Example sentences of "[was/were] make [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 They were making it from a tin of clams , a tin of sweetcorn , garlic and a carton of double cream .
2 ‘ They are based on a freelance design and one of the main things was make them with a view to easy maintenance , ’ explained Mr Blackhurst .
3 THOMAS PENNANT in his " Tour in Scotland " 1772 writes , " A present was made me of a clach clun ceilach , or cock-knee stone , believed to be obtained out of that part of the bird ; but I have unluckily forgotten its virtues .
4 THOMAS PENNANT in his " Tour in Scotland " 1772 writes , " A present was made me of a clach clun ceilach , or cock-knee stone , believed to be obtained out of that part of the bird ; but I have unluckily forgotten its virtues .
5 Dean was making it as a star before Hopper was .
6 The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays .
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