Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] make the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And recent research has dramatically shown that one way for them to make the break is through the activation of cellular oncogenes — genes that are more or less inactive in normal cells hut seem to be altered or activated in tumour cells ( New Scientist , vol 96 , p418 . |
| 2 | Today the Royals can not relax for a second , can not step one foot outside their own home without being met by a barrage of photographers waiting for them to make the smallest slip . |
| 3 | I could see that it was time for me to make the tea . |
| 4 | Then I inhale long and slowly , because it 's for me to make the move . |
| 5 | It would be invidious for me to make the choice . |
| 6 | It is natural to ask … why it is that countries have Constitutions , why most of them make the Constitution superior to the ordinary law , and , further , why Britain , at any rate , has no Constitution , in this sense , at all . |
| 7 | Never before had there been as many as nine of his members in a Masters field and every one of them made the cut . |
| 8 | Thirty of them made the trip to Gulfstream Park and the best they could manage was one Irish and one French third place , both well beaten . |
| 9 | But the flow of immigrants went on , with very little space to receive the new settlers , so in 1628 some of them made the easy move from St. Kitts to Nevis , and a couple of years later made a slightly longer move and occupied the islands of Antigua and Monserrat , laying the foundations of English settlement in the Leeward Islands . |
| 10 | She never knew which one of them made the first move , but suddenly , unaccountably , she was in his arms , his hands pressing against her back to draw her closer still . |
| 11 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 12 | It was the 37-year-old writer 's fifth play after Stop It , Whoever You Are ; Big Soft Nellie ; Nil Carborundum and Kelly 's Eye , none of them making the voyage across the Atlantic . |
| 13 | Twiddling any one of them makes the colour worse ; but if all three , or perhaps just two , were adjusted simultaneously then the colour of the picture would improve . |
| 14 | There were not enough of them to make the large Greystones sitting room look as though much was going on ; people stood in small clumps , eyeing one another ; awkward silences broke out . |
| 15 | He will come and live with her , inside her , his head between her breasts ; he is fed up , he says , with masturbating that head of his to make the phrases spurt . |
| 16 | For any of you making the trip to Florida next year and finding yourselves on the Gulf Coast anywhere near St Pete 's beach , a visit to MULLIGAN 'S SUNSET GRILL must be included . |
| 17 | In his summing up the judge said that the co-defendant 's plea of guilty was not the issue and the jury knew of it to make the background accurate . |
| 18 | We go through the whole song with both of us making the noises and me doing the actions . |
| 19 | And I had a vague sense that someone was making a film of us making the film ! ) |
| 20 | All I would want is for you to make the journey into the burning , and then come back and report . |
| 21 | While it might be to your advantage to do so at the earliest opportunity , there is nevertheless no legal urgency for you to make the journey other than at your convenience . |
| 22 | But for you to make the trip just to turn me in … ’ |
| 23 | After all , you confused me with someone else , and I really should n't care for you to make the same mistake twice . |
| 24 | His lips moved , framing words , but there was no strength in him to make the air push forward and give sound to the desperate message he was trying to call … |
| 25 | The empty alejacks scattered on the table before him made the coroner look like an angry Bacchus surrounded by votive offerings . |
| 26 | As he was the only able-bodied man on the farm , it was a constant struggle for him to make the mortgage payments . |
| 27 | This in turn implies that the two generalizations already hinted at-that it was not normal practice either for the kasabat kadi to return to the medrese stream or for him to make the jump to the mevleviyet kadiliks were by then established : both are , of course , in a sense implicit in the Kanunname in so far as neither eventuality is mentioned , though , equally , neither is specifically excluded . |
| 28 | She wanted desperately to reach out to him , but she knew that she had to wait for him to make the first move . |
| 29 | Hotspur hung back from him , and let him gather himself , waited , indeed , for him to make the first assay , and put it by when it was made with the utmost care and forbearance . |
| 30 | She tried however to pin her thoughts on other matters and , recalling that Ven had only returned to Mariánské Láznë in order to pick up some papers , she realised that , since they were important enough for him to make the four-hour return journey , he must want them to hand over to someone else . |