Example sentences of "[pron] make [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ And if you 're feeling tired , what about a dose or two of that tonic you make up for the patients ? ’ |
| 6 | I watched you make off along the cliff path , as if you were making for Otters ' Bay . |
| 7 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 8 | Niven Jr was tied up by two gunmen , who made off with the haul belonging to Elizabeth Adams . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They are separate forms , neither one made out of the other . |
| 13 | Arm in arm they made off towards the kitchen-garden . |
| 14 | ‘ Can you honestly see him making out on the Island ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |