Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that game where you make a grid on a sheet of graph paper and each player has one battleship ( four squares ) , two cruisers ( three squares ) , three destroyers ( two squares ) and so on , then you have to knock out the opponent 's fleet . |
| 2 | ‘ They came to an uninhabited hut where they made a fire to dry their clothes , for all of them were wet through to the skin , and an old sail was spread upon the bare ground , which served as a bed for the Prince , who was very well pleased with it and slept soundly . ’ |
| 3 | Winston Churchill , relieved of his responsibilities , travelled to the United States of America , in March 1945 , where he made a speech in which he made a statement that was to prove profoundly true . |
| 4 | ‘ So I made a plan . |
| 5 | Mum meant it to be Israel , after her rabbinical father so I made a compromise later by labelling myself Israel Jack ) . |
| 6 | Valeri said he had found a tent and various items on the ridge , which they were attempting , so I made a list of them and he drew a sketch map of the location where the tent had been found . |
| 7 | ‘ All right , so you made a mistake , but it got you going , did n't it ? |
| 8 | You do n't want to lock your pictures away in a vault , so you make a vault of the room they 're in . |
| 9 | Uniting boredom , provinciality , the Gadarene stampede , and paper people , Peter Verkhovensky says : ‘ I realize that in this godforsaken town you are bored , so you make a rush for any piece of paper with something written on it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The problem is that once you make a mistake in deciding the child needs testing it can set up a chain of events that can lead to severe problems for the child , ’ he says . |
| 11 | No sooner had we caught the first heady whiff of the East and altered the chemistry of our food with it than we made a quantum leap in our cultural and artistic range as well . |
| 12 | ‘ So we made a plan to get ourselves off the ship , ’ Dr Livesey went on . |
| 13 | ‘ Nothing , except they made a bit of a stir ; their disappearance did . |
| 14 | Although they make a go of the cinema for a while , by showing desert pictures and pushing up the heat so that they can sell cool refreshments , their only aim is to get back to middle-class life , but with enough money to avoid any more ‘ petty , stupid problems . ’ |
| 15 | They themselves had been exploited for the purposes of exploitation and although they made a stab at the psychedelic scene , it had n't really come off . |
| 16 | I liked the way the usherette threaded the torn half-tickets on to a long string so they made a branch of monkey-puzzle tree . |
| 17 | Older players thought I was an upstart , so they made a point of scrapping with me but I thrived on it . |
| 18 | Although he made a meal of applying the finish , the ball eventually finished in the net . |
| 19 | His objective was to create an atmosphere of quiet and intimacy , so he made a garden , then a cloister and a shrine . |
| 20 | Then God wanted to have fish in the waters , so He made a mother fish to lay eggs in the water and a father fish to swim about over the eggs and take care of them … |
| 21 | If I make a promise to you in return for your supplying me with three , quite useless , chocolate wrappers , which I will instantly throw away , there is a perfectly good contract provided that the promise was seriously intended ( below , p. 205 ) . |
| 22 | What if I make a mistake ? |
| 23 | What if I make a mistake ? |
| 24 | ‘ If I make a mistake , I would much rather I was the guy who got the shrapnel . |
| 25 | If I make a mess of it that woman is going to be so glad . |
| 26 | ‘ So I shall , Bob , ’ said Dyson irritably , ‘ if I make a success of this and begin to make a name for myself . |
| 27 | I think if I make a cake today I I 'd rather put sultanas in . |
| 28 | Erm I think it might be helpful if I make a comment on this business of er tenders from the other side of the fence actually , Bob . |
| 29 | Is it alright if I make a comment ? |
| 30 | But I did n't have a large pack , I did n't and if I make a cup of tea . |