Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Neither do I , ’ he said gently , ‘ but I ca n't make a living tipping horses . ’ |
| 2 | A similar effect of , on the one hand , challenging the reader to take up an alert and interpretative role , and , on the other , gratuitously creating an amorphous but strong atmosphere peculiar to the fabliau through the text , is achieved by extensive use of the homonyms vit and con , and com-/con- as a common suffix in the Romance languages : ( I can not make a long tale : in this castle there was a count and with him the countess , his wife , who was a very beautiful and worthy woman ; and there were [ or she had ] more than thirty knights . |
| 3 | If things get too complicated , he told himself , not for the first time in the last few months , I can always make a run for it . |
| 4 | I can still make a flight back to Blighty which will connect with the last plane to Inverness . |
| 5 | It was a coup d'etat. ’ -Margaret Thatcher ‘ As for the leaders of the former Alliance parties , I will say no more than this : they have never learned what every woman knows — that you ca n't make a souffle rise twice . ’ |
| 6 | No matter whether it 's the ‘ Yes ’ bank , the action bank , the thoroughbred bank , the listening bank , or the bank to which all points , you ca n't make a friend of your bank manager unless you 've got loadsamoney . |
| 7 | You ca n't make a suggestion like that when someone 's as upset as this . |
| 8 | ‘ You ca n't make a living from sitting on your fanny and reading story-books . |
| 9 | The first point is that you ca n't make a meaningful choice of subjects without adequate information . |
| 10 | I think I would simply say that er if you feel you can make a choice , so be it , if you feel you ca n't make a choice I would implore you to take up some wording similar to the wording I 've suggested , which seeks to commit the district authorities to a to a new settlement within within Greater York . |
| 11 | If you ca n't make a straightforward decision you 'd be wise to put things off and wait until certain issues settle themselves . |
| 12 | It 's not a stew without veg , you ca n't make a stew without |
| 13 | On Thursday night you ca n't make a phone call , if you ca n't |
| 14 | If you have seen a mixture of iron and sulphur and the lumps of sulphur did n't have a shiny polished surfaces that belong to iron and you ca n't make a mirror out of non-metal . |
| 15 | Well you ca n't make a wedding cake without glace cherries . |
| 16 | You ca n't make an individual schedule appear which includes both the tasks the person is responsible for and the ones he or she is merely involved in . |
| 17 | At dinner that night we were discussing the whole affair and I said : " Oh well , you ca n't make an omelette without breaking some eggs , " which led to the classic retort from Ed Prior , my engineer : " Yes , but you did n't have to break the whisk ! " |
| 18 | As for victims , you ca n't make an omelette without cracking eggs . |
| 19 | I think the old point is anyway you ca n't make an omelette without breaking eggs . |
| 20 | So and she ca I do n't know whether you noticed or she ca n't make a cup of coffee without spilling it . |
| 21 | She ca n't make a commitment . |
| 22 | She ca n't make a living with it . |
| 23 | This may be because by now she is find the spelling test hard and is getting anxious ; or it may be because she can not make an accurate guess at the way new words are pronounced . |
| 24 | A record-player will translate information carried as undulations in a groove into sound , but not back again : you can not make a record by shouting at the loudspeaker of a record-player . |
| 25 | In this respect , living systems differ from non-living ones : you can not make a visible change in the form or behaviour of a wave in the sea by moving one molecule , or even a million molecules . |
| 26 | Or perhaps you 've found that you can not make a square turn to the right like those you find so easy to the left . |
| 27 | Without such a juxtaposition , you can not make a rational assessment of twentieth century design . |
| 28 | If that happens you can not make a will . |
| 29 | There is another rule , equally old and equally well-established — that you can not make a mere witness a party in order to get discovery from him ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ You can not make a habit of coming here . ’ |