Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | You wired them together to make a kind of pyramid . |
2 | And you 'd say , right , and you 'd go the , after the baby was born you , you 'd go back again to what we call the nur nursing , nursing up and you 'd want the bowl again for the baby and you 'd say wh where 's the bowl and they 'd say , oh well I think it 's downstairs , we used it yesterday to make a pudding in . |
3 | She told me not to make a fuss over such a small thing . |
4 | He showed her how to make a love-knot |
5 | A teacher showed us how to make a turkey , using two hands superimposed . |
6 | We smeared mud ( to simulate human excrement , which would infect wounds ) on sharpened wooden stakes which we buried in holes in the path covered up with leaves and brush , and Gibeau showed us how to make a mine out of a spring , some ball bearings and a walnut-sized lump of plastic explosive . |
7 | ‘ I thought I warned you not to make a habit of this , ’ a deep voice remarked gruffly , close to her ear , and she realised that the swaying sensation was that of Fen carrying her to her own bunk . |
8 | The bats just decided to smash me around the island , and for every bag of boundaries they hit they then made a mistake . |
9 | I sent him outside to make a start on the exterior painting , and went back to tidy up the mess . |
10 | I did n't re I thought he actually made a person , I did n't realize he made himself into a person . |
11 | And anyway , did he really make a habit of such manual labour ? |