Example sentences of "she make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time she made sure Maggie ate the meat and the pie herself , and forced her to drink a cupful of milk . |
| 2 | The room was silent save for the angry swishing sound she made each time she turned the magazine 's pages . |
| 3 | In her flat and comfortable lace-up shoes , she made good progress on her daily outing . |
| 4 | She made strenuous efforts to tame her behaviour when she was indoors , never rattling her earrings during Mass , nor racing along the stone corridors as if they were open fields . |
| 5 | Throughout most of her reign , and particularly in its early years , she made strenuous efforts to show herself an adherent of advanced theories of government and of the ideas of the French Enlightenment in general . |
| 6 | Even during the much more disastrous Seven Years War she made strenuous efforts under the Duc de Choiseul to recover her lost seapower , and these were continued in the 1760s and 1770s . |
| 7 | She made that air solid , and drew in stuff from the water and clouds of spinning gravel . |
| 8 | She made two journeys up it , muttering to herself : ‘ It 's the last thing I do for the nigger . |
| 9 | When the kettle boiled , she made two cups of instant coffee . |
| 10 | She made little money from journalism , having criticized too many auras for her own good . |
| 11 | At Duns Sheriff Court , Sheriff James Paterson warned 34-year-old Mary Warnock , of Stobswood , Duns , that unless she made substantial inroads to the total within 12 months , she would face a prison sentence . |
| 12 | She made hurried inquiries as to Zambia 's progress , to which Tammuz responded carefully , alerted by her mood . |
| 13 | She recalled the Italian prisoners-of-war in their unsoldierly uniforms who had worked on the estate for a time towards the end of the war ; she made civil mention of another of Leon 's countrymen who had sold ice-cream on Norwich market when she was a girl . |
| 14 | She made all sorts of things in there and Endill would hear bangs and thumps all day long when she was working on something special . |
| 15 | He asked her to come back as suited her to sign her statement , and she made all kinds of difficulties about when this would be possible . |
| 16 | The most important of these was the Save the Children Fund ( SCF ) ; Nina Boyle went to the USSR in 1921 to work in an SCF famine-relief programme , she wrote articles for SCF publications , and she made frequent speeches as a representative of the organization . |
| 17 | She remained in Paris during World War I , though she made frequent trips to the Brittany coast , where she did profoundly moving drawings of children . |
| 18 | Beginning in the mid-1870s , she made annual lecture tours throughout England and Scotland , often speaking to audiences of several thousand people on a variety of literary and social topics . |
| 19 | She made friendly overtures , invited her to stay in their large , warm , scenic , colourful , untidy house in Sussex , told Alix to live for herself and look to the future , offered to look after the baby whenever Alix needed a break . |
| 20 | All night long she made mental notes of all the transactions being made , the profits , the losses , meetings , separations , the wanting , having , getting , seeing , the excess , the moderation , the negotiations ; all those men trying to work out what they wanted , what they could afford , what they needed . |
| 21 | It 's a three-day Congress er and what we do in our Guild , we have , we had a house party on a Tuesday night and she 's told me she made twenty-six Pounds and erm we , we send our , our delegate Congress with that money you see , er because you see , er women would not if you could n't say you could sponsor them . |
| 22 | She made accurate notes and made it clear what was fact and what was her opinion . |
| 23 | I was rather devastated when she told me she was moving to Crieff , as she made major contributions to the work of the Library here ; she had a long-term future , and her personality made many friends for the Library among our users . |
| 24 | She made few demands on her parents but sat quietly , playing with an orange in a plastic mug . |
| 25 | TWO and a half years after she made national headlines with her searing attack on George Bush at the 1988 Democratic national convention , Ann Richards was inaugurated as Texas 's 45th governor on January 15th . |
| 26 | But she made light work of polishing off the shopping at a supermarket near her West London home . |
| 27 | She made 2 complaints to the review panel . |
| 28 | After what he 'd said she did n't dare turn the key in the lock , but she made short work of undressing . |
| 29 | During the first decade of the eighteenth century she made further journeys through some of the southern counties and about 1712 she visited Epsom , Hampton Court , and Windsor . |
| 30 | As she pulled on a pair of faded jeans and a sweatshirt , she made another decision . |