Example sentences of "they [vb past] to make [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simple reason for which they failed to make the headlines and fire up the imagination of rugby pundits around the world is that they were blacks and coloureds in an apartheid-ridden South Africa . |
| 2 | He had no great difficulty in getting together the numbers he required , and simply told them that if they failed to make the grade in training , they would have to return to their original units . |
| 3 | But , once they had arrived in large numbers , they tried to make a reporter 's life as easy as possible , providing basic material about the country and the war , easy access to military experts and well-protected trips to watch the fighting . |
| 4 | I do n't get the impression that they tried to make a statement by getting more and more obscure . |
| 5 | When they tried to make an arrest , the police were subject to vicious abuse and assault . |
| 6 | Although a number of rather insincere sounding press interviews gave no hint of any rift ( in fact they seemed to make a point of stating the reverse , itself a suspicious fact ) it was said that Morrissey had taken exception to Marr 's increasing amount of non-Smiths activities . |
| 7 | They began to make a head count , lingering over the names with relish , proud of being survivors . |
| 8 | But missionaries constantly encountered the idea of an interaction between supernatural power and material prosperity , and the complexity of this idea only served to increase the sensitivity which they needed to make an impact on the discussion . |
| 9 | Collections , raffles , sponsored events and a quiz night/disco were held to help the nurses raise the £3,000 they needed to make the trip . |
| 10 | By the second half of February the Germans were beginning to be really worried by the advance — although slow — of the Allies and by the strong resistance of the partisans , so they decided to make a deal with the partisan leaders to save their own lives . |
| 11 | They decided to make the effort . |
| 12 | A number of unexpected things happened and in the middle of it all they had to make a decision about purchasing a property . |
| 13 | They had to make a diversion around the giant firework display in the middle of St Mark 's basin , the noise of the rockets like gunfire . |
| 14 | About thirty in each suite to differ and a master key and as I say there was five suites and they had to make a key that 'd open everyone of the fifty-five . |
| 15 | The council says the theatre 's a major drain on their resources and to avoid shutting it down completely they had to make the change . |
| 16 | They refused to make the payment and cancelled her direct debit . |
| 17 | They laboured to make the empire internally consistent . |
| 18 | I think they wanted to make an example of me . |
| 19 | If they wanted to make an offer she would listen and think it over . |
| 20 | ‘ The advertising agency told us they wanted to make the ground look as much like Roker Park as possible , ’ he says . |
| 21 | They intended to make a prophecy that would be self-fulfilling in its entirety . |