Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed . |
| 2 | Chairman I I wonder whether I could just make a sort of general statement from the department 's view before we go on to a particular issue if I may . |
| 3 | If I could just make a point about affordable housing chairman , of course the department recognizes that there is a problem of affordable housing as evidenced by minister 's statements but the view of my policy colleagues in headquarters is that this is most appropriately addresses in district wide plans and not necessarily at structure plan level . |
| 4 | It may sound priggish , but she says it 's unwise to go against one 's nature , its fundamental requirements , she knew that she could only make a go of it , a real go — and that was what she wanted — with some very extraordinary kind of man , and she had n't met him yet . |
| 5 | And you could easily make a mistake with the work , you get all worked up . |
| 6 | I remember housing studies , for example , was one of the crunch points as to whether you could actually make a degree out of something of that kind . |
| 7 | I was just about to say I expect you could really make a mess if you tried and then I realized I was covered in and I 'd better shut up . |
| 8 | You could always make a splash at your local pool . |
| 9 | ‘ We could always make a start , ’ Southgate quipped . |
| 10 | We could therefore make a rule that ‘ melodies should begin with two sentences , each comprising two phrases etc. ’ , but we must refrain from doing so . |
| 11 | So we could perhaps make a case for offering curatorial protection to artefactual software by regarding it as part of the contextual and functional extension of hardware without which technical history would be incomplete . |
| 12 | Many of them go on to wonder if they could ever make a marriage . |
| 13 | They ca n't consider everybody or they could never make a decision . |
| 14 | They used to say that he could almost make a horse fly . ’ |