Example sentences of "make [pron] worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation has made them worth as little as 1/2p . |
| 2 | Silvikrin may not be the first to introduce a two-in-one shampoo and conditioner , but they have certainly made it worth the wait . |
| 3 | But what undermined him in office , and made him worth hearing out of it , was his surprise at becoming Prime Minister in the first place — Rab Butler shared that — so that , he agreed , he never quite suppressed a sense of the absurdity of his position . |
| 4 | This alone can make it worth a reporter 's time to come along . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll make it worth your while , honey . ’ |
| 6 | Benefits such as good facilities can make it worth travelling farther ; it 's amazing how a well-designed yard can cut down on working time . |
| 7 | I 'll make it worth your while . ’ |
| 8 | Your long-term goals may make it worth sacrificing your two weeks in Turkey for a training course . |
| 9 | ‘ It would make it worth getting up in the morning . ’ |
| 10 | Do you think I wo n't make it worth your while ? ’ |
| 11 | Their ransom would hardly make it worth while . ’ |
| 12 | But tonight on the Gerry Anderson television show will make it worth the wait . |
| 13 | The catalogue of the earlier Italian schools was written by Martin Davies , and published in 1951. the strength of the gallery 's holding of works by Giovanni Bellini made it worth the author 's while to write a preliminary note about difficulties of attribution : |
| 14 | What made it worth recording several centuries later was that Ella was successful ; for the next fifteen years or so he established his authority in the south by force of arms , firmly ‘ pacifying ’ recalcitrant Britons . |
| 15 | The railway made it worth while for Gustave : he could get to Mantes and back without too much trouble ; and Louise 's complaints perhaps seemed a reasonable price to pay for such accessible pleasure . |
| 16 | The railway made it worth while for Louise : Gustave was never really far away , however severe he sounded in his letters ; the next one would surely say that they could meet again , that only two hours separated them . |
| 17 | And the railway made it worth while for us , who can now read the letters which resulted from that prolonged erotic oscillation . |
| 18 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's name coming to the forefront of the picture so unexpectedly made it worth looking more closely at him — in the past as well as the present . |
| 19 | He was n't sure if Christine believed him , but that was what made it worth it , gave things an edge , the bluff in a game where the rest were always against you . |
| 20 | I blamed Hilda for it , I felt she had taken away the gamble , the risk that made it worth while . |
| 21 | This would all have been uninhabited malarial marshland until the post-war boom made it worth draining . |
| 22 | Citizenship presumably had certain advantages which made it worth a man 's while taking it up , but in a period of increasing civic oligarchy one may wonder how greatly these outweighed the disadvantages . |
| 23 | ‘ I assume you made it worth her while in other ways , but obviously I failed to discover from her own fair lips how much you thought she was worth , and I 'm damned sure you wo n't admit how much you 've paid over the odds for her favours . ’ |
| 24 | He would , if you make it worth his while . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ On whether you make it worth my while . ’ |
| 26 | and make it worth our while . |
| 27 | Do n't know why we never realised it before but Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the company 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock , making him worth about $60m . |
| 28 | Although he warns against treating France as an extension of the British market , he dismisses the view that it is an awkward place to do business : ‘ There is a market for everything in France and the chances are that the French do n't need any British imports — it 's a question of making it worth their while . |
| 29 | That makes him worth about $60m on the hoof . |
| 30 | No-one would have planned a system like it , but , the argument goes , its powers to examine and revise legislation are scarcely great enough to make it worth the bother of finding something to replace it . |