Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] made " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that moment Mauleverer tottered in and made for the armchair beside the fire . |
| 2 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 3 | The fine tree was soon noticed by the king of Byblos , who ordered it to be cut down and made into a column to support the hall roof of his palace . |
| 4 | Sally confesses : ‘ We realized , after we 'd had the dividing wall rebuilt between the front room and the back parlour , that it was impossible to get in or out of the back parlour , since we 'd also had the doorway closed off and made into a display case for the tortoiseshell medical implements Peter collects . |
| 5 | ‘ Bill and I were left on stage gaping as they all got up and made for the exits . |
| 6 | It was Jo who recognised the value of the ‘ minefield of memories ’ we had stirred up and made visible , and decided to make the work public . |
| 7 | Merymose stood up and made for the door . |
| 8 | Claudia stood up and made for the door . |
| 9 | It had fallen too slowly to break but the wine had flowed out and made a dark stain like blood on the white candlewick . |
| 10 | In October Rupert at last slipped out and made for the Straits of Gibraltar . |
| 11 | Chairman some of us have already slipped out and made those phone calls could n't somebody else not do the same ? |
| 12 | ‘ When the first High Queen cheated the curse by creating the Enchantment of the Bloodline , ’ said Dierdriu , ‘ the sorceress is said to have turned back and made a curious prophecy . |
| 13 | ‘ I got a cash drawer full of beer mats you lousy low-down no-good rotten — ’ He paused in mid rant , took a look around and made with the befuddlement . |