Example sentences of "make [pron] [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liese made me dinner in the Chinese style : miso soup , stir-fried vegetables , sweetsap for dessert . |
| 2 | ‘ I have a tremendous fundamental urge to get out and make my way in the world . |
| 3 | When it became clear that he had nothing to tell me , I made my exit in the face of dismissive politeness . |
| 4 | The cost of buying equipment and the requirement of skilled personnel to maintain and run it can make its use in the repeated assessments which are required for measuring rhythms prohibitively expensive . |
| 5 | She will make her nest in the sleeping quarters of the hutch where she will eventually have her litter . |
| 6 | His words made her halt in the doorway . |
| 7 | I want to know what made her stay in the face of my behaviour , what made her help his sister when anyone else would have left her to look a fright on her wedding day … ’ |
| 8 | Most of the outstanding men who first made their name in the amateur game , turned professional — Tilden , Perry , Budge , Gonzales ‘ Sedgman , Trabert , and then Rosewall , Hoad , and finally Rod Laver . |
| 9 | That is to say , Libyans whose families had settled in the cities some generations before were perhaps exempt from this process ; but the majority of Libyans made their history in the same way , and shared this picture of the past . |
| 10 | The Gorengs made their home in the former diplomatic quarter , the area which had , to the glee of the Chinese in the Toku-ru warehouse , been accidentally shelled by the malai navy on invasion day . |
| 11 | This made their defeat in the one-day internationals easier for them to bear . |
| 12 | After robbing the van , they made their getaway in the red car , which was abandoned a few hundred yards away . |
| 13 | Until the 1980s , the majority of nationalist conservative and ultra-right elements in West Germany made their homes in the right wings of the mainstream conservative parties , the CDU and its Bavarian sister-party , the Christian Social Union ( CSU ) . |
| 14 | If you have a literary bent , there is a lot that will appeal to you here ; Wordsworth , Ruskin and Beatrix Potter all made their homes in the vicinity and today these ‘ shrines ’ are open to the public . |
| 15 | The bid , made in partnership with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ( KKR ) , the group that made its name in the leveraged buy-out binge of the 1980s , enhances the deal-making reputation of Fleet/Norstar 's chairman , Terrence Murray . |
| 16 | Easy Rider made its name in the middle of this melée and specifically at a time when the whole counter-culture movement had taken on an explosive , manic air . |
| 17 | The piano made its patterns in the air . |
| 18 | Chrysler 's Concorde LH saloon ( below ) made its debut in the British Airways Concorde lounge at JFK airport , New York . |
| 19 | For most of the 1975–76 civil war , the massive stone keep of the twelfth-century Castle of St Gilles that still towers over Tripoli was occupied by a Sunni Muslim militia that made its head-quarters in the crusader banqueting hall . |
| 20 | The procession of raised rook and chicken pies , with their intricate decorations , that made its appearance in the kitchen raised their expectations as high as the pie coffins , as did the jellies vanishing into the larders , and sorbets into the refrigerators . |
| 21 | One of the most important of these institutions was the workers ' council , which made its appearance in the early part of this century as a method of establishing direct working-class control of production , in opposition to both capitalist ownership and centralized state control . |
| 22 | It is also no doubt less than a coincidence that the central bank made its move in the week before the French elections . |
| 23 | Here , they are taken by the ocean currents into the Gulf Stream , in which three years pass as they slowly drift towards Europe and make their homes in the rivers , lakes and pools , far distant from their place of birth . |
| 24 | People who make their living in the informal sector are also required to pay all kinds of petty taxes , including business licenses , market charges and fees to government officials before permits can be issued . |
| 25 | Maria shook her head , still trying to reassemble the thoughts she had lost hold of when she had made her discovery in the lift . |
| 26 | She had also made her mark in the plum role of Jo in the original London and Broadway productions of A Taste of Honey , Shelagh Delaney 's play about a working-class girl who reluctantly faces motherhood after an affair with a black sailor , and finally chooses a life without men . |
| 27 | Government legislation for futher and higher education has made its mark in the form of implementation of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 ( and associated legislation in Scotland and Wales ) . |
| 28 | It was n't until much later that Sidney E. Berger , curator of manuscripts at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester , Massachusetts , explained to me that the word had made its début in the Tarzan movies . |
| 29 | Though the single-break flat-lidded coffin had made its entrance in the last quarter of the sixteenth century — the lead shell of Lady Elizabeth Howard ( d.1591 ) with appliqué lettering at Withyham , Sussex , is of this type , as is the pictorial representation of Sir Henry Unton 's 1596 coffin in the Unton portrait at the National Portrait Gallery , as well as a small sculptural representation of a coffin on the 1615 mural monument to Susan Kinges at Morston , Norfolk — the single-break gable-lidded shell seems to have been more popular . |
| 30 | Several members of the present touring party have made their reputations in the teams which have done so well in the Fira Championship . |