Example sentences of "[pron] had make [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hardly had anything in the cupboard so I had to make do … |
| 2 | Unfortunately , they were behind schedule and I had to make do with a curry-house scene . |
| 3 | But I had not voluntarily given up my ‘ lecturing ’ ; my institute had closed on account of the Cyprus situation , and I had to make do with inadequate ‘ private means ’ , even ‘ touching capital ’ , which would have deeply shocked Ivy . |
| 4 | But it was her last film and after that I had to make do with Jean Simmons in Desirée . |
| 5 | I had to make do with stewing the old tea leaves . |
| 6 | In the rue Victorie , lacking a refriger-ator , I had to make do with the window-sill and milk-and butter-coolers . |
| 7 | I just liked the sound of being a musician but , for a while , I had to make do with being a fireman . |
| 8 | The cops got coffee and cigarettes and sandwiches , but I had to make do with inhaling their used smoke . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , that was finished now and she had to make do with what was to hand , ‘ Johnnie Walker ’ , which was very nice indeed thank you . |
| 10 | The literal world which she inhabited was so plainly hostile that she seized with ardour upon any references to any other mode of being ; she came across few direct ones , in that suburban and industrial spot , so she had to make do with the oblique . |
| 11 | Some communities provided a communal hot kosher meal at noon for Jewish children , who had to make do with cold vegetables and bread for breakfast and dinner . |
| 12 | Yes I 've seen hay spoilt but you had to make do with it . |
| 13 | In my climbing heyday we had to make do mostly with faith and a little friction . |
| 14 | In 1981 , when I left , there was no surgical alcohol available and we had to make do with boiled water . |
| 15 | Fuel was difficult to come by after we left the forest , and when we reached the plains that stretched to the Webi Shebeli we had to make do with dry cattle dung . |
| 16 | We had to make do with a water-taxi . ’ |
| 17 | Once a week bath night , now we do all these dirty jobs , because next door she had her own coal Lashmere cooking you see , and we had to make do with wood , and that entails cutting it ourselves , so our weekend , we worked Saturday mornings ; Sunday used to the day we had to do all the cottage work . |
| 18 | Why , so hasty had been their recruitment that there even were n't police uniforms ready for them when they were rushed over to Ireland and they had to make do with some rag-tag-and-bobtail hotch-potch of khaki tunic and dark green trousers , supplemented with the black leather belts of the RIC . |
| 19 | In the event they had to make do with a water-taxi . |
| 20 | Unfortunately the commercials company had omitted to provide a Director 's Chair , so he had to make do with a low wall . |
| 21 | He got the porter to buy him aftershave , but they did n't sell his musky expensive brand in Perth so he had to make do with a cheaper one from the tourist shop . |
| 22 | Sometimes he thought that he 'd have liked nothing more than to be like Michael of the tarmac boys , gap-toothed and thick-headed and with no greater concern than that of pissing his money away at a speed roughly equal to that at which he made it , but he had to make do with the hand that he 'd been dealt — thin-skinned and solitary , one of nature 's observers . |