Example sentences of "make [adv] [det] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I made so many errors on my backhand trying to put too much into every shot , ’ she said .
2 I made so many mistakes about you .
3 There 's more folk working do n't make so much money on it .
4 They d do n't make so much fuss about it they distribute it and it gets on very satisfactory and people er , are very happy to receive these tickets .
5 Strange that something as solemn as death should make so little impression on her , while this trivial memory should pierce her through and through .
6 What is astonishing is not that educational technology makes such important use of audio-visual facilities , but that other movements within education in the last quarter of the twentieth century still make so little use of them .
7 The covenant was not just an important past event preserved by tradition but was the theme of what Gunnell calls ‘ a communal drama played out between Yahweh — He who will be there — and His people in time ’ , for in the words of Deuteronomy 5 : 3 , ‘ The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers , but with us , even us , who are all of us here alive this day . ’
8 The labour movement has made hardly any use of its own scholars and intellectuals , and gives them little support , so that many drift through higher education into roles that have little relationship with their origins and aspirations .
9 What can not be doubted is that Unionists , who had drawn level with the Liberals in 1910 , had made up more ground on them since .
10 ‘ I should never have made up those stories about her , I know , and I 'm sorry , darling .
11 I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills .
12 You could then make up some sentences in which AH could be compared with another long vowel , say AW , like this :
13 Er so as it happened this girl had got the material erm a wild silk cream and er Elizabeth made up this dress for her of course er Michael Caine 's daughter i is quite a busty girl , you know
14 We made up some ground on them last weekend and have to continue to do so .
15 Feed manufacturers make up this deficiency in their compound feeds for hard work and stud purposes , ie they ‘ balance ’ the mixture .
16 It made as little impression on me then as it does now . ’
17 Before the start , just let them know you are there and do n't let anyone crowd you ; try and make as much space for yourself as you can .
18 When they get drunk , have a binge , take on yet another new project or make even more plans for someone else 's recovery , they are not relapsing ; they are still suffering , still believing that they can compromise with the concept of powerlessness over mind-altering substances or behaviours .
19 So why is Brix making so little noise about her collaborators ' credentials ?
20 Fill the pool slowly with water , making good any gaps around it with soil or sand as it fills .
21 Mars charges your love-life with physical energy and passion but do n't spoil it by making too many demands on your partner .
22 Enthusiasts however , may have to be gently discouraged from making too many demands on your time and that when you ask a question you are not automatically expecting any action .
23 Neighbours complained that 90-year-old Gladys Mills was making too much noise at her flat in Weymouth , Dorset , where she has lived for 12 years .
24 Today is Pentium launch day when the likes of NCR Corp , Unisys Corp , Compaq Computer Corp and some two dozen other companies take the wraps off their first Pentium machines , but there is not much point in their making too much noise about it — Intel Corp expects to ship only about 10,000 Pentium chips to customers through June ; machines are generally expected to start at about $5,000 , but the Wall Street Journal hears that Advanced Logic Research Inc will announce a basic Pentium box for about $3,000 ; Compaq also plans an $18,000 Pentium version of its SystemPro server .
25 Making too much fuss of anything never brings luck . ’
26 He did n't like her energy and her enthusiasm ; she made too much noise in his life .
27 There 's a advertisement er for example in a recent issue of the Guardian , if my er Dutch was erm a little better I 'd quote it into the record but erm I 'm afraid it 's , it does n't make very much sense to me at the moment .
28 " So I made this little bite for you myself . "
29 ‘ You make too many assumptions about me . ’
30 they make too much fuss of him and they bring him back
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