Example sentences of "make for the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we can only slip inside Germany we can make for the autobahn and then for the Black Forest area . ’ |
| 2 | She ducked under his arm and made for the door but he caught her arm . |
| 3 | She made for the stand where her umbrella was kept . |
| 4 | She made for the fires and the sudden yellow flashes that lit up the central complex of buildings . |
| 5 | Somehow we escaped and made for the Wig and Dickle and suitable refreshments . |
| 6 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 7 | On no account look out your passport and make for the airport because they 'll catch you in customs and the judge will be cross and tell you you 're a cold-blooded , ruthless and calculating murderess and give you twenty years . |
| 8 | IRELAND WAS made for the crack and this band for the hearing . |
| 9 | Oh yeah , lots of stuff made for the Army and and and they did n't know , I mean the manufacturers s sent the work to the hosiery dye- yards they they did n't know what they were sending or what they got , they just churned it all out and and that was it you know it were I could a lot of things about that . |
| 10 | ‘ Provision is , however , made for the possibility that at any time the two airports may have the same owner . |
| 11 | Only when the agency is satisfied that they have a film which can be made for the money and will be allowed on air should it be shown to the client . |
| 12 | They should be kept in a rigid container made for the purpose and stored in a secure place . |
| 13 | Recommendations have been made for the legalisation and declassification of items formerly kept secret ; for their cataloguing ; their display on exhibition and the calculation of losses incurred by both parties . |
| 14 | They were bare and shabby and if it had not been for the pretty yellow cloths she had made for the tables and the yellow and orange cushions she had covered for the chairs and the blue vase full of roses she had asked Maria to place on the chest of drawers , then they would have been dismal indeed . |
| 15 | Parliamentary time has been made for the Bill and for amendment of the 1984 legislation . |
| 16 | ‘ Bon ! ’ as he pushed back his chair after a meal and made for the stairs and his own preoccupations . |
| 17 | Bennett was also worried about the lack of allowance made for the impact that HMIs have when they visit a school ( the term for this is ‘ reactivity ’ , which will be discussed in Part Three ) . |
| 18 | B.1.1 put the Purchaser into the position which would have existed had such matter been as so warranted , represented or undertaken by paying to the Purchaser a sum equal to the amount by which the value or amount at Completion of any assets or liabilities of the Business ( computed for this purpose on the basis that full provision was made for the facts and circumstances in relation to which such breach arose ) was less or ( as the case may be ) more than the value or amount at Completion of such assets or liabilities ( computed on the assumption that the facts and circumstances had been such as to involve no such breach ) together with all costs and expenses incurred or any other loss or damage suffered by the Purchaser as a result of such breach ; or ( if the Purchaser shall so elect ) . |
| 19 | It is easy to forget exactly how much allowance should be made for the wind and other factors on a rough day . |
| 20 | The Commission had taken much of its case from the evidence of the BBFC , differing only in proposing that the private exhibition of films on domestic occasions should not be subject to criminal sanction provided that no person under 16 was present and no charge was made for the exhibition or for anything provided in connection with it . |
| 21 | What arrangement have you made for the children if they are ill or on holiday ? |
| 22 | In others he will have virtually no guidance , beyond looking at the relatively few determinate sentences for attempted murder and considering what adjustment should be made for the fact that death ensued . |
| 23 | To calculate the size of gutter needed to cope with this amount of rain , allowance has to be made for the fact that the wind will tend to drive more rain on to the roof than would simply fall on the ca flat plan area . |
| 24 | Allowance must be made for the fact that the raw data will not always have been sampled randomly , and that some data will be missing and that the indicators will often be different kinds of variable . |
| 25 | In the example of Alex in the chapter no allowance was made for the fact that an item had been in use for some time . |
| 26 | Book Seven enhances the impression of a century of civil war , but again allowance must be made for the fact that this one book covers scarcely more than twelve months of 584/5 , and that it is concerned largely with the attempt by the " pretender " Gundovald to establish his claim to the Frankish throne . |
| 27 | Discount must also be made for the fact that the dependants will receive an accelerated benefit in the form of a lump sum rather than smaller benefits over a number of years . |
| 28 | In the latter case the judge thought that the term " services " had been too narrowly construed in the past and that allowance should be made for the fact that a wife and mother does not work set hours and that she is in constant attendance on the home . |
| 29 | Recall from Chapter 12 that an allowance has to be made for the fact that a given sum of money to be received in the future is worth less than the same sum received now . |
| 30 | Allowance should be made for the fact that these pupils are of an age where they mou , may either streak ahead of expectation to an enterprise or remain disinterested and static in their reception programmes . |