Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | For my part I wish to make it plain that I do not base my judgment on any reservation as to the correctness of the law long ago enunciated in Stilk v. Myrick . |
| 2 | ‘ It does n't say anywhere in my contract I have to make them feel good , too . ’ |
| 3 | I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea . |
| 4 | In order to develop my theme I need to make three important assumptions . |
| 5 | One retired Somerset man told a visiting kinsman , ‘ You are likely to have but a short feast here , but I pray you if you have not good cheer blame my sonne John Webb and not me , for of my troth I have made him master of all . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Maybe , if the game was against Australia or New Zealand Alan Tait would have been preferred , but Mal Reilly is building for the future and now I have my chance I intend to make the most of it . ’ |
| 7 | in my book we have to make a bit like that look . |
| 8 | In my garden it has made a swift transition from weed to wild flower to flower . |
| 9 | As yet undecided in which direction she wishes to make her future career , Emma is now studying for her Grade VIII piano exam — the highest level in the series . |
| 10 | Before their marriage he had made quite a hobby of photography . |
| 11 | Since its inception it has made loans totalling over $ 140 billion to 110 countries . |
| 12 | He had been a good friend to her and when she walked out on her parents she had made straight for the bar , looking for him . |
| 13 | ‘ Shearson has the same option , but with its bond you have to make the decisions yourself , ’ says Richard Spencer of financial adviser Brooks MacDonald Gayer . |
| 14 | At the height of their affair they 'd made love from dusk to dawn on several occasions ; toying and teasing , stopping to bathe so they 'd have the bliss of working up a second sweat . |
| 15 | The rate of weight loss will be influenced not only by the quantity you eat , in terms of calories , but also by which foods you choose to make up that calorie intake . |
| 16 | By her coarseness she sought to make things easier for him — she committed herself to the relationship , to this way of life , which , God knew , was n't much fun for her . |
| 17 | Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that . |
| 18 | For some reason the ‘ Poet-Public-Faith ’ article did not get used ; but meanwhile Collingwood , whose acquaintance I had made , had received the advancement he amply deserved , and I wanted to write in The Criterion about his first lecture as Professor . |
| 19 | But here , walking away down Park Avenue , was a man in whose power it lay to make whole all broken things ; even Pie 's wounded spirit . |
| 20 | Or , again , A has a purely legal claim against B ; but in order to prove his case he wants to make B disclose facts or documents which support A's claims . |
| 21 | Bankruptcy sharply lowered Hooley 's social position , but made less difference to his lifestyle , not least because before his crash he had made over to his wife both Papworth and Risley Hall and their contents . |
| 22 | For his funeral he had made a list of people he wanted invited ( they did not include any Japanese ) , the lessons he wanted read , the hymns he wanted sung . |
| 23 | Like his predecessors he failed to make any headway . |
| 24 | In the early part of his career he had made a number of smaller , better films such as The Stripper ( 1963 ) and The Best Man ( 1964 ) , before embarking on bigger and more portentous projects such as The War Lord ( 1965 ) and The Planet of the Apes ( 1967 ) , both with Charlton Heston baring his teeth and chest ; Patton ( 1969 ) , an ambiguous biopic about a modern war lord ( for which he won Best Director Oscar ) ; and Nicholas and Alexandra ( 1971 ) , a tedious and simplistic Tsar-trek . |
| 25 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what response he has made to the complaints he has received about measurements relating to the head of a pint of beer in the current year . |
| 26 | ‘ You see what progress they have made ! |
| 27 | I am meeting the manufacturers again this Wednesday , and I shall ask what progress they have made . |
| 28 | We are prepared to wait until around now like , let Christmas pass and we see what progress we have made , before absolutely finalising both . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress he has made in making available a pool of British-registered merchant ships for emergency defence use . |
| 30 | To ask the Attorney-General what progress he has made in identifying the total cost of the ’ Spycatcher ’ litigation . |