Example sentences of "[pers pn] make [adv] [prep] [art] " 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 | ‘ And if you 're feeling tired , what about a dose or two of that tonic you make up for the patients ? ’ |
| 7 | I watched you make off along the cliff path , as if you were making for Otters ' Bay . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 10 | One of his favourite cakes was a sticky gingerbread which she made frequently in the cold days of winter . |
| 11 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Turning from him , she made quickly for the door . |
| 14 | What are you making now by the way ? |
| 15 | Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Arm in arm they made off towards the kitchen-garden . |
| 18 | They made off with a video recorder , music centre and jewellery from the property in Turker Lane . |
| 19 | They made off with a television and a video recorder worth £550 . |
| 20 | And they make up for a curtailed visual field by being able to rotate their heads through 180° . |
| 21 | ‘ Can you honestly see him making out on the Island ? ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 25 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 26 | Oh he used to wash them and he had a proper , he had a case what he made up with a rack so as he could drop them all in . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They did not keep him long , however , and this time he made off with a companion and even had the nerve to work for three months on a French farm before starting a marathon trek across the entire length of France . |
| 30 | He made off with an undisclosed amount of cash . |