Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] to make [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I could have gone further , I suppose — put up a bullfight poster to make Stuart feel at home but one must n't entirely submerge one 's personality , I find , otherwise one 's guests do n't know whom they 're meeting . |
| 2 | She is forced to buy things from charity shops to make ends meet . |
| 3 | Acton and Shepherd 's Bush , he said , were a long way from Islington but it had not needed the history and memory of Risinghill and William Tyndale to make headteachers alert to the damaging way in which matters of discipline , race , criminality and parental disquiet could be brought together into presentations of hot and not always accurate news . |
| 4 | Join a consumers group and lobby for government legislation to make manufacturers label their products fully and accurately . |
| 5 | There is pressure from conservationist groups to make farmers earn their pay , perhaps by building stone walls or reverting to more traditional husbandry methods . |
| 6 | That wretched obsession with time which was a hallmark of my own age had not yet set in ; there were not even railway timetables to make people conform to the clock . |
| 7 | My brother Charlie 's left 'ome an' sister Mary 's married an' Mum 'as to go out cleaning the fish an' chip shop to make ends meet . ’ |