Example sentences of "make [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made during my year a number of lasting friendships , some of which have actually turned into professional assistance in different parts of the country , and the fact that people genuinely enjoy meeting each other is shown by the annual reunions which take place , entirely at the personal expense of the individuals , which demonstrate the bond of friendship which our Institute can bring about . |
| 2 | The qualities which make a girl smart and successful at her work would similarly make for her success in the marriage market . " |
| 3 | It 's the sort of feature anyone half handy can make for their own water garden . |
| 4 | It does not make for your typical comic fare . |
| 5 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 6 | For when his job finished at night , he would make for his favourite pub(s) and spend the whole evening with his cronies , drinking , playing dominoes , and talking of the ‘ old days ’ in that far-off land of persecution and misery . |
| 7 | What provision could he make for his family during his absence ? |
| 8 | He was never at ease in large company but preferred the few friends he made through his education at Eton and Cambridge . |
| 9 | Young people frequently dismiss remarks which older people may make about their impending or eventual death . |
| 10 | If it is correct that our trilobite lived above the sea bottom , actively swimming in the water , there are certain predictions we can make about its geological occurrence which can be tested by looking in the rocks . |
| 11 | If we say that characterising the topic framework is a means of making explicit some of the assumptions a speaker can make about his hearer 's knowledge , we are not talking about the total knowledge which the speaker believes he shares with his hearer . |
| 12 | The kind of comments they made about their health were : |
| 13 | After all the fuss you made about my giving you roses , should n't you put them in water first ? ’ |
| 14 | I was thinking more about the unkind remarks you made about my trenchcoat . ’ |
| 15 | Other charges also made about his character will also have to be modified . |
| 16 | The High Court has ruled that the historian from Oxfordshire will still have to pay Lord Aldington one and a half million pounds for allegations he made about his war record . |
| 17 | Write down the claims the manufacturers make about their products . |
| 18 | Everybody made for their beds early . |
| 19 | We feel Betty Willis may well be a record-breaker with the super-size socks she made for her super-size son-in-law whose super-loud voice gave him fifth place ( out of 100 contestants ) in the 1991 world championships for Town Criers . |
| 20 | Laura , knowing how much this vehicle meant to Bernard , had a miniature of it made for her husband , which he kept in his office . |
| 21 | The knowledge which Mary made for her Son , Brigid breathed through her palms . |
| 22 | Christopher made for his favourite restaurant in his favourite town — Agen . |
| 23 | Flush with corvine visiting cards , Rolfe took up residence in Christchurch , before the fraudulent offer he made for his hosts ' house marked the end of his credit and credibility in Hampshire . |
| 24 | He made for his aircraft , walking fast . |
| 25 | Penry looked as though he was about to burst into speech for a moment , then his face set in the familiar harsh lines , and without another word he turned on his heel and made for his sanctum , slamming the door behind him . |
| 26 | However he remains unseen because Sauron can not pierce the shadows he made for his own defence . |
| 27 | But I did n't like at all the er excuses he made for his wife . |
| 28 | ‘ One will do fine for his dallta , Lachlan , but I 'll have a new one made for your heir . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll recall that the cheque you paid us was for a chest which we made for your cousin . |
| 30 | It refers in particular to the forms of sacrifice which parents make for their children to expand their genes into the ‘ gene pool ’ of the population as a whole . |