Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] make the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dust lay thickly over the cracked flagstone floor and only when I ascended a dangerous staircase did I find a solitary reminder of the business that helped to make the Damianis one of the richest Arab families in Jaffa . |
| 2 | It had not , as it turned out , been Jim that had made the happiness for her , but the house itself . |
| 3 | It was a bright , crisp dawn , and Doyle was hopeful of a bright , crisp day , without rain , and without the freezing winds that had made the previous days so miserable and debilitating . |
| 4 | He toyed with the time of Munich , the decisions and failures to decide that had made the world he lived in . |
| 5 | He found the two armoured personnel carriers that had made the four-track trails , four Jeeps , five cross-country motor bikes and two army trucks in the first hangar . |
| 6 | Shown a pile of apples and two trees , one with three apples and one with none , and asked to make the ‘ empty ’ tree so it had more , children added apples until there were more on the empty tree . |
| 7 | Labour tried and failed to make the election a referendum on these changes . |
| 8 | Even so , he was defeated in the City parliamentary election of 1734 and failed to make the opposition slate in 1740–1 . |
| 9 | A weight can be tied to the bar by a piece of rope and then raised and lowered to make the exercise more difficult . |
| 10 | It is , therefore , proven that a combi-steaner is not only an advantage in the commercial kitchen , but an essential ingredient designed and built to make the chef 's life easier and to realise dramatic savings so that it quickly pays for itself . |
| 11 | That low , dishonest decade was when we broke free of our parents , banished the Fifties , discovered that we 'd missed the Sixties , and tried to make the best of it with an orgy of revolting clothes , tasteless music and formless anomie . |
| 12 | The girl threw caution to the wind and tried to make the most of every minute via sex , drink , numerous abortions , and late-night revels . |
| 13 | She screamed for her brother and tried to make the boys understand that she was the daughter of the house , but her pleas did not register in their drugged minds . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , it was something like a castle , and he 'ad tons of servants and a butler as well , and a sister who was secretly a witch and tried to make the poor girl worship Satan , but — ’ |
| 15 | When the office lifers came the next day and tried to make the computer come up with some figures they wanted , what it printed out was this poet 's poetry instead . |
| 16 | It was strange how good and bad could run into each other , could appear as interchangeable : not the good of succouring the sick , nor the bad of shooting the helpless , but in the subtler regions of morality where things blended together and seemed to make the business of living easier . |
| 17 | Dorothy Hardisty , General Secretary of the RCM , knew the problem and advised making the best of it : |
| 18 | I think we 've all gradually come to terms with Jennifer 's condition and learnt to make the best of it … but … ’ she stared at her telephone as it suddenly rang , her thoughts obviously far away ‘ … but I do n't think I 'll ever forgive David Markham for the way he treated her , ’ she said at last as she stretched out her hand to answer the phone . |
| 19 | Although I denied being ill and scorned to make the demands for attention usually employed by invalids or malingerers , there is no doubt that I was by this time making a bid for power . |
| 20 | In a key breakthrough , the Green Party took their first County seat in the region and pledged to make the Green voice heard . |
| 21 | This state of affairs , he said , jeopardized perestroika , unnerved the population , and threatened to make the country ungovernable . |
| 22 | After the interval , Swindon sharpened their wits and began to make the heart of United 's defence look ponderous . |
| 23 | In perfect unison , based on long marital experience and an infinitesimal twitch of the eyebrows , Desmond and Margaret Seymour-Strachey rose from their chairs and began making the ritual noises . |
| 24 | It is natural that some of these stories were developed and adapted to make the message of the Gospel relevant to people of differing backgrounds to the Jews . |
| 25 | ‘ I was given a good speaking part and enjoyed making the film . |
| 26 | Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world . |
| 27 | It was Jo who recognised the value of the ‘ minefield of memories ’ we had stirred up and made visible , and decided to make the work public . |
| 28 | McMaster moved from the seaside to take up a new teaching post in Drumahoe near Londonderry last week , and decided to make the break with the club he has served so well for a decade . |
| 29 | ‘ Look out for over-size or deformed rounds , ’ Woolley said , and managed to make the advice sound like a curse . |
| 30 | Out of his family 's travails he helped to make a fastness of domestic security — Cis , Ifor and the barricades of brothers , sisters , cousins , aunts , ever-open houses … out of the outwardly unpromising landscape of a war-battered , low-waged steel , coal and chapel culture he took a fine voice , musical knowledge , a skill in many sports , a love for learning : and he never forgot that a few shillings would and did make the difference between dignity and pity , poverty and decent comfort . |