Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] ends [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is forced to buy things from charity shops to make ends meet . |
| 2 | Many were forced to take part-time jobs or handouts from parents to make ends meet . |
| 3 | My brother Charlie 's left 'ome an' sister Mary 's married an' Mum 'as to go out cleaning the fish an' chip shop to make ends meet . ’ |
| 4 | They have to struggle desperately every day to make ends meet . |
| 5 | ‘ I love driving but I was doing this 14 or 15 hours a day to make ends meet . |
| 6 | Then , credit is seen as a necessity ( Appendix II ; section 1 ) : ‘ You buy on credit to make ends meet … . ’ , ‘ none of us would have things if it was n't for catalogues ’ , ‘ … when you want to replace anything you are forced to use HP because you do n't have the cash ’ . |
| 7 | Sally knew her mother had trouble making ends meet on the nine pounds ten shillings a week that her father brought home from his job as an electrician 's mate and she did n't have the heart to plead for luxuries she knew they could not afford as Paula did . |
| 8 | My widowed mother aged 68 draws the state pension and is having trouble making ends meet . |
| 9 | ‘ And I know of one Darlington school which is running a lottery to make ends meet . |
| 10 | Father had given up tobacco and alcohol to send me £2 15s ( Pounds 2.75 ) a week to make ends meet . |
| 11 | Always short of money , Pound in the twenties found one outlet after another closed to him and had great difficulty making ends meet . |
| 12 | We 're also there to help when you 're having difficulty making ends meet . |
| 13 | Women are up well before dawn and may have only five or six hours sleep a night in the effort to make ends meet . |
| 14 | Most of the rainforests belong to developing countries which have to resort to milking their most precious resource to make ends meet , and to pay back money lent to them by Western countries . |
| 15 | This very year , Save The Children 's reports making ends meet and our contribution to the world health survey have enabled radical alterations to be made to the world communities practice with regard first to nutrition and food aid , particularly in East Africa and secondly to primary health care practice . |
| 16 | So , early this century , the regulatory position might be briefly summarised as protecting the minority of people driven into debt to make ends meet ; on the assumption that they faced not only hardship in itself but also particular risk of exploitation by unscrupulous lenders . |
| 17 | She is unemployed and depends upon benefits to make ends meet . |
| 18 | Farmers normally convert their farm bit by bit , in order to make ends meet until the conversion is complete . |
| 19 | Many married women whose husbands sign on for the family find themselves forced to seek work in the black economy in order to make ends meet ; this is often seen as less risky than the possibility of their husbands being caught . |
| 20 | In the fight to make ends meet , she was obliged to surround herself with people . |
| 21 | It was a dismal prospect , what with the strikes and inflation , the endless chores , the daily boredom and the uphill struggle to make ends meet ; the whole effort was of doubtful benefit and hardly worth the candle . |
| 22 | In their different ways , both absolute and relative concepts suggest that the struggle to make ends meet is fought out in and against the routines which sustain health ; in the routines of buying bones from the butcher and not buying new shoes for the children . |
| 23 | She no longer had the money to make ends meet . |
| 24 | Since having to give-up a dolls-house as a small child to help her mother make ends meet , Rosemary Gardner has always yearned to walk into a little world of her own , now , 40+ years later , she has done just that ! |
| 25 | It was no wonder that the journal had no easy task making ends meet . |
| 26 | Many also have second or third jobs to make ends meet . |
| 27 | THE Labour Party must shed jobs to make ends meet , retiring treasurer Sam McCluskie revealed . |