Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] to 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Labour tried and failed to make the election a referendum on these changes . |
| 4 | Even so , he was defeated in the City parliamentary election of 1734 and failed to make the opposition slate in 1740–1 . |
| 5 | A weight can be tied to the bar by a piece of rope and then raised and lowered to make the exercise more difficult . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In a key breakthrough , the Green Party took their first County seat in the region and pledged to make the Green voice heard . |
| 16 | This state of affairs , he said , jeopardized perestroika , unnerved the population , and threatened to make the country ungovernable . |
| 17 | After the interval , Swindon sharpened their wits and began to make the heart of United 's defence look ponderous . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Look out for over-size or deformed rounds , ’ Woolley said , and managed to make the advice sound like a curse . |
| 23 | The real limitation was time ; many students , although they enjoyed the projects , felt the pressure of looming final examinations and said that they were unable to complete their project to their own satisfaction and had to make the best of a bad job in order to work at other , equally pressing , aspects of the course . |
| 24 | Labour was in government and had to make the best of it , but the party was with a less numerous support bloc than even the Selsdon Heath of 1970 . |
| 25 | Dowd took his leave without further exchange , escorted as far as the lift by Charlotte Feaver , and left to make the descent alone . |
| 26 | But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was . |
| 27 | Fascinating to watch : how she smoothed down the shard of the totem to make it a circle , to flatten it out ; how she trimmed and chipped to make the natural lines flow ; how she scored out the eyes , the mouth ; how she touched colour with her fingers to emphasize the woman in the land , in the mask ; how the dead wood began to live and breathe . |
| 28 | Stranded cotton is the best to use because the six strands can be separated and re-combined to make the thickness you require . |
| 29 | He began mumbling in Latin , and attempted to make the sign of the Cross . |
| 30 | If the Minister attended and attempted to make the type of speech that he made here he would be laughed at . |