Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madam Chairman if I may just make a comment of concern that information was not , on this point was not forthcoming to the county councillors of that area perhaps to make er give them an opportunity to make comment prior to you so you could make this delegated action . |
| 2 | Er Chairman , yes , if I may just make a couple of , of , of , of , of , comments on , on , on the report side , I , I very much welcome the report back which I think has clarified a number of areas in the inspector 's report and what the services are actually , actually are doing about this one , I think er overall it 's er it , it , it 's , it 's very , it 's very er it 's very er very useful to see er what has been done erm I , I , I , I , I 've been assured by the Chief Officer er on item , item er , item three one at the top of page two , that the operational plans being devolved to individual sch will not apply to operational activity , they will be er to separate activity within the s er sch station , erm I did raise that because I was concerned about one station saying yes we will attend the fire and another one saying we wo n't , which obviously is not appropriate er but with that caveat I , I , I , very much welcome the report , I would like to move the proposals sch standing in , in , in , in , in my name that we commend the report as well as er er what 's on the officer 's erm er , er , er recomen er the re the recommended er resolution and that we send a copy of that , this |
| 3 | I 'll just make a humorous point , I 've got a sick dog , but I see that is n't er , covered . |
| 4 | Right I 'll just make a note of that . |
| 5 | Fine , can you bear with me for five seconds while I 'll just make a phone call ? |
| 6 | no , just make , I 'll just make a way through that 's all I want . |
| 7 | I 'll just make a full band , stitch it on |
| 8 | I 'll probably make a better job of it than you would . ’ |
| 9 | So you 're feeling relaxed and comfortable and good because you 're telling me , you know , what a great tennis player I am and I really enjoy it , you 've just given me a couple of names that I 'll either make a note of or I 'll say that 's interesting cos I actually deal with Joe on a business relationship anyway erm maybe we could meet some other people from the tennis club , self employed people , professional people such as yourself , who might be interested in looking at financial planning but today I 'm more interested in talking about you Bill , erm we 'll come back to them a bit later if I may so let's press on . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll never make a secretary , Aggie ; I 've got nothing up top . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed . |
| 12 | Chairman I I wonder whether I could just make a sort of general statement from the department 's view before we go on to a particular issue if I may . |
| 13 | If I could just make a point about affordable housing chairman , of course the department recognizes that there is a problem of affordable housing as evidenced by minister 's statements but the view of my policy colleagues in headquarters is that this is most appropriately addresses in district wide plans and not necessarily at structure plan level . |
| 14 | If I could just make a brief point on employment . |
| 15 | Someone could easily make a fire in there . |
| 16 | But like , I could say to you , you know ah , you know , how are yo , you know , and I 'd probably make a joke out of it ! |
| 17 | They said I 'd never make a manager . |
| 18 | ‘ The bugger said I 'd never make a businessman . |
| 19 | So that I would n't get involved with careers officers I 'd actually make a jump and that I would do the three wise monkeys and Hilary . |
| 20 | Another neglected master emerged on three LPs of Piano Sonatas by Harold Truscott , played , as in the Founds , by the indefatigable peter Jacobs ; they revealed a muscial thinker of a very high order who has been , and still is , cruelly ignored by the muscial establishment ( again , I understand that John Ogdon 's recording for Altarus of Truscott 's Tenth is due for release soon — and I would also make a plea for a re-issue of those other Sonatas on CD : they are contrapuntal masterpieces , sometimes witty , often beautiful , and they ought to be much more widely known ) . |
| 21 | I would never make a pass at Caduta — no , not Caduta and if you made a pass at her , I 'd beat you up . |
| 22 | He wrote , for instance , of having bought ‘ the yellow wool for a sweater for winter , I shall also make a black one with one side having very narrow yellow stripes . |
| 23 | If things get too complicated , he told himself , not for the first time in the last few months , I can always make a run for it . |
| 24 | I can still make a flight back to Blighty which will connect with the last plane to Inverness . |
| 25 | Port Glasgow and Leith , the main centres of trade , were the ports with the best-paid officers , but equally , they would also require the greatest amount of work from the incumbents , who would be much more under the eye of the supervisory staff based at Edinburgh , which might well make a less well-paid , but remote , port more attractive to the more independent officers . |
| 26 | The whiskers were too small to see with the naked eye and nobody could possibly make a testing machine on that scale . |
| 27 | Go much below that and the monitoring problems are vastly complicated by natural upsets , like earthquakes and even man-made chemical explosions ( which would also make a comprehensive test ban pretty difficult to be sure of ) . |
| 28 | It was already chaotically busy with officials and administrators knitting together the many responsibilities which would eventually make a successful tournament . |
| 29 | Here , instinctual need provides the impetus for intelligent action , and an instinctual drive which would merely make a hungry dog bark at a suspended bone makes a hungry primate build , climb and reach with a tool . |
| 30 | However , Mr Lamont , who may also make a cut in betting duty , is set to sanction the VAT registration of owners , enabling the recovery of VAT incurred on buying horses and on training fees . |