Example sentences of "make [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The parallels , such as they are , between 511 and 561 , together with the arrangements made to cope with the death of Charibert , lend a spurious uniformity to the divisions of the Merovingian kingdom , but one which is , at first sight , supported by the events of 595 .
2 She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water .
3 We were ordered into the service area off the kitchen and made to sit on the floor .
4 The suggestions they make build in the views described in section 9-3-1 , as follows :
5 ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening .
6 The new rules for taxing manufactured interest , payments made to compensate for the loss of interest , where for instance a security is ‘ sold cum interest ’ but acquired by the seller ex interest in order to meet the sale , took effect on 29 June 1992 and apply from 30 June 1992 .
7 Ms Fancourt was superb and Ms Coyne would make walking to the bus stop seem a provocative and elegant statement .
8 Most controversially , they recommended stronger police powers to search and arrest brothel-keepers and make soliciting on the streets illegal .
9 We do appreciate the efforts you make to come to the meeting and in case you were worried the bar will be open in the Oak Room now .
10 Whilst physical infirmity may make physical care of great significance to the old person and mental infirmity may limit their capacity to give and receive other kinds of care , the efforts we make to relate to the whole person are critical if we are to avoid the stigmatising and depersonalising processes which insult the integrity of the old person .
11 It added : ‘ They also saw students from a college being ordered out in front of the building , made to stand against the wall , and shot dead .
12 Make do with the absolute minimum .
13 Increase her painkillers to a dangerous level , make do with the district nurses and hope she does n't fall again , which is , in fact , her best chance to get back in hospital !
14 Why not leave slogging through all that real-time stuff to the critics , and just make do with the flashy emptiness of the trailer ?
15 We make do with the dole and Ellie 's going in with a friend who 's just started a café which 'll help with the food .
16 If there are no ceiling outlets , make do with the kind of floor lamps that have adjustable spots or , if there are wall points , get wall-mounted spots .
17 This movement ‘ down ’ from God to man expresses and reveals the character and nature of God himself ; for his being is not separate from his action ; and in the answering movement ‘ up ’ from man to God , we see that human existence itself is grounded upon and made to answer to the divine initiative .
18 The Prime Minister would make do with the Marks & Spencer .
19 He carried no weapon save his own sharp needles and scissors , but it occurred to him that he could make do with the slivers of glass from the broken sarcophagus .
20 It is the hardiest breed of all , able to be productive where other cattle could not even survive , and , like other hardy old breeds , it is long-lived and can make do with the poorest of grazing .
21 Regular readers will know that I have been a fan of Stephen Coonts since I reviewed his first novel Flight of the Intruder ( now a major ( ? ) film , as they say , though I 'd make do with the book if I were you ) .
22 Expanded memory is much slower than Extended memory , so if it can make do with the latter ( and you do n't need Expanded memory for an old DOS program ) , delete it from your CONFIG.SYS .
23 But I believe that the decisions made to go on the trips this autumn have been good ones .
24 But I believe that the decisions made to go on the trips this autumn have been good ones .
25 It got a roar of appreciation which I can still hear , and afterwards Stephen Sondheim came over to ask me if I 'd had the dress made to go with the remark .
26 I was happy that he was being made to go to the hospital to have his ankle set in plaster , and because I found him very simpatico I was determined to go and see him there .
27 In accordance with the promptings of his noble nature , he envisioned that streams of water should be made to flow through the proposed fort and that its terraces should overlook the river .
28 These get their name from the fact that solder is made to flow along the tiny gap between the copper fitting and the pipe by capillary action .
29 No current can be made to flow from the STM 's needle on to their surfaces .
30 Automatic crystallisation is not a term of art but covers at least two situations which at first blush appear dissimilar ; one is where the charge is made to crystallise on the happening of an event provided for in the charge without there being any need for a further act by the chargee and the other is where the charge is made to crystallise on the serving of a notice of crystallisation on the company .
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