Example sentences of "could make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He half hoped she would give him one of them by mistake so that he could make a scene , but she did n't . |
| 2 | If we got a big name producer in , he could make a song bland or something , and that 's what we 're afraid of . |
| 3 | ‘ Tonight I could make a strike , tonight I could be lucky . |
| 4 | And if ever a woman could make a rabbit pie , it 's our Maggie . |
| 5 | Exploiting these fears , nuclear blackmailers could make a mint . |
| 6 | I could make a hole in the lid and feed balls of string through . |
| 7 | It was an old basket , maybe he could make a hole in it . |
| 8 | Many of them had had sex with other gays , but few of them had accepted that you could make a way of life out of it . |
| 9 | So I asked if could make a tour earlier , at 10am that day , to which the answer was yes . |
| 10 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |
| 11 | He did this with very little effort , and I gave him small wooden cubes so that he could make a cube to keep . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the French boasted they could make a neutron bomb , the US was still anguished over the spy story of Cheltenham as Prime got 35 years ' rumours of Brezhnev 's death proved true . |
| 13 | One of my friends was at Sherborne and speaks very posh — I took him back to my place for a drink one day and my dad was going , ‘ Dennis , listen to Tim , listen — go on , talk , say something ’ and my friend says , ‘ Well I do n't know what to say really , Mr Waterman , ’ and my dad says to me , ‘ Why do n't you talk like that , you could make a fortune . ’ |
| 14 | My master finally realized that he could make a fortune by showing me to people all over the country . |
| 15 | ‘ We could make a fortune . ’ |
| 16 | If you knew which horse was going to win the Grand National , you could make a fortune by betting on it . |
| 17 | You could make a fortune selling them to stressed businessmen . |
| 18 | You could make a fortune , ’ she said in genuine amusement . |
| 19 | That man possessed an absolutely deadly charm — a charm that could make a prisoner of the most stalwart heart . |
| 20 | Sooty was famous for his jokes and it was said he could make a cat laugh just by looking at it . |
| 21 | Before he could make a run for it , a voice said urgently : ‘ Right — get him ! ’ |
| 22 | I said all right , £50 , and he had it tied to the roof of their car before they could make a run for it . |
| 23 | We could make a run for the thickets or something , ’ he said vaguely . |
| 24 | ‘ I think Billy might just have been desperate enough to smash that chair over somebody 's head so he could make a run for it . ’ |
| 25 | Well , she felt in a fighting mood , and if he thought that he could make a fool of her in front of his girlfriend then he was in for a big surprise . |
| 26 | Yeah , a tie you could make a suit out of ! |
| 27 | Besides , the advent of a National Lottery next year could make a nonsense of the strategy 's premises about funding . |
| 28 | Other aircraft joined in the fight , and before it could make a second attack the Albatros found itself under attack . |
| 29 | If you could make a profit of approximately £2,500 per week for the fourteen or so unoccupied weeks ( a big if ! ) you would turn that excess of expenditure over income into an income surplus . |
| 30 | I 'm sure you do n't want to hear about Mark 's cousin getting done for selling crack mixed with concrete , or the Forest Of Dean whizzkid who tried to get the band 's mate to give them heroin so they 'd all become addicted so he could make a profit out of them , or Zac sticking his finger up a chicken 's arse , do you ? |