Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] make a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the White Queen , we should perhaps make a habit of believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast ! |
| 2 | So with your pennies and her pennies I think we should all make a lot of money for Save The Children , do n't you ? |
| 3 | ( c ) He must normally make a record of the search there and then unless this is impracticable . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It must also make a submission to parliament containing proposals relating to the policy to be followed next year in respect of the dealing with the state assets . |
| 6 | You should also make a bed on which the flowers can lie from plenty of clean but crumpled tissue paper , also gently tucking it around the sides of the bouquet for added protection . |
| 7 | You should also make a note of the serial numbers of your television , video and hi-fi equipment and any other items of value . |
| 8 | That 's why we should now make a start on reminding ourselves of the relevance of our own particular life story . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | no , just make , I 'll just make a way through that 's all I want . |
| 12 | You 'll just make a mess of it . ’ |
| 13 | Right I 'll just make a note of that . |
| 14 | She 'll also make a grab for any toy that takes her fancy , even if she 's told it belongs to another child . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She guessed it would be Nicky Kai , eager to hear her singing the praises of her beloved island once more , and she might be willing to stay and share the light supper she had been planning for herself as it was Sunday , the one evening of the week on which Florian might occasionally make a concession to the fact of his breakfast show slot and retire soon after dark . |
| 17 | So we could perhaps make a case for offering curatorial protection to artefactual software by regarding it as part of the contextual and functional extension of hardware without which technical history would be incomplete . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Of course , it is not necessary to press the actual flowers from the birthday celebration itself , as one could just make a picture for the eighteen-year old as a present . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Unix is not open , only ajar ’ , Harold Mead of Metron Data told delegates during a talk on capacity planning , going on to describe in detail how , despite the fact that while data for performance measurement and capacity planning is available from Unix through utilities such as sar , ps , mpstat ( on some multi-processors ) , acctcom and last , data was often presented with different formats and content that could easily make a nonsense of the figures . |
| 23 | And you could easily make a mistake with the work , you get all worked up . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed . |
| 25 | Someone could easily make a fire in there . |
| 26 | Dead Lucky was struggling to stay in touch , but he was still there nonetheless , and if she just pushed her way out , Damien could easily make a show of snatching up . |
| 27 | You could always make a splash at your local pool . |
| 28 | ‘ He 'd hardly make a fuss about an old skull , ’ Albert said , but went to Mister Johnny just the same and held out his hand . |
| 29 | One could even make a case for delaying it until the Club celebrates its Centenary Year 20 years hence . |
| 30 | Putting aside their more immediate patriotic considerations , the Lions ' selectors and coaches might be glad enough to have as much supporting evidence as possible with regard to eschewing token selections , made just to keep all four countries happy , and that could certainly make a difference to the size of the Scottish contingent . |