Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I made a habit of sending Timmy upstairs ahead of me when it 's time to go to bed . |
| 2 | In autumn 1903 she made a walking tour through France with Dorelia McNeill , later Augustus John 's companion . |
| 3 | In 1697 she made a tour of the north and of Kent and in the following year she made her ‘ Great Journey to Newcastle and to Cornwall ’ . |
| 4 | Consequently , early in 1985 we made a number of visits to schools in order to interview non-respondents and to request them to fill in the questionnaire orally . |
| 5 | ‘ They say every man has his double and it is conceivable they made a mistake , ’ he said . |
| 6 | In 1789–90 he made a book of plans of the Earl of Eglinton 's estates in Ayrshire , one of the treasures of the Scottish Record Office . |
| 7 | In 1991 they made an operating profit of $17m on revenues of $1.54 billion . |
| 8 | Joe was a bookbinder , a very highly skilled craftsman , so well thought of by his employers , Browns of the Canal , that when the business was sold to W.H. Smith 's in 1924 they made a condition that Joe should continue in his department until retirement . |
| 9 | On Sept. 5 in a television broadcast he called on the people of Egypt and Saudi Arabia to rise up and overthrow their governments ; on Sept. 10 he made an offer to supply oil free to Third-World countries . |
| 10 | In the Seventies she made a come-back and played to full houses at the Institute of Contemporary Arts , re-coloured and with some discreet censorship . |
| 11 | Whatever the conclusion or result of your check list — write it down — and make sure you make a note about anything you need to check up on later . |
| 12 | In 1962 she made an autumn visit to Greece . |
| 13 | When she saw he was awake she made a sound that was half a sob , and buried her head in his shoulder . |
| 14 | As the build-up to the pending general election got under way , the position of the leader of the Liberal Democrats , Paddy Ashdown , came under scrutiny when on Feb. 5 he made a statement acknowledging that some years earlier he had had a " brief relationship " with a woman ( identified as Patricia Sullivan , now known under the name Howard ) ; he stressed , however , that this " should have remained a private and personal matter of concern only to those involved " . |
| 15 | Alida lifted her head and Dorothea thought how unbecoming tears were , after childhood , how old and ugly and formless they made a face . |
| 16 | Oh it was glorious I made a note to myself actually , that I 'm only going to go out once a week for a proper shop , from a list , in the solar and the rest of the time I 'm going to go to the quite expensive little Robber 's Roe , round the corner from me . |
| 17 | ‘ First you make a mystery out of a fairly ordinary — although for you — tragic — event , and , believe me , I do sympathise with you over that … |
| 18 | In Chapter 1 we made a distinction between informal and formal methods of social control . |
| 19 | But first we make a stop at the east foot of the hills , a highly active area of slimy , bubbling sulphur pits . |
| 20 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 21 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 22 | In section 2.3.2 we made a distinction which is often made between the activities of banks or , more strictly , ‘ institutions comprising the monetary sector ’ and the activities of NBFIs . |
| 23 | In particular he made a study of natural history , especially of birds , with which he felt a strange affinity . |
| 24 | ‘ We did n't give it that name , but all the same it made a difference . |
| 25 | But at last she made an effort to pull herself together , and , dragging herself from the bed , she went to the wash-basin , where splashes of cold water to her eyes made her feel more normal . |
| 26 | In 1968 she made a speech in Westminster at the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the granting of votes to women . |
| 27 | In 1988 she made an offer to settle the tax liability , which was not accepted , and on 1 February 1991 the Inland Revenue Commissioners presented a bankruptcy petition which came before the registrar on 11 November 1991 . |
| 28 | When Thomas Hardy was given the freedom of the borough in 1910 he made a comment of particular interest to family historians : he said that ‘ of the shops as I first recollect them [ he was born in 1840 ] not a single owner remains ; only in two or three instances does even the name remain … |
| 29 | From this position Morris was soon able both to develop a practice of his own and to secure the fruits of public office : as early as 1727 he was referred to in print as ‘ the noted architect Mr. Morris ’ , and in 1731–2 he made a visit to Italy . |
| 30 | IF THE recent revelations concerning Whips ' activities are true it makes a nonsense of democracy . |