Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] make for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | With powerful leg strokes he made for the assault boat from which new flares were being fired . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | What a coil do I make for the loss of my punk |
4 | Some part of her tried to convince her to make for the door , but she knew they would expect that . |
5 | The poet can not lose ; whatever claims he makes for the momentousness of his subjectmatter are vindicated simply by the way those claims are made . |