Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Using the Amiga Five Hundred okay , er stripped it down , I sampled it and I actually made a song , a complete song , and it 's finished okay ? |
| 32 | I 'm a business and a factory , the work-force and the boss I 'm the brains and the belly and I never make a loss |
| 33 | I certainly did , yes , I certainly made a point that you must be careful that , erm , particularly the self-employed , that you do n't exceed the maximum allowable . |
| 34 | I recently made a tour of India which was arranged by ANZ Grindlays Bank to promote CIB qualifications to their staff . |
| 35 | Competing there were the cream of the country 's young athletic talent , some of them already making a name for themselves at international level . |
| 36 | And I 'll see you next , let me just make a note of this , on this form , a green form . |
| 37 | You only make a fool of yourself when you try and speak in public . |
| 38 | But I had had quite er if you want funding erm there 's only so many people out there , you better make a success of what you 're doing . |
| 39 | And then you just make a mess of what you 've already got . |
| 40 | Practice had made perfect : she hardly made a sound . |
| 41 | She hardly made a bump under the sheet , only her small shaven head and long neck were visible . |
| 42 | ‘ Why the hell must you always make a fuss ? |
| 43 | If you make a mistake with Word , right , then you can always undo it , right , if you ever make a mistake do n't panic cos you can always undo it but you only get the one chance if you go on working then you ca n't undo it . |
| 44 | Have you ever made a daisy chain ? |
| 45 | HAVE you ever made a wedding dress ? |
| 46 | and she willingly made a gift of it to her mother in sincere , if perhaps slightly exasperated affection . |
| 47 | She also made a plea for children in care saying that ‘ a child already damaged by previous experiences ’ should be cared for ‘ as we would our own children ’ . |
| 48 | She also made a point of keeping in touch with every woman who fostered a baby from the Foundling Hospital as the charity was so dear to her husband 's heart . |
| 49 | For the first time , Susan intuited that if she really made a point of it , she could get out of her Public Service . |
| 50 | She now made a living giving private lessons in English . |
| 51 | ‘ Every ward round she religiously made a note in her little book which wound drains to shorten . |
| 52 | Now could you get together and spend five or six minutes as a group , having a look at the other group 's presentation and could you please make a note |
| 53 | In them , she again described the work she did and the success she had achieved ; she gave details of her height , weight and false hair colour ; she even made a comment or two - as some of the men had in their letters — on her sexual preferences . |
| 54 | She then made a claim of unfair dismissal . |
| 55 | Is n't it time you either made a charge and got it over with , or you damned well got out of here , and Mister Bloody Hamilton with you ? ’ |
| 56 | ‘ That old woman did the business , word-perfect , she was perfect , the jury took one look at that little old lady and he was off the hook , she never made a slip . |
| 57 | ‘ And you never make a mistake or change a word . ’ |
| 58 | Have you never made a mistake ? |
| 59 | But perhaps your first mistake was to think that a shop could give you totally impartial advice — their prime concern was probably to make sure you actually made a purchase and from them rather than elsewhere . |
| 60 | The FOURTH stage will be the selling and — realising that the only sensible sale is one on which you actually make a profit — getting paid . |