Example sentences of "but [pers pn] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I make enquiries . |
| 2 | I am an attacker , but I make goals just like your Paul Gascoigne . |
| 3 | ‘ She can be catty , I know that , but you made things far worse than they needed be , ’ Luke retorted . |
| 4 | ‘ Chesterfield worked hard but we made things easy for them with the goals we gave away . ’ |
| 5 | The parents preferred to keep their children with them , just in case of another attack , but we made efforts to keep the school going . |
| 6 | We could n't shorten the walk , but we made people feel better about it . |
| 7 | In Finikounda there are no banks , but we make exchange arrangements for you . |
| 8 | We are a small concern , but we make ends meet . ’ |
| 9 | A lot of his films were unpretentious junk , but they made money and Nicholson and others came along in the slipstream . |
| 10 | But they made machines that did lace curtains , lace er is er a variant now , and er probably a thing of the past , but there was amazing things done on a lace machine . |
| 11 | But they made Esther very welcome , and they passed pleasant afternoons by the swimming pool and pleasant evenings on the terrace eating salami , cheese , sausage and salad . |
| 12 | But they make dustbins big enough now int it ? |
| 13 | In public he expressed great contempt for the system , but he made use of it to an immoderate degree , particularly by bestowing honours — undue honours — on the least worthy of his personal friends and particularly if the suggestion was made by anyone close to him . |
| 14 | Gary Blissett squandered the penalty in the 24th minute — Eric Nixon saving well — but he made amends by heading Brentford in front on the half-hour . |
| 15 | For a time Malins regarded himself as a Liberal Unionist , but he made policy toward drink the only basis for supporting parliamentary candidates . |
| 16 | But he made Tony practise for four hours every day . |
| 17 | But it made things difficult for me , at times . |
| 18 | We may be dealing with an energy currently unknown to science , but it made sense to start by monitoring known energies . |
| 19 | For fathers in say , metalworking or joinery , there was no chance at all of their daughters following in their footsteps , but it made sense for them to seize the chance offered by the printing trade . |
| 20 | But it made sense to keep the running titles intact and transfer them as a set to another forme on its way to the press , saving a little of the compositor 's time . |
| 21 | But it made sense at least to stretch my cramped legs , so I strolled down to the edge of the lake and lit a cigarette . |
| 22 | But it makes Trevor simply furious , although he 's not a person to show his rage . |
| 23 | Not only can it tolerate heating at 100°C , but it makes DNA at high temperatures compared with the 37°C physiological temperature optimum of most enzymes . |
| 24 | ‘ But it makes life difficult . |
| 25 | You do not have to accept this offer , but it makes sense to do so . |
| 26 | But it makes sense to limit your activity — if you exercise outdoors when air quality is poor , you 're more likely to suffer adverse effects . |
| 27 | But it makes sense to consider other explanations first , because family problems are far more likely to be the source of trouble than household chemicals . |
| 28 | You do not have to accept this offer , but it makes sense to do so . |
| 29 | But it makes sense for society to have a single regulatory body that does the checking and a law whose enforcement entitles individuals to assume that drugs being sold have been checked out as safe . |
| 30 | ( Strictly speaking these orbits are heteroclinic but it makes sense , because of the symmetry , to identify C " + with C and to think of this situation as a symmetric version of a homoclinic orbit to a single stationary point . ) |