Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [modal v] make [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Promotion to Vice-Questore seemed certain and the general feeling was that if I played my cards right I would make Questore in the end . |
| 2 | Perhaps she could make tea . |
| 3 | In a family business ( such as a tea-room , cafe , small guest-house or hotel ) where those working for the business are simply the husband and wife , if the enterprise is run on a sole trader basis , the husband , as the proprietor , may claim that his wife works in the business as an employee and so she may make use of her married woman 's earned income allowance against any income she may earn . |
| 4 | So you 've got to get a system where you can something that 'll help you so you can make sense of it and and learn . |
| 5 | John — fit and well — said : ‘ The clinic 's doctors just tried to fool me I was dying so they could make money . ’ |
| 6 | If only he could make contact with a genuine practising artist he 'd be able to discuss all these things and get proper advice . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps it 'll make Daddy want me to be one too , ’ she added hopefully . |
| 8 | Obviously it would make sense to remove or reduce ( as far as possible ) the provocations ( antecedents ) that lead to bickering , fighting or other forms of dispute . |
| 9 | So it might make sense to pay off part of her mortgage . |
| 10 | So it can make sense , in these early formative years , when vitamins have such a positive effect on healthy development , hat your child takes a supplement . |
| 11 | I knew that tonight she would make love to another man . |
| 12 | Tonight she would make love for the first time — and it would be with the man she loved . |
| 13 | Hopefully they will make Teesside a smaller geographical area than Cleveland . ’ |
| 14 | If you could make my look , my money work a bit harder it would make sense to me , after all . |
| 15 | Another er important point is that now we can make use of text books that were not available in the past , we got a lot of help from er West German publishing houses , because they provided East German English teachers with er text books , with cassettes and other teaching material , er and that will help to improve the whole teaching situation in that part of Germany . |
| 16 | Surely we can make compromise with professional scepticism by suggesting air pockets ( do whales suffer from wind like everyone else ? ) or stomach juices whose efficacy was hindered by some cetacean ailment . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ Surely it would make sense just to get the game played . ’ |
| 18 | If you know something about the deeper inner workings of computers then you can make use of this fact to guess what sort of things might cause a program some difficulties . |
| 19 | And then she would make coffee for my mother . |
| 20 | ‘ Then we 'll make time , ’ Luke offered expressionlessly . |
| 21 | So it 's definitely the latter , we are developing a fully capable Eurofighter two thousand aircraft and if erm any of our four participating nations do not want a particular facility then we will make provision for them to leave that out in production and if an export customer does not require the full range of capabilities we can also remove them for that export customer . |
| 22 | One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren . |
| 23 | Sometimes it can make sense to borrow short term to avoid unlocking well-placed savings or investments . |
| 24 | If the other Devon districts were in fact the chief suppliers of patients and users of the big hospital facilities then it would make sense for management and costs to be handed over to them . |
| 25 | If physics is to be taken as the acme of scientific knowledge , then it would make sense to try to emulate the methods that physics uses to gain its knowledge , and where else could one go for this by way of a shortcut but to philosophy , the discipline that has been endlessly preoccupied with the foundations of human knowledge . |
| 26 | then it would make sense if you 're gon na continue doing that |
| 27 | I 'm , I 'm sure that would happen , but Lithuania , if , if it had the er complete independence to er choose it 's own trading partners , it 's own defence partners , then it would make sense for Lithuania to have some sort of a a trading arrangement with the old communist block and . |
| 28 | Suppose the same sort of bargain will have to be concluded quite often , then it may make sense to devise a framework , or ‘ governance structure ’ or protocol , to facilitate it . |
| 29 | Indeed it will make use of the laws of physics , and nothing more than the laws of physics . |
| 30 | He tried to lighten his mood , grinning at her like a schoolboy , ‘ Apart from anything else we could make love at breakfast-time , lunch-time and tea-time . ’ |