Example sentences of "we [vb past] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 2 | We tried to make each area a village with its own identity , a village hall and community , ’ she said . |
| 3 | ‘ We had only tents for shelter and we tried to make concrete blocks . |
| 4 | Do you remember when we tried to make fluffy dogs ? |
| 5 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 6 | The inclusion of these provisions in the plan were referred to by Rafsanjani in a speech on Oct. 8 , when he reported that " we decided to make some amendments in the plan ( which had been completed in an earlier draft form by the previous government of Prime Minister Hossein Moussavi ) under the new atmosphere " . |
| 7 | As we struggled to make both ends meet , during years of crop failure and recession in western Canada , we knew that the unemployment figure in the U.S.A. had reached 15 million despite F.D.R. 's ‘ New Deal ’ for the American economy . |
| 8 | We did make we did make this point to Keith actually very very clearly , |
| 9 | On this occasion , so late in the proceedings , we continued to make major alterations . |
| 10 | We had made good time and had to ease speed to avoid closing the island in darkness . |
| 11 | I was sad to leave the boat , we had made many friends despite the trip being only a few hours long . |
| 12 | ‘ If we had made political statements , Asterix would be too French . |
| 13 | By June we had made sufficient progress for me to tell the House of Commons that we intended to move against the ‘ frozen ’ pension . |
| 14 | If we had made different choices , we might have different industries , different types of towns and a different countryside . |
| 15 | By the end of 1980 we had made 160 collections and , despite problems with the budding technique , nearly 130 of these were safely growing in the nursery . |
| 16 | So we had to make radical changes . |
| 17 | We improve our operating margins , reduced our bad debts , and even though we had to make some reductions in numbers , the reorganisation costs were down on 1991 . |
| 18 | The Quakers ' community development officer , Ian Leckie , said : ‘ We wanted to make sure players from Darlington did their bit . ’ |
| 19 | Det Insp Jim Fitzsimmons said : ‘ We wanted to make sure Miss Fisher got home safely . |