Example sentences of "[noun] to make 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 | ‘ And I know of one Darlington school which is running a lottery to make ends meet . |
| 8 | Father had given up tobacco and alcohol to send me £2 15s ( Pounds 2.75 ) a week to make ends meet . |
| 9 | Women are up well before dawn and may have only five or six hours sleep a night in the effort to make ends meet . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She is unemployed and depends upon benefits to make ends meet . |
| 13 | Farmers normally convert their farm bit by bit , in order to make ends meet until the conversion is complete . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the fight to make ends meet , she was obliged to surround herself with people . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She no longer had the money to make ends meet . |
| 19 | Many also have second or third jobs to make ends meet . |
| 20 | THE Labour Party must shed jobs to make ends meet , retiring treasurer Sam McCluskie revealed . |