Example sentences of "make [adv] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was already beginning to fill up with French businessmen , and Jean-Paul made purposefully for a table in the window . |
| 2 | A small charge is made locally for the use of the showers . |
| 3 | These terminological changes are not made merely for the sake of variety but because I believe the substitute terms convey their meaning more pointedly than Marx 's originals . |
| 4 | Maradona , who captains the defending World Cup champions , was quoted in several Italian newspapers yesterday as saying that ‘ World Cup groups had been predetermined and the draw was made just for the fun of the television audience ’ . |
| 5 | This resembles the bar which Conrad II added to the imperial crown probably made originally for the coronation of the emperor Otto I in Rome in 962 . |
| 6 | The 33-year-old Czech-born American will almost certainly make straight for the turf at the Direct Line Insurance championships in Beckenham after being bundled out of Roland Garros by unheralded French qualifier Stephane Huet . |
| 7 | Charlotte strained her ears to hear whether he would slip out by the side door and make straight for the garage at the rear of the house for his car , but instead she heard the crisp , light rapping of his heels on the oak staircase . |
| 8 | Gloria was taking good care that she and Matthew would be seen to advantage , making straight for the centre of the group . |
| 9 | The normal recourse of exiled Spanish knights was to the nearest Moorish court , but Rodrigo made instead for the Kingdom of Barcelona . |