Example sentences of "[verb] make [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But as the writer Patience Gray , who has made her home in the Mediterranean , points out : ‘ Pounding fragrant things — particularly garlic , basil and parsley — is a quite tremendous antidote to depression … it produces an alteration in one 's being — from sighing with fatigue to inhaling with pleasure ’ .
2 Now a widow , Mabel has made her home in the compact whitewashed building , tucked in one of Whitby 's historic yards .
3 finally only one of junior teams has made it through to the third round of the cup …
4 Moreover , both directly and through the medium of the European Community , my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has made it plain to the Government of Israel that we deplore the closure decision and that we believe that the universities , colleges and schools should remain open .
5 It took her a week to make , that dress , she 'd made it specially for the dance at the police cadets ’ college , and then she 'd been so shy she 'd spent most of the evening in the Ladies .
6 They were all built round and round and up until they came to what they called the the e the part of the stack where they begin to make it up to the top , you see ?
7 Thankfully there were no injuries and he and Ave Barlow managed to make it down to the best of the mountain safely .
8 Only about one fifth of names submitted make it through to the final roll-call of the main Honours Committee .
9 A few mono copies of the album with the deleted cuts did make it out of the factory but no stereo version was believed to have been pressed until early this year , when the only known copy was advertised for auction by Strider Records of New York .
10 When we finally did make it back to the ground , palpitating and soaked with sweat , there was no sign of Ranteallo , and much of the crowd had already dispersed on its way back to the Rante .
11 They 're not really allowed to make it down at the farm .
12 ‘ She told me she had made it up on the spot as soon as she saw the bloke . ’
13 That she had n't heard of the plan was scarcely surprising , since Belinda had made it up on the spur of the moment .
14 He went all out at a new piece , rushing into it with lots of enthusiasm and wrong notes , trying to make it sound like the finished piece as soon as possible .
15 In that case the defendant had made her home with a tenant of a private sector house for three years and continued to make her home with the tenant when he was granted a secure tenancy of a council house .
16 Being adequately provided for , he was able to book himself into a downtown hotel which cost him three dollars per night , though he often failed to make it back to the hotel , finding the cosmopolitan and nocturnal life of the town there entirely to his liking : consecration dismantled !
17 Most of the time it failed to make it out of the pit lane .
18 Swindon Town have made it through to the play-off final at Wembley .
19 In my time which coincided with Frank Hodsoll 's two terms as Chairman the agency ran smoothly , and few grants of a clearly scabrous nature ever managed to make it up from the panels , past the Chairman 's gimlet eye , to the Council .
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