Example sentences of "[vb past] make [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to make out from the hill , as she jogged down the track , whether the ferryboat was plying among the craft in the harbour . |
| 2 | The cripple turned to make off into the undergrowth and as he did so there was a twang from Marian 's bow and one of his crutches spun from under him and he was down one-sidedly . |
| 3 | They confirmed to make up to a thousand different messages You know that Chinese shop in Woking ? |
| 4 | We often got into trouble with foreign seamen that came there and they started making up to the Chinamen 's wives . |
| 5 | somebody bought in large quantities er in Finland and started making up in a factory in Harlow erm , at one time , erm , they 're all a bit |
| 6 | It was lads from Garforth who stole the 1829 pole , but a group from Aberford managed to make off with the top half in 1907 . |
| 7 | Hampstead had been purchased with the now substantial royalties from Paul 's books , also the first excursion Dinah had made on to the stage since her marriage and the birth of three children . |
| 8 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 9 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |
| 10 | It was too late , I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking Mr Broadhurst 's unusual caduceus , the one he had made out of an old TV aerial garnished with flex , and I could n't prevent myself from reading on : |
| 11 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 12 | I had to make up for the ravages of time . |
| 13 | They looked into one another 's eyes , and kissed with a great tenderness , as though they had to make up for the anger last time . |
| 14 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |