Example sentences of "to make [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generations of lobby journalists at Westminster have had to tussle with the challenge of reconciling the remarks Tory politicians are prepared to make off the record with the ringing declarations of total loyalty and conformity they deliver in public . |
| 2 | I decided to make for the orchard and the safety of my own trench . |
| 3 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 4 | Realizing that there was little chance of getting into such a defended area undetected , they decided to make for the rendezvous , contenting themselves with placing their bombs on vehicles parked for the night alongside the road . |
| 5 | It was by then too late to make for the safety of the mountains , and the scattered groups of jeeps had to hide as best they could at the foot of the escarpment . |
| 6 | Ray began to make for the door . |
| 7 | If a cat enters a room where several people are talking , it is very likely to make for the one person there who has an abnormal fear of felines . |
| 8 | But there 's even more to disagree with , particularly in the suggested preparations we are told to make for the forthcoming holocaust . |
| 9 | No sooner has a toddler begun to make for the water 's edge than heads turn and adults prepare to go to the rescue . |
| 10 | When he set out today it had been his intention to make for the hills bordering the Golden Valley , but when he got through Blakemere the sweat was dripping from his chin and the sight of a stream tinkling its way not three yards from the road automatically brought his legs off the pedals . |
| 11 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |
| 12 | No one had any comment to make for the excellent reason that everyone had already been convinced of the fact . |
| 13 | When on two occasions Ewen turned to make for the open sea , Neil , increasing our speed slightly , held on to what looked like a collision course . |
| 14 | In the event the vast majority continued to make for the seaside resorts in the area , leaving the conservationists to fend off the more predatory designs of farmers and water authorities . |
| 15 | Some part of her tried to convince her to make for the door , but she knew they would expect that . |
| 16 | Instead of making directly for it , I followed a track that seemed to make for the Foulness road , about half a mile beyond the village or hamlet marked as Crabtree Wick . |
| 17 | In one sense it 's part of every man 's dream at some time or other — to make for the country and live off and in nature . |
| 18 | She started as though to make for the front door , but Mr Hunter held up a hand to stop her . |
| 19 | It was a relief therefore to make for the frozen shore where the parson was protesting that his wife would be safer and more comfortable if she remained in the carriage . |
| 20 | ‘ On the other hand , if you 've allowed yourself to be persuaded either by Lotta 's silver tongue or her golden purse to attempt to defraud me — then your best course of action now would be to make for the door before I remember that the blood of the ancient Vikings still runs in my veins ! ’ |
| 21 | She beat down a gush of self-pity , knuckling away tears as she slid gingerly from the bed to make for the bathroom again . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't worry about that , ’ he said dismissively , and focused his attention on the traffic of Haverfordwest as he skirted the town to make for the road to Carmarthen . |
| 23 | IF you like to feel at one with nature when you are having a tipple , you could do a lot worse than to make for the upstairs bar in the Shaftesbury Inn on Belfast 's Antrim Road . |
| 24 | 11am The Government Commissioners came on board to ask every person if they had any complaints to make for the treatment during the voyage . |
| 25 | There are areas , one or two of which I will go on to elude to , which I still think are actually going to make for the greatest savings in the coming financial year and thereafter . |
| 26 | The one before this one , co-incidentally , was a very broad one , which was an attempt at assessing the results of Five , which of course took place in Manila in May/June , and right after that , with the participation of some of the people who had been , in Five we tried to assess what impact , if any , their conference is going to make for the future of the world economic system . |
| 27 | Polite noises are all that Mr Kaifu and his colleagues would prefer to make about the ‘ Japan Sea development zone ’ . |
| 28 | They have some fairly disparaging comments to make about the study of ‘ use ’ as a predictor for weeding . |
| 29 | The main point to make about the Programme Authorities was that their total allocations from the Urban Programme were very small . |
| 30 | What kind of predictions would he be likely to make about the behaviour of those he became involved with ? |