Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [adv] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shoved my shirt in my mouth first , so I would n't make a noise . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I would not make a case for Pears to be better than Manchester United 's Peter Schmeichel , but there is no-one more consistent . |
| 4 | I would never make a pass at Caduta — no , not Caduta and if you made a pass at her , I 'd beat you up . |
| 5 | She would n't make a wife to any man , or if she did she 'd ruin him . ’ |
| 6 | The first row the husband stabbed the wife and she would n't make a complaint about it . |
| 7 | ‘ I would not like to have the task of telling her that she would never make a crime reporter ! ’ |
| 8 | " You would n't make a profit on Lord Jim anyway " , he added , " I do n't regard her as an investment . |
| 9 | Secondly it had demonstrated that the clergy were well nigh powerless against royal tax demands : if they would not make a grant , the king could outlaw them and raise the money by fines , or he could simply seize their temporalities . |
| 10 | But still — within the house , in open view , Meg might have murdered Rubberneck — they would not make a move . |
| 11 | The police would go through the motions , but they would n't make a meal of it . |
| 12 | Neither thought they would ever make a living from ice hockey . |
| 13 | He would never make a mistake about something like that . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And Mark — he would never make a priest . |
| 16 | ‘ The thing is , there 's so little time in between tournaments and already I spend so little time in Bruhl and in Boca Raton , and it would n't make a lot of sense . |
| 17 | I found this sweet little man who fixed up a non-reflex 35 for me slowed down the motor wind so it would n't make a sound fixed in a timer to take a shot every thirty seconds . |
| 18 | But it would still make a bomb that could flatten much of a city and drench the place with fall-out . |