Example sentences of "make it [prep] while " in BNC.

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1 Their ransom would hardly make it worth while . ’
2 The railway made it worth while for Gustave : he could get to Mantes and back without too much trouble ; and Louise 's complaints perhaps seemed a reasonable price to pay for such accessible pleasure .
3 The railway made it worth while for Louise : Gustave was never really far away , however severe he sounded in his letters ; the next one would surely say that they could meet again , that only two hours separated them .
4 And the railway made it worth while for us , who can now read the letters which resulted from that prolonged erotic oscillation .
5 I blamed Hilda for it , I felt she had taken away the gamble , the risk that made it worth while .
6 Scott tried to arrange a counter address to Palmerston and obtained eighteen or nineteen names , but ‘ the Gothic architects did not come forward in sufficient force to make it worth while ’ .
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