Example sentences of "[vb pp] to make for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had decided to make for a small river valley in which there was an isolated church reached by a footpath across fields . |
| 2 | There were some , like Henry Armstrong at the end of the century , who urged a ‘ heuristic ’ method of teaching in which the pupil would be helped to make for himself the discoveries of Newton , Lavoisier and Faraday . |
| 3 | It was n't any use going back to the shop now ; she would phone Myra , then she would get down to designing the bridesmaids ' dresses that would match the bride 's gown she was commissioned to make for a big wedding in the autumn . |
| 4 | Do you know , on the first night , Malcolm Harris did n't know about the cuts we 'd had to make for time . |
| 5 | So he ordered to be brought to him the finest silk cloth and brilliant threads , and made for pleasure what he had once needed to make for harsh necessity . |
| 6 | But there 's even more to disagree with , particularly in the suggested preparations we are told to make for the forthcoming holocaust . |
| 7 | The presence of two tricksters on stage at one and the same time is bound to make for comedy , and so it does here . |
| 8 | Against this wage trend , the rising prices of the latter part of the century were bound to make for severe reductions in living standards . |
| 9 | Nor are viewers left to make for themselves the link between the ‘ nation of arch fanatics led by an arch fanatic ’ that confronted The Young Mr Pitt ( 1942 ) and Britain 's contemporary enemies . |
| 10 | No sooner has a toddler begun to make for the water 's edge than heads turn and adults prepare to go to the rescue . |
| 11 | If he makes a will , as most men do , it is almost certain that he will set apart a considerable proportion for the saying of masses ; if he should neglect to do so , and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it is regarded as almost a sin to die without making a will , the Church ought to make the provision which he has failed to make for his soul . |