Example sentences of "they [vb base] make [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then , this is likely to be little more than an insistence that they begin to make some regular contribution to the household in the form of dried fish , tobacco , and so on . |
| 2 | Examples of this may be : the agoraphobic person who never goes out because they believe they will collapse and die of a heart attack ; the lift phobic who believes they may become trapped in the lift and suffocate to death ; a person who avoids meeting others because , if a disagreement starts , they believe they will lose their temper and hit people ; and last , a person may obsessively check the locks on doors and windows , believing that somebody is bound to break into the house if they fail to make these checks . |
| 3 | They 're bi-lingual , they do well at school and they 've made many friends . |
| 4 | I mean , they 've made such strides … |
| 5 | I 've always voted conservative but I feel they 've made such a mess of everything I 'll vote for someone different this time . |
| 6 | They 've made that up I think . |
| 7 | They 've made all the little white blobs round and symmetrical . |
| 8 | ‘ The trouble is they 've made most of them into cigar and wallpaper adverts , ’ said Lucy brightly . |
| 9 | What if you camp on to somebody and then their phone becomes free , and this starts ringing , and by the time you 've picked it up and answered it , they 've made another outgoing call , so they 're busy a second time ? |
| 10 | The structure plan is essentially about where jobs and housing should be , not what sort of jobs and housing , and they 've made this submission to the structure plan . |
| 11 | mm I mean every Government does some good and some bad , but on the whole I think the Conservative have done good , because they 've made more people home owners than ever before |
| 12 | However , I will bring your letter to the attention of the parish council at their next meeting to see whether they wish to make any further contribution . |
| 13 | The local bureaucracies of the less developed regions have unfettered freedom in spending these funds , and they have made many disastrous mistakes . ’ |
| 14 | The family are not downhearted ; they have made many people across the country aware of the Trust and their work . |
| 15 | However , that is a mechanical provision : Williams v Singer is authority for the proposition that the trustees can not be assessed where they have made such a direction . |
| 16 | At this point I do n't think they have made that decision . |
| 17 | Well at the moment Mr is not in a position to how shall I put it , withdraw his authority 's commitment or preferred option , they have they have made that decision and short of him convening a memb a meeting of the highways committee between now and whenever , you wo there 's no way in which he would be in a position to withdraw that . |
| 18 | I think they have made some positive statements but I do n't know whether it will work that way or not . ’ |
| 19 | They have made some suggestions for ways of improving the parenting provided , but there are serious practical problems in achieving a good standard of care . |
| 20 | Although they have made some ventures into the high street , their major specialism is the finance of international trade and they deal extensively in the foreign exchange market . |
| 21 | so far as they have made some er adjustment , we will be able to judge whether the scale of adjustment they 've made was a was a reasonable thing . |
| 22 | Erm , they have made some progress erm , but there is still one major outstanding item , which Jenny promises , on her return , she will take up complete , which is erm , new procedures for a continuous survey . |
| 23 | Miller mentions some of the trees in the Dictionary : Abies balsamea , Balsam fir , first grown in this country in the Bishop of London 's garden at Fulham , but states , ‘ the only place they have made any figure is at Woburn ’ . |
| 24 | While recent scientific findings about sleep patterns receive regular exposure in the media in popular N science programmes and in magazines , there is little evidence from the results of the Hull survey that they have made any impression on the public mind . |
| 25 | In the East , they have made this journey inside . |
| 26 | In virtually all cases secondary teachers have experienced least activity , although they have made most use of in-service days , staff questionnaires and pupil questionnaires to conduct the review . |
| 27 | Most women grow up absolutely torn and still somehow knowing that they have to make some kind of choice . |
| 28 | Normally , when Ministers face the problem of leaked documents , they refuse to make any comment on the content of the document or , sometimes , on its existence . |