Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] make the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Chorley , Manager Tony Willis said , ‘ It 's not every day a branch celebrates such an anniversary so we intend to make the most of it ! ’ |
| 2 | We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it . |
| 3 | Real bargains … so if you want to make the most of your summer , send off your orders now and , if you 're not completely satisfied , we 'll give you your money back . |
| 4 | If you aim to make the most of your garden by building a patio , Rocstone has a variety of paving . |
| 5 | Elizabeth Adams : ‘ I think perhaps I did not require from Somerville as much as I might here , fromJean Stanier : ‘ Somehow the fact that it was wartime put a sharper edge on things , as if we had to make the most of something that might not last ’ . |
| 6 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 7 | They will need to check whether they have made the same amount of each and if they are not able to count , then they can correspond one-to-one ‘ tops ’ with ‘ bottoms ’ . |
| 8 | But the white-and-holy showed them off like prized exhibits , for they liked to make the most of their scanty history . |