Example sentences of "make a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover ( 18 ) he has made a few changes , but certain basic principles hold good : the look of everything is still turned into art history , and the meaning of everything is still turned into nothing , a nothing that sometimes seems despairing and sometimes only smug . |
| 2 | We 've made a few changes … |
| 3 | IBM had made a few changes ( very small ) and entitled it PCDOS ( because it ran their PCs , strangely enough ! ) |
| 4 | Even in our championship winning year we failed to beat the ‘ elite ’ sides in the league and although Wilko has made a few changes to the squad we still have basically the side and thus the same problems that have cost us dearly in the most important games . |
| 5 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 6 | I 've made a few attempts to try to potty train her without any success . |
| 7 | But by the end of our first year in Cornwall she 'd made a few friends and I was n't being bullied so much , so life became a little easier . |
| 8 | Now , for a second great war , she found herself in a country which was not her own ; although she had made a few friends , it was not at all like living among her own people . |
| 9 | I 'm pleased we 've gone away probably , you know , we 've made a few friends because everbody 's just said to me how well we 've played and you know , it was a great game and all that kind of stuff , so that pleases me , I just do n't like losing . |
| 10 | The scientists who designed Turry 's remarkable suit have made a few alterations . |
| 11 | His name was Roger , and he 'd made a few stabs at conversation in the course of the night . |
| 12 | None of the questions highlighted above by Bukharin can be abstracted from state policies in a Soviet type economy , even that of the mid-1920s , therefore once one had made a few generalisations about the need to transfer surplus from the private sector to the state sector of the economy , all else came down to precise policies which are not self-regulating but consciously decided upon . |
| 13 | But I 've made a few enquiries about him , discreetly , of course , from Mr Tucker in Nassau . |
| 14 | During such a study , a serendipitous observation was made a few years ago in our laboratory at Bangalore . |
| 15 | I was put in touch with a local historian who thought that the stone was possibly a Roman altar stone and said that it had been discovered set into the wall of the church when renovations were made a few years ago . |
| 16 | A similar suggestion was made a few years later by the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace , apparently independently of Michell . |
| 17 | Look for fish rising , try trotting down different lines ( but keep loose feeding your same one ) , do n't make any drastic changes until you 've made a few bites . |
| 18 | Only once the others had become used to her , once she had made a few allies , would she risk stirring up so sensitive a subject . |
| 19 | After these reconnaissances during October , a final reconnaissance was made a few days before the invasion , by the teams going inshore one night so that each navigator could show the paddlers their canoes ' positions as navigational marks guiding in the assault waves on D-day . |
| 20 | ‘ When the draw for the quarter-final was made a few weeks ago , I was delighted at being paired with Derry City ’ he declared . |
| 21 | All the events recorded in this book took place more than forty years ago and memories are apt to play tricks on us , so it may be that I have made a few mistakes . |
| 22 | SUPER SAVER DAVID JAMES may have made a few mistakes but he is learning all the time , says Liverpool boss Graeme Souness ( inset ) . |
| 23 | Although basically the same as that given in the Warhammer rulebook , we have made a few additions and included more explanation , so we suggest you read through these new rules even if you are already familiar with the original ones . |
| 24 | Why do n't you make a few plans , get your tale all neatly worked out in advance , the way you do with everything ? ’ |
| 25 | Before I regret the temporary arrival of my better nature , you 'd better let me make a few calls and see what I can do to get you home today . ’ |
| 26 | He told the Congress of People 's Deputies that , while he would make a few personnel changes in his Cabinet , he would not give up his position as Prime Minister until he was sure the reforms had become irreversible . |
| 27 | No , we 've got them sort of standing up on , on the top of our book shelf I suppose I could make a few lanterns for in here for Christmas . |
| 28 | tell you roughly what I want you to do and you can make a few notes and then you can tell Kelly . |
| 29 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 30 | We can , however , make a few generalizations . |