Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] make the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Italian government , concerned that the better things should remain in Italy , were delighted to hear that many of them only made the journey by canal from the Cannareggio to the piano nobile of the Palazzo Malpiero .
2 But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true .
3 Can I just make the point that we are due to pay the next erm , annual subscription for this guarantee .
4 Can I just make the point of clarification in what said there , that as far as staffing additional works spread through for example we are assuming that staff costs are within the figures you are looking at and the the work that was referring to was was after you made your decision to will need to take some element of that cost into the start of the budget there is no staff figures that would occur after you 've formalised this budget we are not aware of so there there will be .
5 I once made the mistake you 're thinking of making and I 've never got over it .
6 I always make the statement at the time — as I did last Thursday — based on the information available to me and on the right process for the House for the following week .
7 I was really , really tired , I was dead tired and , but I always make the tea .
8 I always make the tea .
9 I also made the point of linking the ideas of wilderness and beauty , which you lose if the place is covered in telephones and railways .
10 I also make the rule that , before a person has had a turn , they sit with their legs crossed and afterwards place them out in front .
11 Er , the I I also make the point , that er , my understanding is having now talked to a number of the other C A B's , that in fact they were looking to Thamesdown money advice centre because this money was actually to replace funds that previously had been er , available through the Allied Dunbar sponsorship scheme , and which has , which I gather was withdrawn er , at very short notice , and they were looking to Thamesdown to er provide that support and resource as a county resource , and I I therefore felt that it was right to bring it forward .
12 I simply make the observation that ten miles is a rather arbitrary figure .
13 I made a lot of mistakes as any young person does , but I never made the mistake of thinking I knew it all as far as the Africans were concerned . "
14 I never made the running , ’ he added ruefully .
15 That way , you only make the effort to prepare and cook the meal once , and for the other three meals you just pull something out of the freezer and heat it up .
16 Why had she not made the connection and what , in any case , was the connection ?
17 Two and one and two and one and , now there you just make the crotchet a bit too short , erm , try until you get it into your system , which you will , just counting that , in , inside yourself .
18 You just made the corn .
19 And you know I , I actually had phrases like bra burning thrown at me and erm I I said that feminism to me is about having the same opportunities as men and I put few of the phrases er er you know along those lines and so everybody round the table said well yes I believe in that too , I said well then you 're feminists and so it 's about valuing or devaluing words as well and you know you just made the point about changing words , but how far do we go with this ?
20 They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward .
21 All the outfits were by Marianne and she also made the bride 's shoes and decorated the bridesmaids ' ballet pumps .
22 In fact , it will buy 10 per cent less or only 90 per cent of what it would have when you originally made the money available to your debtor .
23 If you do , you simply make the burn fry .
24 You then make the coin return by saying to the child that you think it is coming back in her ear .
25 The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university .
26 This will now tell you where to make the hole without attempting to drill through a joist .
27 Beneath that cool , aloof manner of hers , Gay was the most understanding person on earth , and she never made the mistake of saying too much .
28 This is a separate argument from whether you actually made the statement or not , or whether it was bullied out of you like in the case .
29 misrepresenting the situation , and by so doing you scare people unnecessarily and you actually make the situation worse .
30 For example , we gave some a picture showing some batteries and a light bulb and asked them to show how they would connect them up to make the light bulb glow .
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