Example sentences of "[pron] would make [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They would make enquiries at Pytle Farm and the house called the Mill in the Pytle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | From there , like a buzzard in its eyrie , he would make forays round the US and abroad in spite of his advanced age . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |