Example sentences of "make [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The sport 's governing body is also considering suing the American athlete for libel over accusations he made during a campaign to clear his name after he tested positive for steroids in Monte Carlo in August 1990 and was subsequently banned for two years .
2 I feel I must reply to some of the points Mr , Findlay made during the course of the conversation ( I was told that these were not just his views , ie. he had discussed the matter with you ) .
3 Defeated election candidate Paul Rayner has honoured a pledge he made during the campaign to members of Middlesbrough 's Muslim community by writing to the new Home Secretary with details of long delays experienced by would-be immigrants .
4 Closing on the same day is the confrontation between the work of Carmelo Arden and Roger Desserprit made during the years of the association with the Madi group in the 1950s .
5 UNION leaders called for High Street banks to be taxed on the £500 million profit they made during the sterling crisis .
6 Mr Bergg wrote to Mr Fallon asking him to qualify the remarks he made during the debate .
7 He reckoned that he would by then have far outflanked any cordon thrown up by his enemies , and could safely make for a phone .
8 Gourmet shops and galleries , furniture and fashion , antiques and 1066 collectables , books on the Battle of Hastings and , of course , the Sussex trug , will make for a shopping experience surrounded in history .
9 It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play .
10 All of which would make for a rave review , were it not for the fact that , for all their charm , the Jays ' every move oozes lamentable irrelevance .
11 Admittedly legal training may be a bit wider , and may include elements of economics and political science , erm than the kind of training that we have in Britain , but it is nonetheless a law-dominated training , and this does make for a difference erm in approach , I think .
12 The three piece leather does make for a lot of stitching at the sides and this suffered quite badly after a few days on rough moraine .
13 They say imaginative management and co-operation with tenants will make for a model estate .
14 In Britain , though , ever since his selection the media had become very excited about Allan Wells , almost willing him to win , to have the come-back that would make for a fairy-tale ending .
15 We should be all right for a few moments as it is deeper water ; we can then make for the beach , hopefully avoiding the big dumping surf . ’
16 Perhaps even more destructively , the Philharmonic Hall acoustic does not make for the clarity of diction experienced in the average theatre .
17 Any graduate visiting the University should first make for the Visitors ' Centre , where they can be sure of a warm welcome .
18 Having turned the car , she wondered if she should make for the cottage to talk out with her mother what her next move should be , but thinking that would leave her grandmother alone too long , she decided to make for home again .
19 She 'd make for the kitchen , she thought , and let herself out through the back door .
20 And I got up and I was gon na tie her up like but and by gosh I thought I 'd better make for the door again .
21 Mostly they 'd make for the West End and meet others like themselves ; they 'd pick up survival information , get oriented within the subculture that they 'd entered , and learn where the free food could be picked up .
22 I am pleased to tell my hon. Friend that the latest estimate we can make for the spend on computerisation this year will not be £20 million but £25 million .
23 Once off the airfield , Stirling gave orders for the jeeps to split up and make for the rendezvous separately , as he was sure that the following morning the sky would be full of angry German fighters out looking for them .
24 Only at the last minute , by forced marches , would it suddenly make for the Channel coast .
25 But I did make for the baize door a little more quickly than on my way in , and in the semi-darkness stumbled over one of the wellingtons , kicking it half-way across the floor .
26 What a coil do I make for the loss of my punk
27 If we can only slip inside Germany we can make for the autobahn and then for the Black Forest area . ’
28 I lay in the bath daydreaming of putters that never missed and that were made of priceless and perfect metals unknown to man , of millions of pounds won on the fairways of the world , and of even more millions made off the course .
29 He took with him a recording of the female whales at play which he made off the Azores as part of his post-graduate efforts to analyse sperm whale sounds .
30 THERE are several assumptions we reasonably CAN make about the future .
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