Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] could [adv] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He connected a wire to his computer , ran it under the carpet downstairs and soldered it on to the line so he could still make calls . |
| 2 | He said something and I could n't make sense of it |
| 3 | She just lay thinking how wonderful it would be if she could actually make Pete notice her . |
| 4 | ‘ And if he could n't make love to his wife because she was paralysed from the waist down … ’ |
| 5 | But I could not make Adèle concentrate on her lessons because she was constantly talking about the presents Mr Rochester had promised to bring her . |
| 6 | Rosie said something about keys but I could n't make head or tail of it . ’ |
| 7 | His lips moved , and some noises came out but I could n't make sense of them . |
| 8 | Nenna was ashamed , but she could n't make amends , not now . |
| 9 | We could sell his story but we could never make money from other people 's suffering … ’ |
| 10 | But they could not make love . |
| 11 | A STUDENT , Sarah Molyneux , hanged herself because she could not make friends during her first term at university , an inquest was told yesterday . |
| 12 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 13 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 14 | You could feel the crowd willing it in but it did n't make it and I was beginning to feel it was slipping away , and especially when we could only make par at the 17th . |
| 15 | The scheme the mother and this brother were plotting entailed Sien somehow , and though he could n't make head nor tail of it he feared the worst . |