Example sentences of "[adv] make [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | B : You 'd better make straight for the bank , otherwise you 'll be too late . |
| 2 | There were more than a few ‘ One Sergeant Wilko ’ and similar chants during the evening , perhaps making up for the heat-of-the-moment bollocking he got at Anfield for taking off a very industrious Rod Wallace . |
| 3 | The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch . |
| 4 | Although people were allowed to eat other foods freely , in fact when they were deprived of their refined carbohydrates they tended not to increase their intake of these alternative foods very much — not enough to make up for the calories they were saving . |
| 5 | But that one painted notice is not enough to make up for the shabby doors , scruffy brickwork , and grimy frosted glass . |
| 6 | It 's actually mostly made up of the skeletons of billions of tiny sea creatures . |
| 7 | Linseed oil is mostly made out of the seeds of the lin linen plant . |
| 8 | Just make fast to the buoy . ’ |
| 9 | During the Cultural Revolution , Mao had attempted to eliminate this ‘ new elite ’ , largely made up of the children of urban intellectuals and well-placed party officials . |
| 10 | In addition , a prominent counter-melody is introduced ( itself largely made up of the small cell of our example ) . |
| 11 | Epogam capsules contained 500 mg of evening primrose oil , largely made up of the n6 series EFAs linoleic ( 321 mg ) and gamma-linolenic acid ( 40 mg ) . |
| 12 | ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 13 | He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 14 | Often ill-informed and repetitive , the debate has tended to ignore the interests of the client and has frequently been conducted by those whose minds are already made up on the issue . |
| 15 | See , and I 've just made out of the stomach . |
| 16 | Fitness was , as ever , a big problem and is a deficiency which will not be easily made up during the Championship . |
| 17 | The award of the medal is accompanied by a cash prize and is normally made annually to the candidate who , in the opinion of Analytical Division Council , has made the greatest contribution , and whose work has made the most significant impact on any branch of analytical chemistry . |
| 18 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 19 | Once she was out of her chair I should not like to keep her hanging about , and I can always make straight for the Ladies at Harvey Nicholls [ sic ] . |
| 20 | Contributions are usually made entirely by the company , and can be varied from year to year . |
| 21 | That will be the second biggest rights issue ever made in in the UK , lagging only behind the ill-fated BP issue in 1987 . |
| 22 | ‘ It is worth many thousands of Australian dollars so that will partly make up for the disappointment . |
| 23 | By the way they 're also made up for the following week as well in case , if it 's Tuesday night , oh , let me just look at next week , what have I got ? |
| 24 | This resembles the bar which Conrad II added to the imperial crown probably made originally for the coronation of the emperor Otto I in Rome in 962 . |
| 25 | It was difficult to see what she was offering at first but as I took them from her I saw they were credit cards , an Access and a Visa , both made out in the name of Mrs J. A. Scamp . |
| 26 | Since those recommendations are now made shortly after the trial , there will no longer be additional material such as reports on the prisoner 's subsequent behaviour , which would in any event be irrelevant to the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 27 | After that tour , Western Province employed both myself and Graham Gooch for two winters , which partially made up for the fees we lost by not being able to tour with England during the three-year Test ban . |
| 28 | It sniffed the air then made straight for the drum . |
| 29 | As soon as the bell goes for the start of school we go to our tutor group rooms to drop off our bags and coats and then make straight for the hall . |
| 30 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |