Example sentences of "that [pron] [modal v] [adv] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only difference is that I wo n't make promises that I ca n't keep . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although I had ‘ backed up ’ on a floppy disc from the computer I lost both floppy and hard disc record on Friday ( yes 13th ) and it was all my address list — twenty pages this size of single line entries and with just a double space between As and Bs and Cs and Ds etc. ; I could have wept but had instead to laugh — only thing to do and a mistake or combination of same that I shall NOT make again . |
| 4 | But I do n't know that I shall ever make much use of these languages . " |
| 5 | ‘ Of course I know that I must not make this mistake . |
| 6 | I must emphasize that I will not make a further reduction in interest rates until I 'm sure that it is safe and prudent to do so . |
| 7 | Monetary policy will remain tight ; I must emphasize that I will not make a further reduction in interest rates until I am sure that it is safe and prudent to do so . |
| 8 | But not too old that I can not make sure that you never forget . |
| 9 | I enjoyed reading your material , but after consideration I 'm afraid to say that I can not make use of short stories . |
| 10 | What are some of the ways that I can actually make that clear . |
| 11 | And I was told that he was going to die shortly , and that if I wished , the measures that they were using with the respirator could be removed at my request , because he was in a terminal stage ; it was just a matter of time , and I really felt that I could n't make that decision myself . |
| 12 | It was hard to explain to a youngster who was bright but not particularly well educated that I could n't make a nerve work . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed . |
| 14 | Genet describes him as ‘ so obviously both a pimp — a barracks or red-light district ponce — and a whore that I could never make out what he was doing among the fedayeen ’ ( p. 153 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I am worried that she would not make it if she went down like that again . |
| 16 | As the only bridesmaid , she had been following Liz up the aisle of the small country church , nervously clutching her bouquet of trailing greenery and praying that she would n't make the awful mistake of treading on the long train of Liz 's wedding dress . |
| 17 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 18 | ‘ I would not like to have the task of telling her that she would never make a crime reporter ! ’ |
| 19 | Roland watched Maud making noises which he sensed came naturally , and sensed too that she would never make in the Women 's Studies building . |
| 20 | Because she 's saying that she ca n't make herself sick . |
| 21 | How typical it was of Luke to make his position so crystal-clear , drawing the line almost brutally in his determination that she should n't make any personal conclusions from his offer . |
| 22 | She had always been quite dependent on Keith , which was why he got away with such a lot , but eventually she has grown more confident , and believes that she can now make it on her own . |
| 23 | But not so deafening that she could n't make out the anguished cries of : ‘ Wheee … |
| 24 | Well my mother was very very sorry that the old lady had hurt her fingers but th on the other hand she was very very pleased that she could n't make the butter . |
| 25 | She was so relieved to hear this that she could not make any further self-sacrifice . |
| 26 | The he made a U turn and drove away so rapidly that she could not make out his number , only the red tail light diminishing , at more than legal speed , down the deserted Embankment . |
| 27 | She sat immobile for a long time , staring into the embers of the dying fire , her thoughts so chaotic that she could hardly make any order out of them . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all . |
| 30 | that you would n't make it . |