Example sentences of "[pron] make [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know what the others did but I made straight towards the front of the packed train , threading an unsteady way through seemingly endless sleeping cars ( passing my own berth ) , through the still busy central dining car , the full and raucous open-seat dayniter , three more sleeping cars , the crowded dome car ( dining room , kitchen , lounge , observation deck ) , another sleeping car , and finally reaching the horses . |
| 2 | I made straight for the curtains , and he went by me without noticing . |
| 3 | I refer with er councillor to the remarks I made earlier about the tr the post of the trade union , I do n't propose to say any more on that . |
| 4 | I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue . |
| 5 | What Bennet did not tell the conference was that he had designed special shrouds for the exhaust ports , and his Group engineer had them made up in the local village smithy . |
| 6 | I would always try and choose pieces which I thought had a bit of atmosphere and mood , a passion which made up for the lack of presentation ! ’ |
| 7 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 8 | Last week Mr Harper 's brother Paul offered a £500 reward for information leading to the conviction of the four-man gang which made off with the £3,000 haul . |
| 9 | ‘ And if you 're feeling tired , what about a dose or two of that tonic you make up for the patients ? ’ |
| 10 | I watched you make off along the cliff path , as if you were making for Otters ' Bay . |
| 11 | Mrs Chalk was nowhere to be found , so she made straight for the medicine cupboard in the spacious Georgian-style kitchen with its enormous , old-fashioned white-painted cupboards and scrubbed-elm table , and located the painkillers , swallowing the dosage with water before setting about making the tea . |
| 12 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 13 | One of his favourite cakes was a sticky gingerbread which she made frequently in the cold days of winter . |
| 14 | With a winning smile at a rather bemused young man , she dragged him up to dance , and every time she saw Feargal she made off in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | Turning from him , she made quickly for the door . |
| 16 | Niven Jr was tied up by two gunmen , who made off with the haul belonging to Elizabeth Adams . |
| 17 | One of his two sixes off left-arm spinner henry went out of the ground , and play was held up while police vainly chased a thief who made off with the ball . |
| 18 | What are you making now by the way ? |
| 19 | Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time . |
| 20 | Four fifty million , erm between programme re-orientation and other factors was an apportionment we made back in the er first half of nineteen ninety three and in the light of later information I think we would revise that now erm we are still negotiating with the contractors on the revised contract price and we do not have definitive costs yet but in fact the cost increase as a result of the rescheduling of the programme directly should be quite modest . |
| 21 | ‘ He had another one made later at the Mandarin Hotel , but the first one made him something of a laughing stock . ’ |
| 22 | But following your argument that would indicate that the image we have now is a concocted one made up by the press to a large extent . |
| 23 | They are separate forms , neither one made out of the other . |
| 24 | Arm in arm they made off towards the kitchen-garden . |
| 25 | ‘ Can you honestly see him making out on the Island ? ’ |
| 26 | He soon calmed down , then went across and fussed over her to make up for the rumpus , though it had n't bothered her in the slightest . |
| 27 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 28 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 29 | Yesterday , he said he ‘ forgot ’ about the trip which he made shortly after the break-up of his second marriage to Dr Who actress Janet Fielding . |
| 30 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |