Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] make [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 2 | We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ 'Men make their own history , ’ to quote the master , ‘ but they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves , but under circumstances directly encountered , given and transmitted from the past . |
| 4 | As Marx remarked , even when we make our own history , we do not make it in conditions of our own choosing and much of it is made behind our backs . |
| 5 | ‘ I know it said in the paper that Germany was prosperous because of all the armaments they make , but we do n't make them in Liverpool . ’ |
| 6 | Oh no we do n't make it from scratch , we just do the you know the m main machining |
| 7 | But I am also realistic and realise that there are people who do n't make it in life . |
| 8 | There 's no reason why you could n't appeal to people and erm for reading , you know , I mean it 's like well do n't make it in T V , put text in there , but also make it visual . |