Example sentences of "[pers pn] make [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I make allowances for the fact that the hon. Gentleman clearly prepared his supplementary before the news was announced . |
2 | Elephants have bigger brains than humans but , probably with some justice , we like to think that we are cleverer than elephants and that our brains are ‘ really ’ bigger if you make allowance for the fact that we are much smaller animals . |
3 | When you get to the small conglomeration of villages called , variously , Lecumberry , Men dive and Béhorléguy , you make half-left for the Col d'Aphanize and beyond it Ahusquy . |
4 | ‘ But if you make trouble for the O'Malleys , ’ Gerry said , ‘ the police will blame Brogan , Kerrigan and Mullen . |
5 | ‘ Horology is the study or measuring of time or making of clocks ’ — that 's what our dictionary says and the latter is what we do ; we make clocks for a large company called the London Clock Company , but we had very humble beginnings … . |
6 | When we make love for the second time this throbbing afternoon it is like lingering over liqueurs by a log fire . |
7 | We make camp for the night in earshot of Crystal Rapid , which in recent years has flipped more boats , taken more lives , and humbled more boatmen than any other on the river . |
8 | Well they , they just you know they they just have this erm craft sort of , they do stall and and they make stuff for the shop they had he had a couple of retail shops , he had a factory yeah I think he said he had fifty two people working for him . |
9 | These new arrangements contain two important features : they allow institutions to propose variations from normal validation arrangements ; and they make provision for the granting of discretion to institutions to make modifications to approved courses within agreed limits . |
10 | They make leather for the clothing industry and the international recession has taken its toll . |