Example sentences of "but [pron] make the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I made the snowball into ice first . |
| 2 | I loved the programme and the people but I made the decision to leave at the right point , before I could grow bored . ’ |
| 3 | Lili said that of course I must , but I made the error of looking at my mother for approval , found none and saw only displeasure at my childish crudity . |
| 4 | I did n't expect her to stay so long , but I made the offer and I have to stick with it . |
| 5 | The stone steps were narrow , and she did n't like stone steps , they were greasy when wet , but she made the bottom of them and inserted the key in the lock . |
| 6 | But who makes the choices , establishes the criteria and decides the priorities ? |
| 7 | Erm the servants did their cooking , but we made the marmalade and things , the extra |
| 8 | He 's not the only one — but he made the mistake of telling it to the Washington Post . |
| 9 | THOMAS SHADWELL was a successful dramatist in his own day , but he made the mistake of picking a quarrel with John Dryden . |
| 10 | Darwin was not the first to marvel but he made the notion of such adaptedness scientifically respectable by providing an explanation of how it might have come about . |
| 11 | But he made the point there were no signs that Sandy had struggled for her life , that she must have trusted her murderer . |
| 12 | But he made the studio ( which he used for twenty years ) simple and plain , matching a portrait style in which , in his own words , ‘ character rather than flattery was the dominant note . ’ |
| 13 | But he made the recommendation with a proviso . |
| 14 | But he made the effort to sound firm and reassuring as he spoke up again to quell any panic among the assembled youngsters . |
| 15 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 16 | But it made the patients very sick , and the remissions did not last . |
| 17 | But it made the mystery even deeper . |
| 18 | But it made the situation no easier because Churchill distrusted Temple as a sort of Socialist and as too outspoken a politician . |
| 19 | Nothing she 'd care to trust too far , but it made the atmosphere a lot easier than the last time she 'd been in here with the door closed . |
| 20 | The former method requires some effort , but it makes the case more realistic when it comes to cross-examination , and it enables the preliminary proceedings , including the interviewing of witnesses and briefing of counsel , to be done by student ‘ solicitors . ’ |
| 21 | Er so er let's say that the ten percent rate applies , er mind you ten percent is a long way from where we are now , but it makes the figures easy to look at , so er let's say that he 's getting ten percent gross on his return on a building society , he 'd actually get seven and a half percent net , er so on his ten thousand he 's going to earn seven fifty . |
| 22 | Of course this is not strictly true , but it makes the explanation simpler , and after all it does n't really make any difference to the cost whether you pay for your bulb or tyre when it fails or at the next service . |
| 23 | India 's economic failure is not the cause of the hatred between its religions , but it makes the hatreds worse . |
| 24 | This may be a little exaggerated , but it makes the point quite nicely that the commodity position of British trade recovered strikingly well after 1945 — essential imports could readily be paid for by exports plus the American loan remarkably quickly after the war 's end . |
| 25 | Given the size of the motion-picture audience it was inevitable that political authorities would become involved in some regulation of the industry even if it was only to be a question of safety and fire regulations , but what made the movies even more into a public issue was that they became a mass activity precisely at the moment when political parties and social agencies were more concerned than ever before with how the masses could be accommodated within cities . |
| 26 | But what made the community charge so unpopular was its size and certain iniquities . |
| 27 | Changes in the entry of calcium ions , or the phosphorylation of membrane constituents , or the activation of NMDA receptors , all seem plausible ways of bringing about a temporary change in the electrical properties of a cell , but what makes the change persist — what puts the L into LTP — should be the important question , if LTP is really to serve as a model for long-term memory . |
| 28 | But what makes the RNLI extra special is that it appeals to all ages . |