Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] make [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hardly had anything in the cupboard so I had to make do … |
| 2 | The literal world which she inhabited was so plainly hostile that she seized with ardour upon any references to any other mode of being ; she came across few direct ones , in that suburban and industrial spot , so she had to make do with the oblique . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the commercials company had omitted to provide a Director 's Chair , so he had to make do with a low wall . |
| 4 | He got the porter to buy him aftershave , but they did n't sell his musky expensive brand in Perth so he had to make do with a cheaper one from the tourist shop . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , they were behind schedule and I had to make do with a curry-house scene . |
| 6 | But I had not voluntarily given up my ‘ lecturing ’ ; my institute had closed on account of the Cyprus situation , and I had to make do with inadequate ‘ private means ’ , even ‘ touching capital ’ , which would have deeply shocked Ivy . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , that was finished now and she had to make do with what was to hand , ‘ Johnnie Walker ’ , which was very nice indeed thank you . |
| 8 | In 1981 , when I left , there was no surgical alcohol available and we had to make do with boiled water . |
| 9 | Once a week bath night , now we do all these dirty jobs , because next door she had her own coal Lashmere cooking you see , and we had to make do with wood , and that entails cutting it ourselves , so our weekend , we worked Saturday mornings ; Sunday used to the day we had to do all the cottage work . |
| 10 | The majority of windsurfers , though , do not enjoy the perfect conditions that are needed to perform such spectacular manoeuvres and we have to make do with much smaller and fewer well-shaped waves . |
| 11 | For example , if we chose to make see and see also references for a work on Gravity waves , the following entries could result : |
| 12 | Why , so hasty had been their recruitment that there even were n't police uniforms ready for them when they were rushed over to Ireland and they had to make do with some rag-tag-and-bobtail hotch-potch of khaki tunic and dark green trousers , supplemented with the black leather belts of the RIC . |
| 13 | The cops got coffee and cigarettes and sandwiches , but I had to make do with inhaling their used smoke . |
| 14 | Yes I 've seen hay spoilt but you had to make do with it . |
| 15 | Oh no , it is nice to have a nice car but you have to make do do n't you ? |
| 16 | Sometimes he thought that he 'd have liked nothing more than to be like Michael of the tarmac boys , gap-toothed and thick-headed and with no greater concern than that of pissing his money away at a speed roughly equal to that at which he made it , but he had to make do with the hand that he 'd been dealt — thin-skinned and solitary , one of nature 's observers . |
| 17 | As you start making toast you know |