Example sentences of "did [adv] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to be having trouble putting one in front of the other but she did eventually make it to the steps of the disabled bus and fell inside . |
| 2 | Their rejection did not make of them ‘ social outcasts ’ ( save to the unseeing ) but raised their mark intensely : they were closest to God . |
| 3 | A report in the weekly Moscow News did not make clear if the insurgents were Armenians or Azerbaijanis . |
| 4 | Although Labour accepted that a second chamber to replace the Lords could be elected by a method other than the present first-past-the-post system , that chamber did not make or break governments . |
| 5 | The FIA court of appeal did not make a final decision in Paris on Thursday after a three-hour hearing to consider Mansell 's evidence . |
| 6 | ‘ I did not make a fuss about it . |
| 7 | The capture of the village yesterday evening did not make much difference to our situation in and around the village . |
| 8 | Then , how long before somebody proposes giving points for undersized fish that did not make the undersize fish measure ? |
| 9 | Human beings did not make slugs or crabs . |
| 10 | Another 23% did not make duty periods overlap to ensure continuous monitoring . |
| 11 | She did not make errors . |
| 12 | Polgar is against conventional schooling , he says , because ‘ it did not make learning a beloved activity . ’ |
| 13 | He had thought of experimenting with three different subjects — maths , foreign languages and chess — but his financial circumstances in those days did not make it possible . |
| 14 | It did not make any sales . |
| 15 | We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) . |
| 16 | America 's first hostile bids did not go over the heads of the managers , but that did not make them friendly . |
| 17 | The enduring point is that close links did not make finance the slave of industry . |
| 18 | She broke off abruptly , but that did not make her silent . |
| 19 | Analyses of Chinese statues and coins show that they did not make much use of brass until about the sixteenth century AD . |
| 20 | He was gelded and given time to mature a little before being asked to race , and he did not make his debut until 23 February 1929 . |
| 21 | Its influence was slow to make itself felt , and it did not make a clean sweep of Western monasticism until the ninth century . |
| 22 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 23 | She raged to Ferdinando about this Dr Grisanowsky , and even the assurance that he was a friend of Miss Blagden 's did not make him more acceptable in her eyes . |
| 24 | It did not make sense to her . |
| 25 | Nomads did not have addresses , did not make the history of territories . |
| 26 | It sounds like a typical design-by-committee product , but to the general relief the closest boat to this , the anodyne German Teeny , did not make it past Dover . |
| 27 | Perhaps the boat with the most character — even though it did not make the final selection — was the PDQ ; an amateur effort that can be built at home from cheap parts . |
| 28 | Their success at the game did not make for an easy relationship , though . |
| 29 | Bridgend4 BRIDGEND simply could not win enough quality possession in their Schweppes Welsh Cup quarter-final at Rodney Parade on Saturday , and though Newport did not make the most of their chances they still won fairly comfortably . |
| 30 | There was scarcely a branch of Australian art to which Burke did not make a contribution , through research , criticism , personal contact with artists , and as a member of countless boards , committees and trusts . |