Example sentences of "[pron] make [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know what the others did but I made straight towards the front of the packed train , threading an unsteady way through seemingly endless sleeping cars ( passing my own berth ) , through the still busy central dining car , the full and raucous open-seat dayniter , three more sleeping cars , the crowded dome car ( dining room , kitchen , lounge , observation deck ) , another sleeping car , and finally reaching the horses . |
| 2 | I made straight for the curtains , and he went by me without noticing . |
| 3 | I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue . |
| 4 | I would always try and choose pieces which I thought had a bit of atmosphere and mood , a passion which made up for the lack of presentation ! ’ |
| 5 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 6 | Last week Mr Harper 's brother Paul offered a £500 reward for information leading to the conviction of the four-man gang which made off with the £3,000 haul . |
| 7 | ‘ And if you 're feeling tired , what about a dose or two of that tonic you make up for the patients ? ’ |
| 8 | I watched you make off along the cliff path , as if you were making for Otters ' Bay . |
| 9 | Mrs Chalk was nowhere to be found , so she made straight for the medicine cupboard in the spacious Georgian-style kitchen with its enormous , old-fashioned white-painted cupboards and scrubbed-elm table , and located the painkillers , swallowing the dosage with water before setting about making the tea . |
| 10 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 11 | Turning from him , she made quickly for the door . |
| 12 | Niven Jr was tied up by two gunmen , who made off with the haul belonging to Elizabeth Adams . |
| 13 | One of his two sixes off left-arm spinner henry went out of the ground , and play was held up while police vainly chased a thief who made off with the ball . |
| 14 | What are you making now by the way ? |
| 15 | Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time . |
| 16 | ‘ He had another one made later at the Mandarin Hotel , but the first one made him something of a laughing stock . ’ |
| 17 | But following your argument that would indicate that the image we have now is a concocted one made up by the press to a large extent . |
| 18 | They are separate forms , neither one made out of the other . |
| 19 | Arm in arm they made off towards the kitchen-garden . |
| 20 | ‘ Can you honestly see him making out on the Island ? ’ |
| 21 | He soon calmed down , then went across and fussed over her to make up for the rumpus , though it had n't bothered her in the slightest . |
| 22 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 23 | Yesterday , he said he ‘ forgot ’ about the trip which he made shortly after the break-up of his second marriage to Dr Who actress Janet Fielding . |
| 24 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |
| 25 | She always observed every move he made out of the corner of one eye , though , and if he stirred in any way , even just to stretch or yawn , she would immediately react and flex herself to take defensive action . |
| 26 | Since he made swiftly towards the forest , I had not much option but to follow . |
| 27 | He makes up for the boredom and emptiness of his own life by creating a dramatic emotional triangle for these puppets of his imagination , only to realise finally that his puppets are dancing to quite another tune . |
| 28 | ‘ You can do nothing to make up for the time that 's been wasted checking for a link between that incident and the murder of Hal MacQuillan . ’ |