips that he tried to imitate .
21 Ed made little finger pointings .
22 But in a game of few clear openings , Gunn coped well and the absence of the Sudbury 'keeper , who took two heavy knocks in the opening exchanges , made little material difference to the pattern of the game .
23 Accruing depreciation , stock valuations , provisions for doubtful debts , etc. , are subjective judgements which make historic cost profit subjective .
24 Hemmed in by bicks and shoulders , besieged by people wanting to shake his hand , put questions , or merely to remind him of past meetings , Cameron was struggling to respond and make each person feel attended to .
25 Make each cutting 3–4in long and trim to just below a node ( leaf joint ) .
26 During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 .
27 ‘ The change in people which alone will make political change work . ’
28 After a brief football spell with Bishop Auckland , Barron made 169 Football League appearances with Charlton , Wolves and Northampton Town and 118 Championship appearances for Northamptonshire .
29 straight and erm a lot of people make that , very experienced sales people still make that mistake cost they 're not used to it .
30 And I think what the Council 's got to do and I think what the what the what the theatre perhaps has to do is only make that leisure card more easily acceptable and available and also look upon the reductions that we give but that perhaps is a way of actually rewarding the people in Harlow to use the theatre and the contribution in actually paying for it at the expense of the people coming in from outside who perhaps do n't pay anything towards the expense of the theatre .
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