Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] could make " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If only I could make you see how wonderful it is . ’ |
| 2 | If only I could make forty . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps I could make one or two notes , only a formality . |
| 4 | Er , perhaps I could make er one comment , maybe Mr Gordon will ma wish to make a a technical comment on it , but certainly when we began the programme and we discussed with the other nations in the early stages of of the collaboration . |
| 5 | So I thought well perhaps I could make a basket then . |
| 6 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 7 | I longed to prove you were unfaithful to him so I could make him throw you over — I felt like a monster with every ungenerous thought that flickered through my mind . |
| 8 | Pressing his hand against her bosom or kissing his fingers softly and reverently , she told him that she knew and had always known that only she could make him happy , that there was already a mystical bond between them and that if she could not soon feel his arms about her and his lips upon her own , she would sink away into despair . |
| 9 | She recalled that as a young girl she 'd often sucked slowly at a big lollipop to see how long she could make it last . |
| 10 | Perhaps she could make tea . |
| 11 | ‘ Then perhaps you could make a small room available to me for a few hours ? |
| 12 | She was tired of kneeling , listening to their voices droning on : ‘ Our Father who art in heaven , hallowed be Thy name ’ , and ‘ Hail Mary , full of grace ’ , which was all she could make out of the second bit , because what followed was just a mumble . |
| 13 | Madam Chairman if I may just make a comment of concern that information was not , on this point was not forthcoming to the county councillors of that area perhaps to make er give them an opportunity to make comment prior to you so you could make this delegated action . |
| 14 | So you could make a really nice outfit |
| 15 | But it was the scientist alone who could make sense of the discoveries , and late eighteenth-century naturalists had already begun to puzzle over the bones of gigantic elephant-like creatures found both in America and in Europe . |
| 16 | Perhaps we could make up a party . |
| 17 | Perhaps we could make a couple of trips on match days . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps we could make a performance ? ’ one of you suggests . |
| 19 | " Well , or perhaps we could make some . |
| 20 | But we have got a meeting on Thursday , so perhaps we could make a point of er coming forward with some possible suggestions . |
| 21 | If they were unshackled from the current over-rigorous financial constraints , perhaps we could make a real impact on a problem which threatens Britain 's credibility as a civilised nation . |
| 22 | Okay so we could make one lot of twelve we could make two lots of six . |
| 23 | We have locked them away , in the vain hope that by doing so we could make them disappear . |
| 24 | Have we got that here yes here 's a five and a three so we could make forty five . |
| 25 | Perhaps they could make a new life there together . |
| 26 | If only they could make this even a little communicative of what 's careering about in their heads , maybe there would be less physical damage done . |
| 27 | John — fit and well — said : ‘ The clinic 's doctors just tried to fool me I was dying so they could make money . ’ |
| 28 | whereas he 's got ta he says just one round here so they could make decisions for you . |
| 29 | As part of the process , the BBC also commissioned a confidential report to show how much it could make from broadcasting commercials to supplement the licence fee . |
| 30 | Knowing the amount of shelf space available helps the retailer to work out how much profit each area of shelving is making — and how much it could make . |