Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | One or both of them got up early to make break&st in good time . |
| 2 | ‘ To come straight to the point , I drove down here to make a suggestion . |
| 3 | ‘ I waited up just to make sure you got back to the hotel safely . |
| 4 | Well do you think actually so to make it more What could be done to actually make it more attractive to traders ? |
| 5 | Later , brain-fatigue smearing her concentration as she tried yet again to make the balance positive : I 'm not wrong . |
| 6 | When he came back on deck she tried once more to make conversation . |
| 7 | But the detective in a detective novel is not altogether your real policeman , though you do well never to make him ( if he is a police officer ) flout details of proper police procedure . |
| 8 | So when we come up here to make a presentation let's put aside at the moment the content of what we actually say what do we what do we need to think about ? |
| 9 | Andrew Bergman told me later that when they went out there to make the deal , they felt like the expedition that goes into the jungle to bag King Kong . ’ |
| 10 | In his Politics he knew just enough to make sense of their institutions within the context of his classification . |
| 11 | All seemed to be in order , but next morning , after having trouble with one of the receivers , he went up again to make sure he had not inadvertently disturbed anything . |
| 12 | The young copper rushed bull-like at Sam , swung a terrific right which landed above the head , just displacing a lot of air ; lost his balance , fell to the ground — and as he rolled over quickly to make a scramble to his feet , Sam pounced with his booted feet . |
| 13 | Eddie Frizzell , chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service , said yesterday he wished once again to make it clear that no discussions had taken place between himself and senior colleagues , or any private sector contractor , on the possibility of managing and funding a private prison in Scotland . |