Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She makes peace with Paul , accepts a job as a lecturer in philology and finally succeeds in establishing genuine communication with Bernard . |
| 2 | From such things as mattresses , wash-basins and bath-tubs , she makes plaster casts and it is these that are presented to the public . |
| 3 | She makes net , reels you in like big fish . ’ |
| 4 | When she makes love she screams like a banshee , and things are inclined to get knocked over . |
| 5 | She makes love with her eyes closed as though she is trying not to look at him . |
| 6 | She makes love quickly , strongly , almost silently . |
| 7 | But then she makes music to send to other worlds ; music too , promising peace and cooperation in a new spiritually harmonious era ; music that defies gravity all on its own . |
| 8 | She makes use sometimes of ‘ residues of dust which leave strange effects . |
| 9 | She makes use sometimes of ‘ residues of dust which leave strange effects . |
| 10 | My mum remembers long ago when she makes snow men , together |
| 11 | go on then , my mum remembers long ago when she makes snow men in the snow and pulled a face at Mrs Jones |
| 12 | long ago when she makes snow men in the snow and pulled a face at Mrs Jones |
| 13 | My mum remembers long ago , when she makes snow men in the snow , and pulled a face at Mrs Jones , but I 'll know she 'll tell stories to make me laugh , make me laugh , make me laugh , she 'll tell stories to make me laugh and to make me feel this bad , I love my mum , she 's the best mum in the world |
| 14 | When Kaye 's not rushing round after her children , she makes time for her hobby which is collecting 19th-century watercolours . |
| 15 | Columbine became Mother Simone 's daughter , Lise , in La Fille Mal Gardée where she makes butter , churns and helps to spin . |
| 16 | I think I must be like my mother , she is always letting herself be interviewed , my father says its vulgar , but she likes it , she likes people coming to ask her questions about herself and how she makes coffee and who she his to dinner and what kind of paper she writes on , she says it makes her feel as though she really has got somewhere in her life . |
| 17 | She makes trouble wherever she goes . ’ |
| 18 | Then there is the tale of a lying girl , as she may be , with whom he makes love , and who alarms him with word of a threatening German — a former SS man , perhaps . |
| 19 | It is above a traiteur and as he makes love with Candice Riberon , they are bathed , marinated and fêted by the scents of the food from below . |
| 20 | talking to him last night , he makes bread . |
| 21 | Using an 8 x 10 inch view camera and black and white film , from which he makes contact prints , he has photographed his wife and her three sisters annually since 1975 . |
| 22 | He makes contact but ca n't hold it . |
| 23 | He makes haste to tell her so . |
| 24 | Furthermore , the excuses he makes smack of the old trickery . |
| 25 | And if I tell thee that his Guavas , Pawpaws , Ginger and Lime are in such plenty that yearly he makes abundance of wet sweetmeats , of his own growth that serves his table and makes presents to his friends . |
| 26 | His priority is people : it is through them that he makes profit . |
| 27 | His subversity is effective because he makes sense . |
| 28 | Listen to the man — he makes sense . |
| 29 | He makes fun Orwells 's notion of an elite ; yet the Chinese are now confronted with the problems Wells discussed almost a century ago . |
| 30 | For , I suppose , is that he makes furniture , he 's good with wood . |