Example sentences of "[adv] make [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that in 1945 they could not make do on their rations . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll not make do with de Guichet , ’ said Owen . |
| 3 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 4 | I 'd just as soon make do with a packed lunch . |
| 5 | Returning now to monism v. pluralism , the central issue , expressed in terms of predicates , reduces to the question whether we can somehow make do without any polyadic predicates , except perhaps those of the " reflexive " variety ? |
| 6 | I 'll make do for myself but I wo n't make do for them . |
| 7 | When Sherine Pherozshaw could n't find the party dress she wanted , she did n't make do with what was on offer in the shops . |
| 8 | A farm employing twenty workers before the war in a complex hierarchy of bailiffs , foremen , charge-hands , horsemen and day-labourers may today make do with less than five . |