Example sentences of "make [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Hard though he tried , Floyd could make nothing of the inward half and Couples , having gone to the front with a birdie at the ninth , was never caught again .
2 His opening 76 in reality had been his practice round because of his late arrival , and he could make nothing of the greens in his outward 36 yesterday , starting at the tenth .
3 MAKE everyone in the house agree to breakfast at the same time so you ( a ) get a clear kitchen , and ( b ) know you can get some help .
4 Sometimes they are perceived only by those in intimate contact , yet sometimes they can make everyone in a large crowd aware of individual feelings .
5 How does it make someone like a woman who has just had an abortion feel having to go to a lavatory to express her grief in tears ?
6 yeah , so anyway erm , he bought the car in to tell me that , garage down here , five hundred and forty eight pound labour right and that was put on another wing , save repairing the wing , put a new on , so what I did with mine is , I put on a new wing , right , and reduced the labour by sixty five quid to four hundred and five , I make plenty on the parts
7 Perkin had made none of the classic mistakes .
8 And talking of unexpected wine styles , Australia has made something of a speciality of mixing Bordeaux Semillon grape with Burgundy 's Chardonnay grape recently .
9 ‘ I 'd 've thought that Arise would have made something of a meal of all that — top financier in shares scandal ; weapons mogul arms IRA ; that sort of thing . ’
10 Made one at the same time together .
11 The well-known argument is that the woman 's refusal to concede to sexual intercourse is totally unjustified , since the two bodies have in fact already been made one by a flea , who has been sucking blood from them both .
12 But the stroke made none of the impact she was expecting .
13 He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career .
14 The bland Norwegian dropped it in so casually that Carrington made something of an idiot of himself .
15 Modern psychotics also often make something of a personal divinity of the sun , as the following quotation suggests :
16 Many couples stick with this covenant and the hope invested in it , and they make something of the struggle it entails .
17 ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said .
18 If you made everything into a joke , people thought that nothing mattered to you , that you took nothing seriously .
19 But do not make one without the advice of a solicitor .
20 He he did n't make one at the same time as , you know , to actually show the folds and that
21 Why ca n't anyone make one with a lid that stays on !
22 The only thing I might not , it 'cause they said they might make one with a C D R O M drive .
23 You can make one like the British O' level that passes only 20% of 16 year-olds .
24 Robert Hennell , 1741–1811 , a London silversmith , made one with a handle in the form of a nymph and the base as a dolphin , decorated with shells and rocks — all covered with a frosted finish .
25 Because every time someone screws they could make something with a will to live .
26 I know you 've got none fit in Munster at the moment , but hopefully the Lads in the Power Pack Section can make something of the ones we 've just lifted .
27 Here also there was a much older history of troughs and orogenies , most obviously the late Precambrian and Palaeozoic trough of Timan , which makes a narrow angle with the northern Urals , much in the same way that the " Palaeo-Rockies " make one with the later Rockies .
28 Participants are invited to bring kites or make one in the on-site kite workshop .
29 They , they did have the option that they could have had complete absolute egalitarianism and made everybody into a poor peasant , but the commun but the commun the Communist Party were progressive and they s saw that how that you needed to have industrialization in order to increase the welfare of peasants which was their ultimate aim , and I mean it appears that how that they did n't actually care er what kinds of means they 'd have to achieve that , as in capitalism was justified in this longer term perspective .
30 It is this particular scene which will make anyone over the age of 15 want to smack the world 's biggest superstar very hard indeed .
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