Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] could make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Captain America and Billy the Kid had blown it when they believed they could make a lot of money and retire , but life was not simply about economics ; they had , according to Fonda , found their freedom but their liberty was like the statue in New York harbour , surrounded by polluted waters . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the French boasted they could make a neutron bomb , the US was still anguished over the spy story of Cheltenham as Prime got 35 years ' rumours of Brezhnev 's death proved true . |
| 3 | She just knew she could make a go of it ! |
| 4 | I thought she could make a selection from these . ’ |
| 5 | But in the back of our heads we knew we could make a career together . ’ |
| 6 | Because of their success , some of these worksheets on general library skills had now been subsumed within IS teaching , leaving science to concentrate upon science-specific activities : Where we thought we could make a contribution was specifically linking subject-specific library work sheets into our own science teaching . |
| 7 | ‘ And we thought we could make a birthday tea for him , ’ said Peter . |
| 8 | He realised he could make a lot of money and a name for himself if he were to act swiftly and produce his maps before Green had time to complete his own . |
| 9 | A trawler-owning ancestor of mine bought the island , apparently convinced he could make a go of farming in a place surround by his beloved sea . ’ |