Example sentences of "they could make [noun sg] " 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 | And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen . |
| 3 | Their own earnings were fabulous and they could make money for their followers as well . |
| 4 | John — fit and well — said : ‘ The clinic 's doctors just tried to fool me I was dying so they could make money . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Predictably , they took the parts from which they could make money . |
| 7 | She longed to wake him so that they could make love again but did not dare to because , for all the intimacy of the previous hours , Constance knew that she was lying next to a virtual stranger . |
| 8 | If they were married , they could make love as often as they pleased . |
| 9 | They could make love . |
| 10 | They could make love here and nobody would ever know . |
| 11 | There is clearly force in this ‘ equal treatment ’ argument , which was later deployed in defence of the Schlunk decision by the United States delegation at a Special Commission of the Hague Conference held in April 1989 ; but as between the United Sates and the German Federal Republic it is German plaintiffs who emerge at a disadvantage , for German law has no doctrine similar to that of involuntary agency of which they could make use . |
| 12 | I 'm sure they could make room for another . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |