Example sentences of "we [vb past] make [det] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We did make we did make this point to Keith actually very very clearly , |
| 7 | ‘ In retrospect we did make some questionable decisions , ’ Mr Warren told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 8 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 9 | I was sad to leave the boat , we had made many friends despite the trip being only a few hours long . |
| 10 | After six months we had made such a success of our little business that we took on a fourth girl and moved into the garage , as we now needed more space . |
| 11 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |
| 12 | 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 . |