Example sentences of "[pers pn] make for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to make a development of a circular pedestal table that we made for a client last year . |
| 2 | Oh , by the way , ’ Luke said , locking the door behind them , ‘ Bob Tilling in Accounts just happened to mention the other day that you had settled an invoice for a piece we made for a client in Sherwood Forest . ’ |
| 3 | Stopping , slowing and playing are the diplomatic solutions , but multiplied by the numbers of dogs in most local parks , they make for a badly interrupted run . |
| 4 | When disturbed , they make for a crevice or hole where they can jam themselves in so tight with their powerful claws that it is almost impossible to dislodge them . |
| 5 | They are very happy places and they make for a lot of happiness with parents too I think . |
| 6 | Controllers urged him to make for a remote runway which would take him over fields and small villages . |
| 7 | He made for a line of scrub between two gates and waited until the street outside was fairly clear , then climbed the railings and dropped down . |
| 8 | As soon as we had cleared customs he made for a bank of telephones , and when he rejoined me he was smiling . |
| 9 | They were n't so much being difficult as simply teasing , and it made for a very amusing if unproductive hour . |
| 10 | This was popular for warships but it made for a heavy hull . |
| 11 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 12 | Perhaps it made for a safer relationship if , instead of arguing to a standstill , the party who felt herself misunderstood took her grievance elsewhere and satiated it in transgression . |
| 13 | It made for a somewhat strained atmosphere , but as a company they were used to that . |
| 14 | It made for a magnificent setting that culminated in that miracle of Verdi 's old age , the choral fugue that ends the opera , here sung with brilliant clarity and precision . |
| 15 | It makes for a pleasant evening that reminds us once again of the slimline precision of Coward 's comic dialogue and his habit of rendering heterosexual love in terms of recriminatory bickering . |
| 16 | It makes for a quick and easy way out of their alliance . |
| 17 | In the first place , he says ‘ it makes for a directness of relationship between symbol and referent ’ . |
| 18 | Cos it makes for a lot of you know if you do n't have and say well I 'm not going to put in my feet anyway . |
| 19 | At weekends it makes for a good day 's outing to take the family for a picnic , after which they can gather as many strawberries as they want at the various fruit farms dotted around . |