Example sentences of "make [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One could detect a purr of satisfaction when John Major replied that actually some other European countries made rather a mess of things : that Belgium had taken 100 days to form a government ; that the Italian political system was a disaster and the French one not much better ; and that , if they had any sense , they would copy the way we do things . |
| 2 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 3 | From this month on , junkies need make only a telephone call to exchange their used , possibly-AIDS bearing , needles for new clean ones , delivered free of charge . |
| 4 | ‘ Shush , Mamma , ’ Rosa had said , and then Sabina had come in again with the bird — it would make only a bite to eat . |
| 5 | One outgoing player is striker Derek Parker , who made only a couple of appearances after coming from Hyde United . |
| 6 | I made only the semi-finals of the Olympic Trials . |
| 7 | Each stetch was limited on its two sides by water-cuts or deep furrows that made easy the escape of surface water from the soil ; and in fact the main purpose of ploughing in stetches was — and still is , where stetches continue to be used — to ensure effective draining of the land . |
| 8 | There is no guarantee at all that the former , simply by taking place in a teacher 's place of work , will somehow be more relevant or valuable than the latter ( a point made over a decade ago Alexander 1980 — in the context of a previous incarnation of current debates ) . |
| 9 | Our own interest in dunnocks was aroused several years ago by a chance comment , made over a cup of coffee . |
| 10 | From where she stood , the business of the Fish , the activity around the field , the movement of the crowd at the country meeting — dressed in a range from the metropolitan fashionable to a package of rags — made scarcely a blemish on the landscape . |
| 11 | He fought like a fiend , but made not a sound . |
| 12 | Can I make just a suggestion ? |
| 13 | ‘ But to suggest that coincidentally this recording , made just a fortnight earlier , was also picked up in the same way does stretch one 's credibility . ’ |
| 14 | Twenty eight years of age , Tommy , made just a handful of appearances for Sunderland before coming here to Shrewsbury Town and he 's made important contributions at both ends tonight , because his could be the goal that takes Shrewsbury past Blackburn and to a lucrative tie against Tottenham . |
| 15 | Its reappearance then — and since — made exactly the impact which the Gazette forecast . |
| 16 | ( Edited by Derek Hodgson , available from Yorkshire , CCC , ) The late withdrawal of Craig McDermott from the Yorkshire staff has caused embarrassment and inconvenience in several quarters ; at the ‘ Welcome to Craig McDermott ’ dinner which was held recently in Leeds United 's banqueting suite , there was one conspicuous absentee , and now the Australian fast bowler has made rather a mess of the Yorkshire yearbook . |
| 17 | Though that was not my subject at Aix , I 've made rather a point of knowing a certain amount of French Civil Law . |
| 18 | Wulfstan simply says that warships ought to be made ready every year after Easter . |
| 19 | This continued for eight days or nine , till the companions of the Cid had made ready every thing for their departure , as he had commanded . |
| 20 | The latter is no less important than the former , and if bibliographical decisions are made wrongly no amount of logistic information can redeem the situation . |
| 21 | Robert Hooke urges in his Micrographia that ‘ the science of nature has already too long been made only a work of the brain and fancy : It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things . ’ |
| 22 | I have made only a couple of minor claims over the period in question . |
| 23 | She has made only a handful of films in the past 20 years . |
| 24 | England full-back Charles and Scottish Under-21 international Wilson , who have made only a handful of appearances between them this season , play for the reserves against Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 25 | No I think it could save lives , because it means that we have immediate access er to what 's going on and so on rare occasions , life and death decisions can be made down the telephone . |
| 26 | She 's made just a handful of films in the last 20 years , but the actress says she does n't miss the silver screen — she prefers to dedicate herself to children 's charity work instead |
| 27 | Six out of 10 voters are still not buying and three weeks of slogging seem to have made not a jot of difference . |
| 28 | The Minister has made exactly the point that I was making — that , in effect , a tiny minority has claims that are unfounded and without merit . |
| 29 | Marital work was accepted by these parents in an effort to solve the problem , and progress was made once the father finally admitted that he had been told at work that he was too domineering and was unable to delegate responsibility to his juniors . |
| 30 | It turns out that the recording was made nearly a month before the procession , and a contemporary advertisement shows that the record was heard during the Royal Progress through London on 23 June . |