Example sentences of "make a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The campus was fenny-flat , laid out like a kind of chess-board , redeemed by an imaginative water-gardener who had made a maze of channels and pools , randomly flowing across and around the rectangular grid . |
| 2 | In all four schools , participation in the project had made a range of departments and a number of individual teachers look closely at their existing library resources for the purposes of stock editing and selection . |
| 3 | The Times caressed us with recondite information : no Pakistani batsman had made a century at Headingley ; Pakistan bowled their 100th no-ball in the series ( Wasim Akram , not out 63 ) . |
| 4 | It noted that Ealing Council , which , like Hounslow , is Labour-controlled , had made a grant of £50,000 , and listed a number of events : ‘ April 1986 , organised a meeting at Southall Town Hall on the seventh anniversary of Blair Peach 's death , called for full inquiry … |
| 5 | 7–10–1874 The trustees of the late James Bannatyne had made a grant of £100 to assist in employing a Catechist and the money was lodged with the Greenock Board of Police at 4% interest , to be drawn as required . |
| 6 | In addition to the oratory provided by Havelock Wilson , the NAS&FU also made a contribution of £pound100 to strike funds and encouraged various branches of the Seamen 's Union throughout Australia to donate over £pound1,000 . |
| 7 | The solution is not to abolish honorary degrees for this would remove the one means in the gift of the University of recognising a debt to a person who has made a contribution of time and service to the well being of the University . |
| 8 | The provision of a cycle track system in some towns also made a contribution to safety ’ |
| 9 | I 'm not really computer literate , I 've probably made a botch of things , and will most certainly use incorrect terminology ; please forgive ! |
| 10 | And he drew it out actually , remember he 's only six , seven years old and what he 'd done was to put this spring loaded hanger into the back of the tube and he 'd made a kind of trigger with a little , little plastic peg , and he said here 's your gun ! |
| 11 | A WOMAN told yesterday how her life is being made a misery by youths who know she is defenceless . |
| 12 | At last there 's hope for the many hundreds of children whose lives are made a misery by birthmarks . |
| 13 | Other investigations have made a link between events and onset of physical disturbances such as an infarct , streptococcal infection , and gastrointestinal disorder ( see Craig and Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 14 | Since some critics have made a link between Cockrill and Peter Lanyon , it is appropriate that this exhibition tours to the Newlyn Art Gallery in June and will be seen at Exeter 's Spacex Gallery and at the Plymouth Art Centre . |
| 15 | Once he had made a crown of poppies for her hair and a daisy chain for her neck , and she had danced all the way home , feeling like a princess . |
| 16 | Mr. Flack 's own interest began in 1934 when he was in court for the libel case brought against the MGM film company who had made a film about Rasputin . |
| 17 | We did Decadence in London and America together — and we 've made a film for Channel 4 television . |
| 18 | Henreid had made a film in Austria five years earlier on the same subject , and in Basil Bartlett 's play he brought considerable urbanity to the role of Prince Louis of Battenberg , opposite Leo Genn 's Prince of Wales . |
| 19 | He had not for one minute , he said , imagined this could happen and they had even planned to move to Mexico where he was in the process of renovating a house for them ; the bedrooms were complete and he had made a nursery for Michelle 's daughter , China , never to be occupied . |
| 20 | Her life is over-emphasized — ‘ blooming ’ , her freshness — ‘ dew ’ , and her exceeding fairness ; the ‘ fountain' , clearly made a symbol of life in the poem of that title , ‘ trips ’ 'from its rocky cave' — possibly in association with ‘ basket ’ a reference to the return of Proserpine from the underworld , combining the idea of spring and the return of a daughter . |
| 21 | One of the organisations has made a pledge of £25,000 to the appeal . |
| 22 | The business has even made a bit of money this year . |
| 23 | It has n't made a bit of difference |
| 24 | Cos I think he would have made a bit of difference up front there wi er er cos they would have the defence |
| 25 | Barbara Coleman said : ‘ I 've made a pot of coffee . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've just made a pot of tea . ’ |
| 27 | After he had made a pot of tea they sat near the range and surveyed each other . |
| 28 | Sarah had made a pot of tea and left them together in the overcrowded room . |
| 29 | certainly made a profit for Intercity out of it with |
| 30 | By 1990 turnover had increased to £150,000 and they had made a profit of £32,000 . |