Example sentences of "you [vb mod] [adv] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take Daniel to your room , Ben , but you must n't make a noise . |
| 2 | ‘ You Must n't Make a Mistake ’ |
| 3 | You must n't make a mistake — just like the army . |
| 4 | You should also make a bed on which the flowers can lie from plenty of clean but crumpled tissue paper , also gently tucking it around the sides of the bouquet for added protection . |
| 5 | You should also make a note of the serial numbers of your television , video and hi-fi equipment and any other items of value . |
| 6 | Even after paying £6,000 over 10 years , you might still make a loss — though Equitable paid £12,877 , and several other companies paid more than £9,000 . |
| 7 | You 'll just make a mess of it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll never make a writer , ’ he said . |
| 9 | You 'll never make a poker player , Miss Swift ! ’ |
| 10 | He flexed his hands under the cloth , and shouted irritably at Rosa , ‘ You 'll never make a city woman , thank God , ’ and then , seeing her face fall , wondered at it . |
| 11 | " You 'll never make a nun , you baggage . |
| 12 | At this point , some hawk-eyed philosopher ( hawks have very acute eyes — you could n't make a hawk 's eye by throwing lenses and light-sensitive cells together at random ) will start mumbling something about a circular argument . |
| 13 | And you could easily make a mistake with the work , you get all worked up . |
| 14 | I remember housing studies , for example , was one of the crunch points as to whether you could actually make a degree out of something of that kind . |
| 15 | I was just about to say I expect you could really make a mess if you tried and then I realized I was covered in and I 'd better shut up . |
| 16 | You could always make a splash at your local pool . |
| 17 | We 've added controls which take full advantage of the instant responsiveness and controllability of gas , so you need n't make a meal out of cooking up a snack . |
| 18 | It was a coup d'etat. ’ -Margaret Thatcher ‘ As for the leaders of the former Alliance parties , I will say no more than this : they have never learned what every woman knows — that you ca n't make a souffle rise twice . ’ |
| 19 | No matter whether it 's the ‘ Yes ’ bank , the action bank , the thoroughbred bank , the listening bank , or the bank to which all points , you ca n't make a friend of your bank manager unless you 've got loadsamoney . |
| 20 | On Thursday night you ca n't make a phone call , if you ca n't |
| 21 | I think I would simply say that er if you feel you can make a choice , so be it , if you feel you ca n't make a choice I would implore you to take up some wording similar to the wording I 've suggested , which seeks to commit the district authorities to a to a new settlement within within Greater York . |
| 22 | If you have seen a mixture of iron and sulphur and the lumps of sulphur did n't have a shiny polished surfaces that belong to iron and you ca n't make a mirror out of non-metal . |
| 23 | You ca n't make a suggestion like that when someone 's as upset as this . |
| 24 | ‘ You ca n't make a living from sitting on your fanny and reading story-books . |
| 25 | Well you ca n't make a wedding cake without glace cherries . |
| 26 | It 's not a stew without veg , you ca n't make a stew without |
| 27 | " You would n't make a profit on Lord Jim anyway " , he added , " I do n't regard her as an investment . |
| 28 | You can enter confidently into any public house argument knowing that , unlike the readers of the Doncaster Evening Post , you will not make a chump of yourself by claiming that The Wedding Present are a ‘ top rave ’ band . |
| 29 | Put , tip it on to the bridge and then you wo n't make a hole cos the bridge will be in the way . |
| 30 | You wo n't make a lot of difference . |