Example sentences of "make [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Many people feared involvement in popular education because it made them immediate targets of the Contras . ’
2 The Central Area pulled all these parts together , as it were , and made them interdependent portions of the whole .
3 The Iranians , of course , had little interest in vacations , but North could also make them wonderful offers in the currency they understood , TOWs : ‘ If you get the hostages out , we 'll send you a million of them . ’
4 trousers , boots , fucking the leggings , the gloves , the mask anything , he made me fucking walk into the sea .
5 ‘ I shall make my final decision in the morning , ’ she said .
6 Dadda , voyaging day by day farther out on his black sea of depression , made his one contribution to the talk .
7 They 'll make their final decision on the site later this year .
8 This is important to individual sites so that they can make their own assessment of the value to them of adopting what has been identified as best practice elsewhere .
9 In 1976 the government argued that , although it would set the ‘ broad lines of transport policies ’ , local communities would make their own decisions within the context of the national policy .
10 Photovoltaics lets those people make their own power on the spot by capturing the sun 's energy .
11 It was declared the best policy was for the ‘ sent down ’ youth to remain where they were so that they could make their valuable contribution to the motherland on the ‘ agricultural front ’ , as in previous decades .
12 He made himself some Ovaltine in the kitchen around ten-thirty p.m .
13 It will probably make its own investigations into the conflict as well .
14 KATRIN KRABBE , the double world sprint champion , will make her first appearance of the outdoor season in Germany next month , one day before the International Amateur Athletics Federation meet in Toronto to discuss the lifting of the four-year ban imposed on her because of alleged irregularities in a urine sample .
15 Although the US Strategic Air Command 's nuclear capability was already formidable , Britain should make her own contribution to the Western nuclear deterrent by giving absolute priority to the rapid build-up of the V Force in order to maintain British influence in the Atlantic Alliance , and as a hedge against isolationist tendencies in the United States .
16 She supposed she 'd take over that duty , which possibly would make her unpopular back in the lab .
17 She will make her senior debut in the Boca Raton Grand Prix , starting March 5 , and then appear in the prestigious Liptons International at Key Biscayne .
18 After reaching the semi-finals at Wimbledon and the US Open last year , Capriati did not get past the quarters at the Australian , French and Wimbledon championships and then made her earliest exit at the US Open .
19 Retaining American citizenship ( between 1904 and 1925 , she and Raymond owned a home in Florida ) , she made her final visit to the United States at the age of eighty-eight .
20 Shortly after our stepfather died , our mother , Lydia , made her first leap across the Pacific to live with a Javanese guru in Jakarta , and brought back tales which inspired our first visits to Indonesia , as delegates to a Subud conference .
21 Paula made her first appearance at the Playhouse and in Liverpool 15 years ago in JB .
22 Once again Royal show fashions ranged between formal-summer-outfit-with-hat to skimpy suntop and shorts , but the lady who turned the most heads at the show was probably international visitor Isha Kamara as she made her stately progress around the show bearing her bag upon her head .
23 She made her silent vow to the piece of wallpaper that flapped in the breeze .
24 She worked widely in the United States during the forties and fifties , playing , among other parts , Blanche in Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire , then made her English début in the West End in 1960 , playing Mrs Patrick Campbell .
25 Tom Sutcliffe 's wife not only acted as his Secretary and personal interpreter , but made her own contribution to the cause for which he worked as a teacher of sign language and an outstanding interpreter particularly in the educational field .
26 So , when Rune 's English gave way to Danish once more , she made her own translation of the words , inventing the compliments and vows she wanted to hear , feeling her pulse respond more rapidly still as his voice deepened and shook with fervour .
27 However , Tom Crilly 's best season for us was without question the 1930–31 season , when the Palace made their second assault on the 3rd Division South Championship in three years , only to finish in the runners-up position , just as we had in 1928–29 .
28 ON THIS DAY : In 1903 , the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the Kitty Hawk .
29 The three crews , all named after former Grand National winners , made their first attempt at the unsocial hour of eight in the morning .
30 She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time .
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