Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [adv] make [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | They said I 'd never make a manager . |
| 3 | ‘ The bugger said I 'd never make a businessman . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd never make the mistake of assuming you were like other women — because they have blood running in their veins , warm , human , fallible blood . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | I would never make a pass at Caduta — no , not Caduta and if you made a pass at her , I 'd beat you up . |
| 8 | ‘ I would not like to have the task of telling her that she would never make a crime reporter ! ’ |
| 9 | Thanks but no-thanks , we 'd rather make the programme we want to , despite the horrendous budget problems . |
| 10 | We 'd often make the owd gel go for twenty-four weeks without coming to us . |
| 11 | I drank to the toast , though I was not at all sure that we would actually make the crossing in Wavebreaker . |
| 12 | Neither thought they would ever make a living from ice hockey . |
| 13 | Harbury rattled on : ‘ I know he 'd rather make a statement later on and give it simultaneously to everyone . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | He would never make a mistake about something like that . |
| 16 | It marks a change of heart for Scorsese , who once swore he would never make a film about the Mafia , and led De Niro to break a few rules of his own : ‘ I was in the middle of filming We 're No Angels when we started to discuss GoodFellas and began working on my role , Jim Conway , together . |
| 17 | And Mark — he would never make a priest . |
| 18 | Such powerful artefacts as the Doomstones can not have escaped the notice of the Great Enchanter , and he would certainly make every effort to get hold of them . |
| 19 | This would , it was thought , avoid difficulties which might otherwise arise through local authorities failing to co-ordinate their activities , and it would also make the system more intelligible to the general public . |
| 20 | But it would still make a bomb that could flatten much of a city and drench the place with fall-out . |