Example sentences of "[verb] to make [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she heard my name given out , she was certain that against all the odds it was the boy she had played with — and tried to make understand her frantic sign language and European gibberish — more than 40 years earlier . |
| 2 | While the rest of America has to make do with a fridge full of beer and a chair at screen-side , the two participating cities are permitted a temporary suspension of reason for this the first Bay Bridge Series . |
| 3 | Dr Collins has the great advantage of being allowed to go out and get new fossils from the Burgess site — everyone else has to make do with what is already in museums . |
| 4 | And while other babies can splash happily in warm baths , little Heidi has to make do with a quick sponge-down in a grubby public toilet . |
| 5 | For the historian of modern urbanization , scores of cities are available for direct inspection , while the ancient historian has to make do with a few fortuitous survivals . |
| 6 | She has to make do with what she 's got … that 's if she 's a nice girl , of course . |
| 7 | Write down the formula , the equation for making sodium chloride , and then they 'd say How many We want to make say two tonnes of sodium chloride , how many tonnes of hydrochloric acid is tat going to use up ? |
| 8 | While ‘ male ’ magazines are too numerous to mention the equally diverse ‘ female ’ population is expected to make do with just 1 or 2 magazines with their concerns at heart . |
| 9 | So did you get extra coupons if you were getting married or were you just expected to make do ? |
| 10 | Clearly the blind , the deaf and the crippled can not be expected to make do with ordinary educational provision but require specially adapted teaching methods , and in some cases peripatetic teachers if they are confined to their beds at home . |
| 11 | He had had to make do with friends ' children , many of whom were his godchildren . |
| 12 | We 'd have liked to try the LSE with Lowden 's new preamp system complete with volume and treble/bass controls on the upper bout , but none were available at the time and we 've had to make do with the non-controlled version . |
| 13 | He has had to make do without his familiar retinue of civil servants and , as plenty of critics from his own side have pointed out , he neither looks nor sounds like a prime minister . |
| 14 | Since then I have had to make do as best I might , to support you . |
| 15 | Meanwhile black youths looking for novels that reflect their own experience have had to make do with poetic accounts of life back in the Caribbean , or black gangster pulp imported from the States . |
| 16 | But we had had to make do with black crepe paper , which was the next best thing . |
| 17 | As it is , Richard , previously the Rugby Correspondent of the Western Daily Press in Bristol , has had to make do with a bottle of Glenfiddich … |
| 18 | Previously , we 've had to make do with mediocre collections of clip-art or fun things like Kid Pix . |
| 19 | Year in , year out , Bob and I have had to make do with one rotten reconditioned typewriter between us . |
| 20 | Rangers , of course , have had to make do without Gough on numerous occasions this season because of injury and , while acknowledging that he is inspirational , they have not found the loss costly . |
| 21 | Slogans such as ‘ art for the people ’ mask the cynicism of commercial and political manipulation , which would like to make believe that we all live in a homogeneous society of consumers . |
| 22 | Pesticides are often used to make produce look better by reducing blemishes and rots and the damage done by pests . |
| 23 | He is requested to make do with a sum of money . |
| 24 | " Item whereas there is Sixscore pounds due unto mee by Roger Harper and Johnn Barrett Payable at Certen Dayes and tymes agreed uponn betweene us , My mynde and will ys That the Somme of Fortye pounds being a Thirdd parte of the sayd Sixscore pounds shall be and remayne to the augmentacion and increase of the wages of the Schoolemaster of Stockport for the tyme beinge , for ever , to be hadd and receaved at suche dayes and tymes as the same shall bee due , And further I do will and bequeath the sume of Tenn pounds for and towards the augmenting of the Schoolmasters wages afforesayd to make upp the sayd sume of Fortye pounds the Full sume of Fyftie pounds All the sayd Sume to be Imployed and used for the benefit of the Schoolemaster afforesayde by the Parsonn of Stockporte the Maior of Stockport and the most Auncyent Alderman thereof for the time being . |
| 25 | Des will be cleared from quarantine on November 6 so until then , he will have to make do with a weekly Saturday visit from Dave and fellow home-based squadron mates Corporals Brian McCourt and Richard Starkey . |
| 26 | So you 'll have to make do with scones . ’ |
| 27 | ( I could n't get Tony Benn to comment on that one so we 'll have to make do with Radio One 's Janice Long ) . |
| 28 | However , in practice insufficient weight is often given to this aspect of a recruitment policy , so that a firm committed to an internal promotion policy will have to make do with available talent for future promotions . |
| 29 | We will have to make do with post hoc evaluations . |
| 30 | Since it will be a long time before the reflective process turns into action plans , we shall have to make do with what we already know and for the purposes of this chapter we can relate it to Level Three Partnership . |