Example sentences of "try to make [noun] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But our two leaders had bitten off more than they could chew when they tried to make leaders out of the rest of us . |
| 2 | You tried to make patterns out of the flowers and ribbons on the wallpaper . |
| 3 | To try to make sense out of the vast amount of raw material intercepted each day the NSA uses computers that are programmed to search for key ‘ trigger ’ words , names , and numbers amongst the hundreds of thousands of circuits being continuously analysed . |
| 4 | Some entrepreneurial showmen then decided they would try to make money out of his popularity and they caught him with the hope of transporting him to London to put on display . |
| 5 | They 're trying to make money out of people 's ignorance but there is nothing they do which licensees could n't do for themselves perfectly well . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm trying to make order out of this chaos , but it 's a losing battle . ’ |
| 7 | I remember trying to make sense out of these ghostly darting signs that overlaid the story of the film , which most of the time I could n't follow . |
| 8 | Thank you Chairman , I despair sometimes when I listen to , to everybody trying to make points out of a discussion like this . |