Example sentences of "[coord] make [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We want to impress on people that they are contravening the law if they moor or make fast to navigation aids , ’ says Howard Cooper , a spokesman for Trinity House . |
| 2 | Some of the American crop were typed but their tone matched those handwritten or made up of letters and words snipped from publications . |
| 3 | It also tells us whether the unknown letter is a single segment letter , or made up from a combination of two segments . |
| 4 | If you are using brick slips to cover a large arch in the same room , the soffit can be nailed below the arch , but set back about 25mm higher , or made flush with the arch , so that brick slips can be stuck around the face , or both face and soffit , to match the main arch . |
| 5 | For this was not the anger of the cripple , who can never be sure if he has been shaped by some vengeful god or made accidentally by a purposeless universe . |
| 6 | In the Yorkshire parish of Arksey , however , the vicar wrote in the register for 1729 : ‘ The greatest mortality that ever can be remembered , or made out to be ’ , and many other accounts speak of considerable distress . |
| 7 | New words are coined or borrowed or made out of combined parts from existing words ; the meanings of old words gradually shift . |
| 8 | Cards and boxes can either be bought from a stationer or made out of ordinary file paper and shoe boxes ! |
| 9 | It is interesting to note that some , if not all , of this initial stimulus work can be recorded and made available individually for refreshing the memory , checking particular phenomena or making up for absence . |
| 10 | This has become so serious a concern that early in 1991 , less than a year before their latest deadline for the launch of CD-I , Philips themselves established their own CD-I publishing operation , perhaps in an effort to energise CD-I disc investment or to make up for the lack of it . |
| 11 | Charlotte strained her ears to hear whether he would slip out by the side door and make straight for the garage at the rear of the house for his car , but instead she heard the crisp , light rapping of his heels on the oak staircase . |
| 12 | The men would run up the outside staircases and make straight for that . |
| 13 | Rub through sieve , pour into sugar syrup and make up to 1.15 litres ( 2 pints ) with extra water . |
| 14 | According to the newspaper , the organisation has ‘ cut its budget by $9 million , is to sell the biggest of its seven ships and make up to 25 per cent of its 500 campaigners redundant ’ . |
| 15 | Falling donations have forced Greenpeace International to cut its 1993 budget from $36 million to $27 million , sell the largest of its seven ships , and make up to a quarter of its 500 campaigners redundant . |
| 16 | However , if farms remain profitable , yield-increasing technologies tend to mask the effect of soil degradation and erosion and make up for declines in fertility that would have occurred if land had been cultivated with a constant level of technology . |
| 17 | St Albans held on for the rest of the match to win 2–1 and take the ladies ' title for the second time and make up for four previous final defeats by Mutineers . |
| 18 | She realized he was trying to lead the conversation away from her husband , to be kind and make up for his blunder . |
| 19 | It was to salve her conscience , she thought , and make up for her obsessional preoccupation with Nick Frazer . |
| 20 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |
| 21 | Musically — forget it , but the spot effects are great and make up for the poor acoustic tones . |
| 22 | Oil demand will grow by less than 10% and make up about one-third of consumption in the year 2000 . |
| 23 | Women are severely under-represented in the urban trade union movement and make up under one-quarter of the total membership . |
| 24 | So it 's often sheer neglect on the part of the home owner that allows the thief to gain entry , and make off with your treasured possessions . |
| 25 | They 're cheeky enough to approach a picnic party for scraps of food , then snatch a teaspoon and make off with it . ’ |
| 26 | Gather up your belongings and make calmly for the door . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , for me , I reckon I can run and swim , and make out on the shooting if I put my mind to it , but the riding — well — I do n't know about the riding . ’ |
| 28 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 29 | And now , I I almost felt empty when she died , and I did n't have anybody to care for that really needed me all the time so I I , wanted to help out at a local dementia centre to try and make up for it and to pass on |
| 30 | Let me try and make up for my son 's suspicions ? |