Example sentences of "[adv] make [noun sg] [prep] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 2 | In his Politics he knew just enough to make sense of their institutions within the context of his classification . |
| 3 | But the parishes , and the parish missions , were central to the care of souls ; and their ministers ought always to be refreshing themselves in the truths of the Christian faith , so that they do not slip ‘ into versions of it which miss its height and depth and wonder ’ ; and those ministers ought always to make room in their lives for silence and the chance of realizing their nearness to eternity . |
| 4 | In the context of reproduction , males make use of weapons ( teeth , horns , etc. ) in competitive encounters with male rivals and also make use of their courtship display characteristics in the presence of females in order the attract them . |
| 5 | Others continue the hostility into adulthood and never make peace with their brothers and sisters — a phenomenon called sibling rivalry . |
| 6 | We need to see teaching , therefore , not as the transmission of pre-existing knowledge to passive recipients , but rather as the provision of opportunities for children to continue to exercise their in-built drive actively to make sense of their experience and , thereby , to gain understanding of , and control over , the world in which they live . |