Example sentences of "but [pron] [modal v] [adv] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I ca n't make sense of it . ’ |
| 2 | But I wo n't make love to you while your mind 's still closed to me , Shannon Lea . ’ |
| 3 | I shall not necessarily take the hon. Gentleman 's figures on the disabled as being correct , but I shall certainly make inquiries of British Coal to find out what the position is , and I shall write to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 4 | But I could not make Adèle concentrate on her lessons because she was constantly talking about the presents Mr Rochester had promised to bring her . |
| 5 | Rosie said something about keys but I could n't make head or tail of it . ’ |
| 6 | His lips moved , and some noises came out but I could n't make sense of them . |
| 7 | Tell him that I am very sorry but I can not make exceptions . |
| 8 | There 's not the same pressure on the dealing floor as at DPR , but you 'll still make loads of money . |
| 9 | ‘ But you ca n't make war without the Kha-Khan 's permission . ’ |
| 10 | Nenna was ashamed , but she could n't make amends , not now . |
| 11 | One chieftain , Wittikind , fled north to take refuge with the Danes , a race hardly known to the Franks at that time , but who would later make inroads into the empire . |
| 12 | We could sell his story but we could never make money from other people 's suffering … ’ |
| 13 | They will grumble but they wo n't make war ; tell Bismarck not to be in any way bothered about this . |
| 14 | But they could not make love . |
| 15 | Doubtless this means the end of straight arithmetical calculation , but it may still make sense to speak of informed judgements as to which patterns of pleasurable experience form more pleasurable lives . |
| 16 | ’ But it ca n't make life any easier for you at the moment . ’ |
| 17 | But it should n't make people scared of touching each other . |
| 18 | It can ask things of politicians but it can not make demands of them . |
| 19 | This will exclude the counter-examples , but it will also make knowledge a rare phenomenon at best . |