Example sentences of "to make [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The problem is going to get much larger , and it is not good enough simply to make money out of the rush to home ownership .
2 It has to tell the world openly that the mid-range machine is its chosen contender as the central repository for the 21st century , and above all make convincing its commitment to the AS/400 by rushing out top end machines that are much bigger than the present top model while instituting a crash programme to slash the costs of manufacture — and then slash them again , work out how to make money out of the machine while charging much less for the software — and making all the remaining System 36 users an offer they ca n't refuse to convert to the AS/400 , even if every sale to that base is a dead loss to IBM .
3 Anything Crabb 's fiancée , Mrs Rose , might claim would be quietly denigrated by a smear campaign alleging she was hysterical , mentally disturbed , or anxious to make money out of the affair by selling her story to the press .
4 When the Duke of Montrose arranged for his own appointment as bailie of the regality of Glasgow in the winter of 1714/15 , in order to prevent the office from being obtained by his rival the Duke of Argyll , the object was not to make money out of the profits of the court but to increase the duke 's influence in the city of Glasgow .
5 Meanwhile Tottenham celebrated bouncing out of the red as they banked nearly £6m from the sale of former Magpie Paul Gascoigne and immediately announced new plans to make money out of the midfield wizard .
6 You tried to make patterns out of the flowers and ribbons on the wallpaper .
7 But our two leaders had bitten off more than they could chew when they tried to make leaders out of the rest of us .
8 This was something of an exaggeration , and paleontologists made serious mistakes when reconstructing the more bizarre species from the older rocks , but only the anatomist could hope to make sense out of the discoveries .
9 The horror felt for or against the censorship is less than the feeling for the opportunity it provides to make capital out of the situation .
10 Celsus deals with a testator who has instituted his daughter heir , and left a legacy in favour of one of his freedman who is charged with a trust to make property over to the testator 's concubine .
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