Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] [adv] make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll go to church more often , or I 'll read my bible more regularly , or I 'll really make an issue about praying , it 's not , it 's not that at all . |
| 2 | He or she will usually make a recommendation to the committee about what its decision should be , but it does not have to follow this advice . |
| 3 | They ca n't consider everybody or they could never make a decision . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed . |
| 6 | ‘ I would not like to have the task of telling her that she would never make a crime reporter ! ’ |
| 7 | It may sound priggish , but she says it 's unwise to go against one 's nature , its fundamental requirements , she knew that she could only make a go of it , a real go — and that was what she wanted — with some very extraordinary kind of man , and she had n't met him yet . |
| 8 | Nothing wrong with that , of course , but let's not pretend that one can really make a decent living just by turning wood . |
| 9 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 10 | Well he 's gone on seven days of the week complaining about so and so we 'll just narrow that down to one article about his his complaint that they may just make a little note he 's complained seven times about this ! |
| 11 | Wills were normally made shortly before death , as many a shaky signature can testify ; some people left it so late that they could only make an oral statement ( or nuncupative will ) , which was written down and sworn to by witnesses . |
| 12 | And of course all that is a play-off against you know keeping that franchisee er involved and keeping them feeling that they can still make a profit . |
| 13 | Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd warns that it will likely make an unconsolidated or parent company current loss of $335m for the year to March 31 ; it had previously seen a loss of $215m and reported an $11m profit last year ; it expects a group current loss of $344m for the year . |
| 14 | They used to say that he could almost make a horse fly . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | And I could even make an educated guess what that might be . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If I could just make a brief point on employment . |
| 22 | The whiskers were too small to see with the naked eye and nobody could possibly make a testing machine on that scale . |
| 23 | And you could easily make a mistake with the work , you get all worked up . |
| 24 | Before the tax year has ended , ask the Inland Revenue if you can still make an adjustment . |
| 25 | A lot of the points discussed had also been considered by the cricket committee and we shall now make a thorough investigation . ’ |
| 26 | If there is a disturbance at the periphery we already know some observation sentences which we have to revise , and we must also make a revision in the interior , for our original theory has been proved false . |
| 27 | Many of them go on to wonder if they could ever make a marriage . |
| 28 | If he can actually make an effort to write in and persecute gays and ‘ ethnics ’ , then it is he who is spreading a terrible disease and ‘ twisting young kids ’ minds ’ . |
| 29 | You just do n't have the people jumping onstage going , F**k Margaret Thatcher , anymore , but you can still make a point . ’ |
| 30 | You just do n't have the people jumping onstage going , F**k Margaret Thatcher , anymore , but you can still make a point . ’ |