Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] could make [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know about market gardening and I could make a go of that . |
| 2 | I had a friend who had one of those ancient slide machines which was used to give light shows , and you could make the slides out of coloured oils and inks and put them together between two sheets of glass and when they 're heated up inside the machine , they went , splat , splat , and made these rather beautiful moving colours . |
| 3 | No , she was on a crest of ability and luck , and she could make no mistakes . |
| 4 | And we could make a number one . |
| 5 | It 's a hundred and twenty miles — say up to three hours in that little crate — and he could make the night train down , arriving home in the early morning and , with luck , not being recognized by anybody on the trip or at the station , and not disturbing the family . ’ |
| 6 | He just turned it up and he could make the thing do anything he liked : make toast or take the dog for a walk , answer the door … he could do anything with it . ’ |
| 7 | But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’ |
| 8 | I was always her property , but I could make an evening , or an afternoon for that matter , swing for all the ladies . |
| 9 | ‘ But I could make the aeroplane . |
| 10 | Small babies always look lovely in photographs , regardless of the surround , but you could make the picture of a new baby even more special by decorating it with a pretty mount . |
| 11 | ’ No , but she could make an effort to be civil . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We always figured we could n't afford ads , but we could make a lot of noise ’ , says Miles . |
| 13 | The subtle effects of centuries of propaganda will not be easily overcome , but we could make a start by looking more honestly at the reality of war and stop being blinded by the glamour . |
| 14 | Ratagan was leaning across the table and pouring him some of the dark , malty beer , but he could make no sense out of the big man 's words . |