Example sentences of "[pron] make this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Notices attached to them make this plain . |
2 | Now , the final point I want to make in this little section , and I think Liz is going to help me make this point , and that is that one of your problems , which is not a big problem compared with some organizations , is you 've got to take what you 're doing , and repackage it in such way that it is of interest to ordinary people . |
3 | But when and how did I make this escape ? |
4 | However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run . |
5 | ‘ Then last night I made this promise to him . |
6 | And then I , and I made this bit of a faux pas , I says , oh you must have got a very good rate , cos I knew she 'd been retired years and years , you see . |
7 | I made this bed , and I 've got to lie on it . ’ |
8 | I made this ascent on a lowering afternoon that turned thundery , and I stood only momentarily I will admit on the bridge , as the storms brewed noisily up in the mountains all around and the lightning began . |
9 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
10 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
11 | Facing page : I made this bow shape from a length of velvet ribbon before fixing it to the wall and the back of the oval frame . |
12 | I made this device four years ago , and I now have no problems with herons or cats . |
13 | ‘ When first I made this World right fair , |
14 | ‘ I made this arrangement with Señor Parnham . |
15 | Ye yes it it does , and I think I made this point in erm in my evidence that it lies at the extreme erm southeastern corner of the paddock erm and if if , This is making an assumption . |
16 | Erm so if we gained it would be at the expense of Northallerton erm and when I , I made this point , well I did n't make this point I , I made the point about York being under-resourced because |
17 | Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland . |
18 | So I think I made this point before that the people who are right at the top of politics are the ones who are very good at flattery , duplicity , manipulation and so on and these , are these really the qualities we want in our government ? |
19 | I remember making this point a couple of years ago , yeah I made this point last year and I showed these pictures , I spent about twenty minutes on it , the following week I was , I was libelously accused and it was a libel , it was a serious libel erm er that I , that I said that females always had to submit erm I was very angry about that . |
20 | ‘ Nothing came of the enquiries I made this morning . |
21 | I mentioned the reduction in unemployment that has taken place in Holyhead , and , while the decrease has not been as good there as in some other areas , the announcements that I made this morning gave a priority to Holyhead . |
22 | Naturally , when I made this suggestion to St John and his sisters , they protested strongly , and it was with great difficulty that I finally managed to convince them of my firm intention to carry out this plan . |
23 | Yes , I make this noise kind of thing in my throat and I say , ‘ I 'm just ready . ’ |
24 | Now I believe that the time has come for us to think again about the theological side , the theological er and I make this proposal consider the feasibility of a theological examination anti- semitism and the convenor is ready to accept it Thank you sir . |
25 | In conclusion , I make this plea to countries such as Germany — a country for which I have the highest regard : they should be cautious about promising recognition for Croatia and Slovenia by any precise date , and about breaking ranks within the European Community . |
26 | I make this plea to the Base Commander to keep his aircraft from flying until we know the results of a thorough investigation . |
27 | Sub-paragraph 13 of paragraph 12 provided that all written statements made under caution should be in accordance with Annex D , paragraph 2 of which provided that where a person wished to write his own statement , he should be asked to write out and sign before so doing : ‘ I make this statement of my own free will . |
28 | I think that the hon. Gentleman will know what I mean when I say that in the context of coming towards the end of a particular available time , whether it is the time for talks or the time for a general election , there is reluctance among certain parties — and I make this remark generally — to turn their cards face upwards if there is any danger that other people will not have turned their cards face upwards by the time the whistle blows . |
29 | The reason I make this point is that while a retired architect may be covered by the PI policy of the firm he has left , that cover will only extend to the work he was involved with while a member of that practice . |
30 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |