Example sentences of "you make a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If you make a hash of any of the work , he may worry that his reputation could be jeopardized , and could charge extra for putting things right .
2 You do n't want to lock your pictures away in a vault , so you make a vault of the room they 're in .
3 Every time you make a change , it 's instantly applied to a letter ‘ M ’ in one corner of the Window .
4 So you want to make a note of what 's changed , so when you make a change , who made it , .
5 Do this outside in case you make a mess .
6 You make a window for us . ’
7 If you make a typing error then you can use the standard keys — the cursor keys to move and the delete keys to delete .
8 When you have considered the brief provided can we please discuss the detail and objective to allow me to expand on any points before you make a response .
9 I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you , the part of you that chooses , into something a little different from what it was before .
10 How you make a choice of career is likely to be a significant factor in determining how successful it ultimately is .
11 At night you make a bunker to sleep in
12 It 's that game where you make a grid on a sheet of graph paper and each player has one battleship ( four squares ) , two cruisers ( three squares ) , three destroyers ( two squares ) and so on , then you have to knock out the opponent 's fleet .
13 Uniting boredom , provinciality , the Gadarene stampede , and paper people , Peter Verkhovensky says : ‘ I realize that in this godforsaken town you are bored , so you make a rush for any piece of paper with something written on it . ’
14 They will often invite you in to see their stock , and if you make a purchase you may be rewarded with a glass of madeira wine .
15 You make a hole in the outside wall and run the waste pipe through , fit an elbow and lead another pipe into the hopper head .
16 You make a withdrawal , they take it away and let's say you can go overdrawn , so you 've got eighty pound in the building society , and you take a hundred out , how much have you got left now ?
17 for the easy job , you set your stall out , you make a jig to sort it all out , you can slide it in , zip , zip , zip , done you could probably say what , three an hour out , if you 're lucky , two and a half , three an hour
18 And God tells him , he says , you make a serpent of brass and put it on a pole in the middle of the camp so that everybody can see it they look to that serpent of brass , they will be healed .
19 Before you make a decision , take advice and compare prices with at least three other companies .
20 ‘ If you have many valuable paintings , as I have — I will show you two more upstairs later — you make a decision .
21 Now the effect is that if you make a decision from London , if you impose a decision from London , the people you impose that decision on are very very demoralised .
22 I think you need to check out those figures first , before you make a decision on it .
23 I think if we go through and have a look at these other ones that Jenny has done and you make a decision at that point as to whether .
24 You make a building then I 'll .
25 An employer should not , however , react excessively or too soon if you make a mistake .
26 And if by confusion you make a mistake ,
27 If you make a mistake when building a mains powered project there is almost certain to be some damage , even if it is only something minor such as a blown fuse and damaged switch .
28 If you make a mistake when drawing a design on a pattern sheet do not despair , I have found that W.H. Smith 's ‘ Cover-up strips ’ will cover wrongly marked black squares .
29 Although putting inserts and dubs onto original video tapes is quite straightforward , it does carry the risk that , if you make a mistake , you may ruin an irreplaceable recording .
30 However , speaking commentary while watching the screen for cues is not easy , and if you make a mistake you have to go right back to the beginning and start all over again .
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