Example sentences of "[pron] could make [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I had the other repeat to make the three parts , so then I could make harmonies by playing along with the tape . ’ |
| 2 | I could make love to you in any room in the house , ’ he grinned . |
| 3 | If she does , I could make cakes for it , could n't I , and jam — ’ |
| 4 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 5 | I offered to escort her so that she could make assignations with Rizzi . |
| 6 | Premack 's plastic tokens which Sarah , his only real success , was required to arrange in series on the magnetised slate , were designed to discover the extent to which she could make judgements about the qualities of objects ; for example , ‘ the apple is red and round ’ . |
| 7 | Stray images wandered into her unfocussed mind : the glossy black heads of seals breaking the sea 's surface , the castle with knights riding out — She could make pictures of the Lock in her head again ! |
| 8 | If not , she could make enquiries at one of the local mairies . |
| 9 | But it was the scientist alone who could make sense of the discoveries , and late eighteenth-century naturalists had already begun to puzzle over the bones of gigantic elephant-like creatures found both in America and in Europe . |
| 10 | Neighbour John Lavery said the newspaperman was a man ‘ who could make friends with anyone ’ . |
| 11 | Yes , you could make music on one but that would be sacrilegious considering all the other exciting possibilities that it has to offer : eg. killing fascists ( Woody Guthrie ) , saying sorry ( Billy Bragg ) , as a firelighter ( Jimi Hendrix ) , for clubbing amplifiers senseless ( Pete Townshend ) , for levelling stage floorboards ( Ritchie Blackmore ) , as a mini-TV stand ( Billy Gibbons ) , to stimulate groupies ( Steve Vai ) , to cream yourself ( Hendrix again , that infamous Tokai advert or even that sad figure in the current Trantec Systems advert ) , as a shop sign ( Original Flying Vee ) , as a cricket bat ( Ian Botham with the Staccato magnesium bass ) , as a baseball bat ( Steinberger XL ) , you could use one to kill her mama ( like Frank and Dweezil ) and , if you are still bored after all that , you could electrocute yourself with it through your dangerously hot-rodded stack . |
| 12 | ‘ If you could make contact with Bell , it might give us an in we 've never been able — ’ |
| 13 | Why graft your arse off for a full week to make £130 , when you could make £150 for one day 's shoplifting ? |
| 14 | Yeah you could make balls with newspaper if you wanted . |
| 15 | Erm I would , I think it would be very useful if you could make time in the next day or so , you do n't have to spend long on this you know , if you just spent sort of |
| 16 | Or you could make under-curtains in a lighter , toning or contrasting fabric to pull backwards and forwards while the original curtains remain stationary . |
| 17 | For example , you could make batches of meals from fresh food , then freeze them . |
| 18 | He tried to lighten his mood , grinning at her like a schoolboy , ‘ Apart from anything else we could make love at breakfast-time , lunch-time and tea-time . ’ |
| 19 | They thought they could make fun of a country girl , but my answer took them by surprise . |
| 20 | Their own earnings were fabulous and they could make money for their followers as well . |
| 21 | Companies responsible for its prospects have gone out of business seven times , discovering that while they could make money on the big promotions , the building and park were too expensive to run on a tickover basis ( nowadays the park alone costs £650,000 a year to maintain ) , and in an earlier era of six-day working weeks , the public had not much leisure time to spend there anyway . |
| 22 | This is closely linked to their passivity : it does not occur to them that they could make changes in their world . |
| 23 | Aberconwy Borough Council said the damage figure passed the point at which they could make requests for financial help to the Government . |
| 24 | With Motif at large in the Sun community , IBM and DEC are confident they could make inroads into the Sun installed base swapping out Sun machines for their own . |
| 25 | whereas he 's got ta he says just one round here so they could make decisions for you . |
| 26 | I 'm sure they could make room for another . ’ |
| 27 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 28 | Hitler did n't like Jews and it could make trouble for me . |
| 29 | If only he could make contact with a genuine practising artist he 'd be able to discuss all these things and get proper advice . |
| 30 | He could n't start on his plane because there were n't any helpful books and now Mr Crangle was probably going to catch the Bookman before he could make friends with him . |