Example sentences of "they could make [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thought they could make fun of a country girl , but my answer took them by surprise . |
| 2 | Their own earnings were fabulous and they could make money for their followers as well . |
| 3 | Companies responsible for its prospects have gone out of business seven times , discovering that while they could make money on the big promotions , the building and park were too expensive to run on a tickover basis ( nowadays the park alone costs £650,000 a year to maintain ) , and in an earlier era of six-day working weeks , the public had not much leisure time to spend there anyway . |
| 4 | This is closely linked to their passivity : it does not occur to them that they could make changes in their world . |
| 5 | Aberconwy Borough Council said the damage figure passed the point at which they could make requests for financial help to the Government . |
| 6 | With Motif at large in the Sun community , IBM and DEC are confident they could make inroads into the Sun installed base swapping out Sun machines for their own . |
| 7 | whereas he 's got ta he says just one round here so they could make decisions for you . |
| 8 | I 'm sure they could make room for another . ’ |
| 9 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 10 | He also warned : ‘ I prefer it not to be carried because the Conservatives , who are desperately clinging at straws because of the popularity of our policy , against the irrelevance of theirs , would do what they could to make mischief about it . ’ |