Example sentences of "make a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like his suitors , he has never made a BBC programme . |
| 2 | Extreme have made a concept album ( Rule One of life : All concept albums are shit ) . |
| 3 | BIRDS OF A FEATHER actor Peter Polycarpou has made a shock admission . |
| 4 | Stirling , who arrived back bearing gifts of tobacco and rum , had made a lightning tour of headquarters , complaining of his treatment by the Eighth Army , and had managed to extract promises of greater cooperation in future . |
| 5 | In the process she had made a lightning circumnavigation of the British Isles and was now steaming hard down the west coast while we returned by the eastern route . |
| 6 | Buckminster Fuller has made a life-time study of geodesic domes . |
| 7 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
| 8 | They have n't made a cavalry sortie for three weeks , even though the cannon were n't in place yet : they must be killing and curing the horses . |
| 9 | Lord Salisbury did offer the Rolls to Clarke , who declined it on the ground that it would put an end to his political career , though he added that he would accept being made a Law Lord . |
| 10 | One was to be gold , since no-one had made a gold guitar before and such an instrument would be a perfect attention-grabber , and the other was to be black , black because it looked smart and also because it was the best colour for showing off the hands of the guitarist — provided the guitarist were Caucasian , of course . |
| 11 | We have therefore divided the number of clock pulses by 2 — that is we have made a frequency divider . |
| 12 | Last year you were made a life peer as Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn . |
| 13 | He was made a Life Member the following year . |
| 14 | He became a member of the Royal Photographic Society and for his works for the Royal Geographical Society was made a life member in 1917 . |
| 15 | Olive , acting as unpaid commandant with her customary zeal , was made a life member of the Red Cross , a signal honour . |
| 16 | George himself has deservedly achieved the status of a guru , and a year or so back was made a part time professor of medical economics at the City University . |
| 17 | This can be said in at least two different ways : a ) Those who sold quickly made a profit b ) Those who sold quickly made a profit |
| 18 | Mellon was made a founder trustee of his father 's A.W . |
| 19 | That means that when I 've made a spelling mistake you can say to me , ‘ You 've spelt that wrong ’ , but not , ‘ You 're stupid , you ca n't spell . ’ |
| 20 | SEGA brought Night Trap before the Board voluntarily , but had it not done so the game would have been made a test case . |
| 21 | When the President and a 28-member delegation ( which included his wife and children ) had made a state visit to Taiwan between Jan. 7 and 15 , numerous opposition leaders had condemned the visit as a pointless extravagance which Haiti , the poorest country in the Western hemisphere , could ill afford . |
| 22 | Have you ever made a daisy chain ? |
| 23 | In 1828 he was made a knight commander of the Guelphic Order . |
| 24 | And who of us has never made a phone call we did n't want others to overhear ? |
| 25 | Business friends , golfing partners , members of your fucking club , whoever 's on the board of your companies , anyone you 've made a phone call to , or had a confidential chat with , anyone who 's asked for help , or given it . |
| 26 | Schmidt had made a phone call . |
| 27 | When she arrived at the airport she reached into her baggage and quickly made a phone call to Amsterdam . |
| 28 | ‘ But what annoyed us most is Downey could have made a phone call to us . |
| 29 | The mother has made a phone call to the hospital asking after her daughter 's safety but she has not called back as promised . |
| 30 | I could 've made a fortune flogging beads to hippies . ’ |