Example sentences of "[pron] to make the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Archer was said to have become especially depressive when starving himself to make the required weight . |
| 2 | I was able to buy a small car in which to make the fifteen-minute drive to the campus each day . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the race is on among the other cosmetic companies to come up with even more original ways of helping you to make the right make-up choices . |
| 4 | After all , you confused me with someone else , and I really should n't care for you to make the same mistake twice . |
| 5 | But I do n't want you to make the same mistakes the French make here . |
| 6 | I like to put a pale colour behind a darkish one to make the dark colour stand out more and a dark colour dropped in just at one point behind a light colour to make the paleness improve . |
| 7 | Hotspur hung back from him , and let him gather himself , waited , indeed , for him to make the first assay , and put it by when it was made with the utmost care and forbearance . |
| 8 | If he was at all interested it was up to him to make the first move . |
| 9 | She wanted desperately to reach out to him , but she knew that she had to wait for him to make the first move . |
| 10 | 1.59 The third ground for defending an application is that the defendant from whom the interim payment is sought is not a person who appears to the court to fall within one of the categories listed in Ord 29 , r11(2) , namely : ( a ) a person who is insured in respect of the plaintiff 's claim ; ( b ) a public authority ; or ( c ) a person whose means and resources are such as to enable him to make the interim payment . |
| 11 | He might decide to cross-examine both of us in an attempt to detect inconsistencies in our replies , or hope for some slip-up on our part which might enable him to make the correct identification . |
| 12 | She tried however to pin her thoughts on other matters and , recalling that Ven had only returned to Mariánské Láznë in order to pick up some papers , she realised that , since they were important enough for him to make the four-hour return journey , he must want them to hand over to someone else . |
| 13 | His family claim he was badly concussed and the RAF were guilty of negligence when they allowed him to make the second jump . |
| 14 | Mr Byron Butler , 52 , the chairman , told him to make the necessary adjustments out of court before proceeding with sentencing in a drink-drive case . |
| 15 | If the hon. Gentleman genuinely thinks that services that are contracted out are of lower quality than those done in house , I invite him to make the short journey between the London boroughs of Lambeth and Wandsworth . |
| 16 | Then it would be up to him to make the next move . |
| 17 | And waited for her to make the next move . |
| 18 | But nor was it every day that in broad daylight — given that the light was n't all that good — that she stood in what was now quite heavy rain getting soaked while her amorous swain waited for her to make the next move . |
| 19 | Abdesselam told the press on July 27 that the elimination of corruption remained a high priority and that " those who paid the price for the measures that have been taken so far are the youth … let no one expect me to make the deprived masses pay any more " . |
| 20 | He even managed to do some work in front of the Greek television cameras , so enabling me to make the Central Television programme ‘ At Home with Costakis in Athens ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ It also helps me to make the right decisions … |
| 22 | Does it enable them to make the right choice in the heat of the moment ? |
| 23 | It is up to them to make the first move . ’ |
| 24 | Greenwich was set up as a new meridian which would suit the astronomers ' convenience , and the government relied on them to make the new meridian into a suitable base-line for calculating the longitude . |
| 25 | Today the Royals can not relax for a second , can not step one foot outside their own home without being met by a barrage of photographers waiting for them to make the smallest slip . |
| 26 | There were not enough of them to make the large Greystones sitting room look as though much was going on ; people stood in small clumps , eyeing one another ; awkward silences broke out . |
| 27 | We all want to hear our distinguished visitor who has come to us to make the final arrangements with those going to Eretz — and with any others who might want to go , too ; there 's still plenty of time , it 's never too late . |
| 28 | Acknowledging this interdependence allows us to make the courageous leap of ‘ letting in ’ the fetus , of rejecting the idea that it is simply a clump of cells , of taking it into our moral accounting and allowing it to make some claim on our attentions . |