Example sentences of "we [vb past] make [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We tried to make the best of it but it was so bad that was impossible , ’ said Brian . |
| 2 | ‘ We were all aware we 'd made a total cock-up . |
| 3 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 4 | We 've never been keen gardeners but last year we decided to make a special effort and bought a big selection of plants and seeds . |
| 5 | Also , we decided to make a stylistic change on this record and I see a lot of other metal bands following suit . |
| 6 | We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it . |
| 7 | One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on . |
| 8 | The hotel had much to keep youngsters occupied , but by day three we realised we had made a bad mistake in taking such a young child skiing . |
| 9 | He explained that we had made a grave error — it was Saturday afternoon . |
| 10 | ‘ But who knows what would have happened if we had made the early breakthrough tonight ? |
| 11 | We had to make a forced landing at Jever Luftwaffe Air Base just a few seconds in front of two Tornados on finals , making the runway a little slippy with the last few drops of oil leaking out of our crankcase . |
| 12 | Well , we had to make a better road through the forest , although I see through the window that it 's grown up a bit recently . |
| 13 | we had to make the most of it ! |
| 14 | Elizabeth Adams : ‘ I think perhaps I did not require from Somerville as much as I might here , fromJean Stanier : ‘ Somehow the fact that it was wartime put a sharper edge on things , as if we had to make the most of something that might not last ’ . |
| 15 | The day when McQuaid always used to come from the fair in Mohill and we had to make the big tea . ’ |
| 16 | What though if we wanted to make a further move of abstraction ? |
| 17 | We wanted to make an early start for home after a caravan holiday in Cornwall but I was so worried that we 'd oversleep , so my husband said he had an idea . |