Example sentences of "making [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | making them for the next morning . |
| 2 | If this damn war ever starts , chaps like me will be , must be , uncompromising about decisions to the point of making them on the spot . |
| 3 | Three of the UK 's privatised water companies are on the National Rivers Authority 's " top 10 " prosecution list , making them among the country 's most polluting companies in terms of court fines . |
| 4 | Apprehensively , Robbie clung tightly to the tiller as he closed the gates behind them , his muscular strength making nothing of the massive balance beam which swung the heavy gates to . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's concerned with making everything about the business be about quality — from the quality of the management process , the quality of the way the operation works to the quality of manufactured products . ’ |
| 6 | Even in the early years , Piper 's percentage gave him $8,000 a year , making him amongst the highest paid men in Australia . |
| 7 | The sea mammals are well represented , with dolphin and whale ( especially the humpback whale ) in the top 10 , and the largest of the dolphins — the killer whale , or orca — also making it into the top 20 . |
| 8 | Breaking through , making it to the top and finding real success is never going to be easy , despite the well-voiced criticism of pop music being ‘ tuneless rubbish ’ . |
| 9 | Do you dream of making it to the top of the corporate tree whilst still short of the tooth and long in ideas ? |
| 10 | But victory will see them as serious threats to England 's hopes of making it to the finals in 1994 and Gullit may well take Lazio president Sergio Cragnotti 's offer to join Gazza . |
| 11 | That is when the strength of his emerging side , and England 's case for making it to the 1994 World Cup finals , will be truly tested . |
| 12 | It 's still rare to find women artists making it to the top . |
| 13 | He 's a nice boy , ’ she said tolerantly , and a shade absurdly in view of the fact that she was perhaps two years his senior , ‘ but somehow I do n't see him making it to the top . |
| 14 | Many apologies , Mark , for not making it to the pub as agreed . |
| 15 | And diamonds were a man 's best friend when it came to making it with the opposite sex . |
| 16 | He let his mind play with that again , the idea of making it on the box . |
| 17 | All wobble and tremor , the Quake just was n't making it on the Richter Scale . |
| 18 | The applicants accepted that the justices had jurisdiction to make such an order but contended that they had erred in law in making it on the facts of this case . |
| 19 | After making it across the ramp once , unable to see where the hell he was going , he slammed like a sack of spuds . |
| 20 | A lower level route is also a good option for days when you 're not feeling up to making it across the tops . |
| 21 | He lost interest after that , his plan overshadowed by the oil tanker Manhattan making it across the top of America . |
| 22 | On the other hand , if you 're making something the world wants , by making it as the lowest cost supplier , you can usually expand your work-force . |
| 23 | Diesels , thrifty and reliable , are making it in the charts , says John Langley |
| 24 | ‘ Lewis seems to be making it in the old alternative comedy scene , does n't he ? ’ |
| 25 | And let's not forget a few failed attempts at making it in the movies along the way . |
| 26 | And I 've gone off making it in the morning . |