Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he or she undertakes to make a part of his or her income over to a charity for four years or more , the tax the individual pays on that income is given by the tax authorities to the charity concerned . |
| 2 | She broke off , unaccountably reluctant to tell them the rest , although she had made no secret of it in London . |
| 3 | Although she had made the best of resolutions not to be drawn into talking about her own times , she found it hard to resist Johnny 's persistent questioning . |
| 4 | Now , for a second great war , she found herself in a country which was not her own ; although she had made a few friends , it was not at all like living among her own people . |
| 5 | This was an ordeal which , like all others , would eventually end and although she had made up her mind to suffer it , nothing obliged her to accord it so much as one shred of thought ; or memory . |
| 6 | Although she had made some photocopies to study later , it was possible that Adam might be able to clear the matter up in a few moments . |
| 7 | ‘ Hush , ’ he whispered against her hair , although she had made no sound . |
| 8 | Though Between and Thru exhibit striking parallels with the emergent thinking in the late 1960s and early 1970s about the relation of women to language , it was not until nearly fifteen years later that she began to make use of gender-specific arguments in her critical writings . |
| 9 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
| 10 | Rachel relaxed , grateful , and gave her usual careful consideration to the matters before the meeting ; calmly ploughing through the minutiae and bureaucratic red tape of museum management , making the sort of useful contributions that she had made at any such meeting in the last twenty years . |
| 11 | It did not stop her knowing that she had made an idiot of herself and upset Harriet Shakespeare , who had enough trouble without that . |
| 12 | Down on the steps , Marie had decided that she had made a mistake . |
| 13 | In front of the fire she kept a dark tab rug that she had made herself from scraps of different-coloured material . |
| 14 | She was beginning to feel that she had made a mistake , and allowed herself to be exploited . |
| 15 | She realised from the quizzical looks that met this further information that she had made matters worse rather than better . |
| 16 | She told us that she had made several visits to the London Zoo and so was familiar with the appearance of modern apes . |
| 17 | I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too . |
| 18 | Her name and her address ; and a couple of visits , dates and times that she had made . |
| 19 | The horse made another noise , more a groan than a grunt this time , and , as his stride faltered , Kelly knew that she had made a serious mistake . |
| 20 | She was the most efficient secretary he had ever had and it irked him that she had made it clear that , if and when he moved , she would wish to stay at Larksoken . |
| 21 | Davidson , who had previously been married for a total of less than five years to three different wives , said after falling for Tracie that she had made a new man of him . |
| 22 | Knowing in his heart , while he telephoned the night porter at their London flat , and went the round of their friends , that she had made her choice . |
| 23 | She knew that she had made a fatal mistake . |
| 24 | And the teacher , too , might have made the same terrible mistake that she had made back in Teheran all those years before . |
| 25 | She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning . |
| 26 | She knew that she had made an impression on Nicky , simply by the way he had looked at her when he and his mother had said goodbye . |
| 27 | But Albert was so sure that she had made a Will … |
| 28 | She tore across the dealing room , then up three flights of stairs , screaming that she had closed Sir Willie , and that she had made several thousand pounds in that one day . |
| 29 | As women do , she probably knew that she had made an impression on him on the two or three occasions they had met at Muthaiga . |
| 30 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |