Example sentences of "[pron] makes " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You both have that golden skin , but yours makes one think of lovely geometrical planes , you 're all bone , she 's got bone too , but what one sees most is contour and colour — no , you are not remotely the same type , she could never be painted by a Modigliani or a Loulou , or a Piero for that matter , she is something between a Titian and a Gainsborough . ’ |
| 2 | I makes them myself in the back yard there I do it . |
| 3 | I makes them every year , I makes them every year do n't I dad ? |
| 4 | I makes them every year , I makes them every year do n't I dad ? |
| 5 | I makes a change . |
| 6 | I makes you wonder when there is up there and what 's happened to them but this is what we said we found . |
| 7 | serves them right my makes you wan na fucking cry do n't it , ah ? |
| 8 | ‘ It wo n't be the last time someone makes a pass at you , ’ I said prosaically . |
| 9 | ‘ And if someone makes you choose ? ’ |
| 10 | Coaching also means insisting at housegroup level that if someone makes a commitment to the group and does n't live up to it that they say Sorry to the group about it . |
| 11 | Listening alertly is trying to understand what people are saying rather than just hearing the sounds that someone makes . |
| 12 | The quietly-spoken , 42-year-old director of Mona Lisa and The Crying Game , amongst others , is one of the most accommodating interviewees it 's possible to imagine , seeming to feel under sentence to talk until someone makes his stop . |
| 13 | Once someone makes the connection , there 's nothing we can do . ’ |
| 14 | Their statements seem to have a number of points in common : first , they tend to be expressed in inappropriate circumstances , for example , someone makes a contribution to a congress , and someone else feels compelled to make an immediate reply . |
| 15 | Open up your mind to the possibility that every suggestion someone makes to you is an opportunity for achieving even more profitable results . |
| 16 | In reading this short passage we are likely to make an assumption : that when someone makes breakfast , it is eaten . |
| 17 | On the other hand , there may be moments of real illumination and discovery , when someone makes a comment that springs from a quite different frame of reference from one 's own . |
| 18 | This may happen where someone makes a recording for anything other than private and domestic use without consent . |
| 19 | If someone makes a knowledge claim in respect of a proposition , it is meaningful to enquire about the criteria of such knowledge . |
| 20 | Or someone makes them up , of course . |
| 21 | What it basically means is that if someone makes a gift during his lifetime and-does n't die for a given period , that gift is free of estate duty , or partly free . |
| 22 | This carries on until the program is as bug-free as it can be , at which point someone makes the decision that the final code for release has been reached . |
| 23 | Every time something stirs , every time someone makes a contact , we should cherish it , examine it , and hope . |
| 24 | I admire your loyalty , Paige , darling , but not when someone makes outrageous demands . |
| 25 | I ca n't stand it if someone makes a sudden movement I am really nervous all the time . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not so easy to buy land or factories , so as soon as someone makes money they spend it on a top-of-the-range Mercedes or on expensive furniture for their flat . ’ |
| 27 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 28 | It 's only because he wants to prevent the bomb going off that this belief of his makes him shoot . |
| 29 | Sir : Shabbir Akhtar ( 10 October ) himself makes what he might call a pardonable error in thinking that to liberals — genuine ones , not the compromisers so regretfully limned in John Torode 's article ( 3 October ) - freedom of speech is an absolute value . |
| 30 | Among Britain 's backs only Andy Gregory has been capped more than his former colleagues at Widnes , and the Wigan scrum half himself makes a comeback from injury against Barrow tomorrow , his fitness still in doubt . |