Example sentences of "[pron] would make [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My parents are dead now , and I moved away from our village to quite a big town in the hope that I would make friends . |
| 2 | ‘ We took the caravan to Teesdale every weekend during the season and I would make sketches of landscapes or take photos and paint them when I got home . |
| 3 | I would make amends if they would contact me , and would be so glad to invite them to my home , to meet my wife and children . |
| 4 | ‘ If I was designing a one-off house , I would make acoustics a priority , because noise is one of the most harrowing problems of contemporary living . |
| 5 | In a town where the politics of two great interests clashed , it was essential to make the best possible use of any means of influence and to have a deputy functioning in the regality court in a way which would make friends for the duke 's interest rather than enemies . |
| 6 | This , coupled with the rise of a narrower version of monetarism , was to clear the ground for a far more extreme school of macroeconomics which would make adherents to old style monetarism look like liberal wimps . |
| 7 | As a result of a two day debate at Westminster and the publication of a White Paper " The Northern Ireland Constitution " the Westminster government decided that a Constitutional Convention should be elected which would make proposals regarding the way in which the people of Northern Ireland themselves wished to be governed . |
| 8 | Although this represented no more than 4–5 per cent of their combined nuclear arsenals , it was nonetheless the first significant agreement of this kind between the two powers since the ABM treaty of 1972 , and was held by both sides to presage the conclusion of an agreement the following year which would make cuts of up to 50 per cent in strategic nuclear arms . |
| 9 | Government changes to the tax system in recent years had allowed the company to come up with a solution which would make shares which had been trading at less than £3 last month to £5 , Mr Ritblat said . |
| 10 | The new constitution , which was based on that of the NCCL , emphasised the association 's character as a body which would make representations on the broad issues of civil liberties and would also take up individual cases of discrimination and ill-treatment . |
| 11 | Lichenologists have estimated that crustose lichens in Alaska and Lappland grow at a rate of 3–4mm/100 years , which would make lichens there of 480 mm diameter at least 9000 years old . |
| 12 | In time , perhaps , she would make efforts to conceal her resentment about his ability to make her feel guilty , and he would make efforts to conceal his anguish about the loss of her . |
| 13 | She frowned slightly ; it would n't do to have letters like this arriving here , she would make arrangements today for a discreet postal address . |
| 14 | They were on strike for the right to vote , to elect men like themselves to positions of authority as the gentry and the millmasters now did — who would make laws not only to suit the needs of squires and of the middle-classes — but of the common man . |
| 15 | In 1942 , after a long preamble once again accusing the government of ‘ favouritism ’ towards the Masai , he asked in the Legislative Council if a thousand square miles of Masailand could be set aside for ‘ settlement of fighting services personnel , when their job of destroying our foul enemies , who would make slaves of the Masai , is completed ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ He sounds like the type who would make enemies . ’ |
| 17 | To train health staff in the Government-run Upazila Health Complexes ( an Upazila being an administrative area containing approximately 200,000 people ) and to organise a group of village-based volunteers who would make ORS available to any of the villagers on a 24 hour-a-day basis . |
| 18 | Farmers were told they would make pots of money , more than the heroin processors in the neighbouring , largely tribal agency of Bajaur could hope to offer . |
| 19 | They would make pails and basins like you were being requiring in your sc er scullery or in the milk house as you would keep milk there . |
| 20 | They would make enquiries at Pytle Farm and the house called the Mill in the Pytle . |
| 21 | Banks covering 28% of the debt said they would make loans equivalent to 20% of their existing exposure . |
| 22 | The tragedy of clients ' huge losses is that they were sometimes led to believe they would make fortunes on the above stocks within a month or two , maybe within three or four weeks . |
| 23 | From there , like a buzzard in its eyrie , he would make forays round the US and abroad in spite of his advanced age . |
| 24 | After the rough ingots of metal had solidified , a smith would need to work the metal and hammer it out , or perhaps he would make moulds and pour the molten metal into the shaped mould . |
| 25 | They predicted that he would make friends more easily , reckoning without natural adolescent malice and the excessive value their pupils had been taught to place on modesty , however false . |
| 26 | In time , perhaps , she would make efforts to conceal her resentment about his ability to make her feel guilty , and he would make efforts to conceal his anguish about the loss of her . |
| 27 | He would make comments about them ‘ in the same way you or I would comment on a pretty girl and a wonderful pair of knockers ’ . |
| 28 | Thomas , who also knew nothing about the affair , was highly embarrassed and could only say that he would make enquiries . |
| 29 | He said he would make arrangements for Mrs Bean to be taken to hospital , but that he would prefer to talk to her son first . |
| 30 | His last thoughts were that he would make amends for this day ; he could baptise the maiden , they could be saved together , they could marry , he would love her , his heathen maiden , no , his heathen hoyden , he liked the rhyming of that , heathen hoyden , he would cherish her beneath the fruit-laden tree . |