Example sentences of "make [noun pl] [coord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can make tracks and footmarks in the snow , and on finding footmarks can guess which way the person who made them was going . |
| 2 | Well a little more , in future ask travels for the earliest make changes and deal with the future and again this is remarkable that only sixty five per cent absolutely endorse that but our potentials in the , if you look at the next examples , forty four we are told here were in favour of the strategy and thirty six per cent opposed . |
| 3 | He can make suggestions and harangue in the man 's council meeting , but he can not order people into action . |
| 4 | You can make connections or deals on the floor , but you know that it 's over that expense-account lunch , or in the private suite , the yacht , that real money is changing hands . |
| 5 | He made detours and slept in the open , ‘ once in an abandoned wagon , which was white with frost the next morning . ’ |
| 6 | A Spanish recruit I had been playing poker against started making faces and gesturing behind the Padre 's back , when suddenly , without taking his eyes off the Frenchman to whom he had been talking , the priest jerked his elbow backwards into the Spaniard 's face , slamming him against an oven . |
| 7 | When we have left behind the turbulence of adolescence and shed some of the more harrowing demands of responsibility for making careers and caring for the next generation , we may seek opportunities to assess our lives and face its later stages with some serenity . |
| 8 | Women are doing what they can in the controlled zones — this means anything from making tortillas and looking after the kids to political and military work . |
| 9 | The children should be allowed to make things or play with the wood as they wish , but other materials may extend the possibility for experiment . |
| 10 | Many illustrations described as woodcuts are not , strictly speaking , woodcuts at all since , from about 1830 , it became common to make stereotypes and electrotypes from the original wood blocks , which would stand up to only comparatively small editions . |