Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [modal v] [adv] make [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you 're feeling relaxed and comfortable and good because you 're telling me , you know , what a great tennis player I am and I really enjoy it , you 've just given me a couple of names that I 'll either make a note of or I 'll say that 's interesting cos I actually deal with Joe on a business relationship anyway erm maybe we could meet some other people from the tennis club , self employed people , professional people such as yourself , who might be interested in looking at financial planning but today I 'm more interested in talking about you Bill , erm we 'll come back to them a bit later if I may so let's press on . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed . |
| 3 | ‘ I would not like to have the task of telling her that she would never make a crime reporter ! ’ |
| 4 | It may sound priggish , but she says it 's unwise to go against one 's nature , its fundamental requirements , she knew that she could only make a go of it , a real go — and that was what she wanted — with some very extraordinary kind of man , and she had n't met him yet . |
| 5 | People root for pianists as though they were football teams , hoping that one will really make the most of the commissioned piece , trying to nobble the judges at parties to announce that someone 's interpretation of Brahms has changed their hearts and souls . |
| 6 | Nothing wrong with that , of course , but let's not pretend that one can really make a decent living just by turning wood . |
| 7 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 8 | I drank to the toast , though I was not at all sure that we would actually make the crossing in Wavebreaker . |
| 9 | Well he 's gone on seven days of the week complaining about so and so we 'll just narrow that down to one article about his his complaint that they may just make a little note he 's complained seven times about this ! |
| 10 | Wills were normally made shortly before death , as many a shaky signature can testify ; some people left it so late that they could only make an oral statement ( or nuncupative will ) , which was written down and sworn to by witnesses . |
| 11 | And of course all that is a play-off against you know keeping that franchisee er involved and keeping them feeling that they can still make a profit . |
| 12 | It has just told me that the trial has proved successful and that it will shortly make the address service available nationwide . |
| 13 | Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd warns that it will likely make an unconsolidated or parent company current loss of $335m for the year to March 31 ; it had previously seen a loss of $215m and reported an $11m profit last year ; it expects a group current loss of $344m for the year . |
| 14 | They used to say that he could almost make a horse fly . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sure that he 'd never make the same mistake again . |