Example sentences of "made [adv] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple were chauffeured from their homes to the town hall where they put on the replica mayoral chains made specially for the occasion . |
| 2 | The results of applying a transformation procedure to the aeromagnetic data were compared with vector measurements over dense networks in the two areas , made specially for the study . |
| 3 | Turning from him , she made quickly for the door . |
| 4 | Potter made straight for the peak and plummeted down the perpendicular drop : the lip curled over him and he was inside the tube . |
| 5 | It sniffed the air then made straight for the drum . |
| 6 | The Young Frog waved happily to the dancers and , ignoring his hostess , made straight for the Duke . |
| 7 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 8 | Mrs Chalk was nowhere to be found , so she made straight for the medicine cupboard in the spacious Georgian-style kitchen with its enormous , old-fashioned white-painted cupboards and scrubbed-elm table , and located the painkillers , swallowing the dosage with water before setting about making the tea . |
| 9 | The normal recourse of exiled Spanish knights was to the nearest Moorish court , but Rodrigo made instead for the Kingdom of Barcelona . |
| 10 | When Aggie swung round with a lightness that always denied her heavy bulk and made hastily for the door , Millie flew after her and , jumping in front of her , threw her arms around her waist as far as they would go , crying , ‘ I 'm sorry . |