Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they should have been given even more ‘ porridge ’ , then their belief that their own status made them beyond the rule of law was insufficiently punished . |
| 2 | And a of course is also what they used to get when you wanted to make mealy puddings you made them with the the intestines of an animal and that 's also called a . |
| 3 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 4 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |
| 5 | why they do n't change over in this country because we 're the odd one out and if they make cars they 've got ta make them with the steering wheel one side or the other |
| 6 | All the Brownies agreed , and so Beegee promised to see what she could do about getting old-fashioned uniforms or photographs of them so that mothers could make them in the style of earlier days . |
| 7 | ‘ I make them for the shops to sell , ’ she told Virginia . |
| 8 | The feathery and delicate fronds of the ferns make them among the most beautiful of the foliage plants , and they attract a fanatical group of devotees dedicated to growing exotic species in inhospitable cities . |
| 9 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
| 10 | ‘ Angry though he 's made me in the past , he is a good lad . |
| 11 | I stress that we have made them in the most constructive vein possible . |
| 12 | The players owe a debt to the club and those long-suffering fans who have made them among the best paid in the game . |
| 13 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 14 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
| 15 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 16 | For a start Albert the Thief would not have made it through the membership committee . |
| 17 | Joseph had made it through the gate , but was cornered by the populace in an alley . |
| 18 | Demonstrating what a simple change at the top can achieve , Compaq Computer Corp , which had sales of $3,200m last year and had been heading back towards the $2,000m mark under the previous regime , last week announced that it had made it through the $4,000m sales barrier for 1992 , with profits up 34% in the most recent quarter . |
| 19 | The jobless total has risen by forty four percent in a year : just around the corner from grail engineering evidence of firms which have n't made it through the recession , and empty industrial units where firms have yet to try . |
| 20 | Silvikrin may not be the first to introduce a two-in-one shampoo and conditioner , but they have certainly made it worth the wait . |
| 21 | North also said that biblical verses were brought up in conversation , though they do not seem to have made it onto the surreptitious tape . |
| 22 | Mostly they were second-rate copies of the kind of American bar-room R&B bands the members of these pub bands had seen in the days when they had a bit more going for them and had actually made it to the States one time in the late sixties or early seventies . |
| 23 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 24 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 25 | Finally , assuming that you have made it to the right starting line in plenty of time , wearing the right kit and your race number , and are facing the correct way when the cannon sounds , there is just one last piece of essential advice : do n't panic ! |
| 26 | The interesting question is , under today 's restrictions , just how many of America 's great leaders of the past would still have made it to the White House . |
| 27 | Only nine people have made it to the top in winter — and one died on the way down . |
| 28 | So far only a small number of women have made it to the top . |
| 29 | They 'd all gone over the side , singing Johnny Lydon 's hit ‘ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding , Mr Galtieri , ’ and 98% of them had n't made it to the beaches . |
| 30 | In reality Goldie is a shrewd operator who is proud to have made it to the top on her own merits . |