Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd better make their minds up quickly whether he was in charge or not . |
| 2 | Analyses of Chinese statues and coins show that they did not make much use of brass until about the sixteenth century AD . |
| 3 | But that if they did not make progress we were going to be in a really difficult situation which might have military overtones as well . |
| 4 | Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that . |
| 5 | ‘ They had talked openly of their respective marital difficulties at Sandringham last Christmas , although the Duchess insists that they did not make a pact by which they would both end their marriages this year . ’ |
| 6 | As has been argued already , most students believed that there was an answer , that physics did provide certainty ; and they did not make philosophical connections between the ideas of modern physics and the existence or otherwise of absolute truths about the universe . |
| 7 | They may have done so , but they did not make it clear that they had . |
| 8 | They mainly lived by the sea , making the crossing to Liamuiga with catches of lambie conch and spiny lobster , parrot- and butterfly- and damsel-fish from the shady eaves of the coral reef , sea urchins and grouper and eel , to exchange against cloth and vessels and other useful goods they did not make themselves as yet . |
| 9 | They did not make any hurry about it and Balor writhed and flailed helplessly and blood began to run out on to the ground beneath him . |
| 10 | But they were never ones for the tilling of the soil ; and they did not make great hunters . |
| 11 | However , despite some change in secondary selection , it remains the case , most remarkably , that though wartime and free education made the arguments of economy , fairness and impartiality more applicable they did not make them universally acceptable . |
| 12 | If they did not make it they were excluded from the event . |
| 13 | They did n't make me part of their discussions . |
| 14 | ‘ It seems they did n't make it . ’ |
| 15 | If they did n't make the offering — if they plundered the god 's territory without his permission — he 'd punish their families with sickness or even death . |
| 16 | Years ago I used to do isometric exercises because they did n't make me puff and they seemed easy . |
| 17 | Also , they insisted that ‘ Sandinista ’ and ‘ London Calling ’ were issued at budget price , meaning they did n't make any money out of them . |
| 18 | What they did n't make was a meal . |
| 19 | So they did n't make the grade ? |
| 20 | If the level of foreign news keeps up it will turn again to its shareholders , says Mathews , adding that in that event : ‘ I would be very surprised indeed if they did n't make more resources available . |
| 21 | They did n't make things but they was responsible for moving things about . |
| 22 | They did n't make him redundant this time , they just sank the ships he was on . |
| 23 | They did n't make me wash my hair which I was very grateful for as I hate having to wash my hair in the bath . |
| 24 | And they had a big tt gas engine there with a great big flywheel and you can see these machines today , they did n't make them round , they used to make them flat . |
| 25 | They did n't make owd bones . |
| 26 | They did n't make owd bones ! |
| 27 | They did n't make a spectacle of themselves . |
| 28 | She was surprised to notice that they did n't make for either of London 's airports ; rather they seemed to be flying west into the rapidly darkening sky . |
| 29 | If they did n't make it then nothing mattered . |
| 30 | they 've crashed them , they did n't make many of them . |