Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] make [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You only have to look back over what 's er happened over the last few years in terms of for example O S Two , Microsoft Windows , a variety of Unix , and you 'll see that technologies will come along and however sound a decision you make at one point in time the market circumstances and potentially mean that what was right for you then not the right . |
| 2 | In fact , my recent painting of Paddington Station was inspired by a sketch I made in 1953 when I was still a student . |
| 3 | She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge . |
| 4 | He said , ‘ I want to talk about a donation you made to Sinn Fein . |
| 5 | Our survey of Japanese finance ( ‘ Downbeat ’ , December 8th ) included a table purporting to show Japanese banks ' BIS capital-adequacy ratios as at September 1990 , attributed to James Capel and from a study it made in October 1990 . |
| 6 | Above : A Jaffna schoolboy shows a drawing he made of helicopters strafing his home town . |
| 7 | Oh , by the way , ’ Luke said , locking the door behind them , ‘ Bob Tilling in Accounts just happened to mention the other day that you had settled an invoice for a piece we made for a client in Sherwood Forest . ’ |
| 8 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 9 | So however a big a mess you make of things however big a mess you make of things everything is usually retrievable . |
| 10 | So however a big a mess you make of things however big a mess you make of things everything is usually retrievable . |
| 11 | Students are more than likely having to cope , perhaps for the first time in their lives , with a threateningly high level of conspicuous and recurrent failure , and the way they cope with anxiety will play a large part in determining what kind of a fist they make of it . |
| 12 | One result of that has been a proposal I made in 1983 with Jim Hartle of the University of California at Santa Barbara : that both time and space are finite in extent , but they do n't have any boundary or edge . |
| 13 | ‘ What a fool you made of me , Sarah Byrne . |
| 14 | Of the other two paintings , one is a picture of a friend , a girl who was also a student , posing in the same life-room , and the other , a portrait I made of a fellow student and good friend of mine from the Royal Academy , James Tower , who became a noted ceramicist . |
| 15 | Er Ma'am I think it would be helpful to pick up a point you made in relation to the R Royal Society of Birds , Royal Soci R S P B. |
| 16 | What a difference it made to his whole face . |
| 17 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 18 | The contrast between the two kings was ruefully noted by Louis himself in a remark he made to Walter Map : |
| 19 | His concern for the Dunsden poor and the compassion of his war poetry are at odds with a remark he made to his mother at the outbreak of hostilities . |
| 20 | Defeated election candidate Paul Rayner has honoured a pledge he made during the campaign to members of Middlesbrough 's Muslim community by writing to the new Home Secretary with details of long delays experienced by would-be immigrants . |
| 21 | ‘ This is in reply to a request we made of Greek Intelligence for as exhaustive a list as they could supply of all places where Andropulos is known either to do business or have contacts . |
| 22 | I would n't want readers to think I 've gone soft on freedom to roam following a comment I made in July 's Scottish News . |
| 23 | I do think the discussion so far and the contribution from Mr and Mr is unfairly er at this stage erm prejudicing a proper assessment of er er er a for a new settlement all the way round Greater York including the Southwest and I return to a comment I made before the break , that dualling for example of the outer bypass of the York ring road which is programmed and is , will dramatically change may well dramatically change the perception erm erm of people to the to the west of the Greater York area in respect of the area to the north east . |
| 24 | He was saved from sinking even lower by the balm of a journey he made in an open cart to Zweeloo with his landlord , who had to go to the market in Assen . |
| 25 | TOP model Imam , above , weeps as US senators and reporters in Washington watch a documentary she made of her hunger-torn homeland , Somalia . |
| 26 | ‘ What a pigsty they made of it ! |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not such an outsider that I ca n't see what a mistake you made with those steps — ‘ |
| 28 | What a mistake she made in marrying him ! ’ |
| 29 | The American conductor John Canarina also pointed out that in a performance he attended at Tanglewood in 1965 and in a recording he made with the Chicago Symphony , Munch made two cuts between figs. 110 and 128 ( in the Durand score ) . |
| 30 | He was one of the earliest arrivals at Augusta , playing his first practice round on Saturday , which was a direct contradiction of a statement he made to the Augusta Chronical when he said he tried to treat the Masters like ‘ any other tournament ’ . |