Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [adv] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But like , I could say to you , you know ah , you know , how are yo , you know , and I 'd probably make a joke out of it !
2 They said I 'd never make a manager .
3 ‘ The bugger said I 'd never make a businessman .
4 So that I would n't get involved with careers officers I 'd actually make a jump and that I would do the three wise monkeys and Hilary .
5 Another neglected master emerged on three LPs of Piano Sonatas by Harold Truscott , played , as in the Founds , by the indefatigable peter Jacobs ; they revealed a muscial thinker of a very high order who has been , and still is , cruelly ignored by the muscial establishment ( again , I understand that John Ogdon 's recording for Altarus of Truscott 's Tenth is due for release soon — and I would also make a plea for a re-issue of those other Sonatas on CD : they are contrapuntal masterpieces , sometimes witty , often beautiful , and they ought to be much more widely known ) .
6 I would never make a pass at Caduta — no , not Caduta and if you made a pass at her , I 'd beat you up .
7 ‘ I would not like to have the task of telling her that she would never make a crime reporter ! ’
8 Neither thought they would ever make a living from ice hockey .
9 Harbury rattled on : ‘ I know he 'd rather make a statement later on and give it simultaneously to everyone .
10 He 'd hardly make a fuss about an old skull , ’ Albert said , but went to Mister Johnny just the same and held out his hand .
11 He would never make a mistake about something like that .
12 It marks a change of heart for Scorsese , who once swore he would never make a film about the Mafia , and led De Niro to break a few rules of his own : ‘ I was in the middle of filming We 're No Angels when we started to discuss GoodFellas and began working on my role , Jim Conway , together .
13 And Mark — he would never make a priest .
14 But it would still make a bomb that could flatten much of a city and drench the place with fall-out .
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