Example sentences of "make [pos pn] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I think I am going mad , and let a psychiatrist make my decisions for me , the goals I borrow become means to keep out of trouble and recover my health . |
| 2 | She made my bed for me and wound Little Ben as I hurtled into uniform . |
| 3 | I 'll make her pay for that later . |
| 4 | She had broken the law unwittingly , but still she had broken it , and if Jake was really determined he could make her pay for it . |
| 5 | Might there be a chance that if he went back to England , he could make her care for him ? |
| 6 | Husband Charles , 43 , was upset when Di picked a foreign car and made her pay for it herself . |
| 7 | A second , searing stroke made her gasp for breath , as fire exploded in her backside as if she 'd been hit by a ball of lightning . |
| 8 | She developed in the chief inspector the emotional equivalent of a skin rash , and made her wish for nothing better than to discover Christine was the ‘ friend ’ her father had met on Hampstead Heath . |
| 9 | He laughed , a bitter sound that made her ache for all the pain it conveyed . |
| 10 | As France made her preparations for war , it was relatively simple for her to make an alliance with Austria against Prussia and it also turned out to be surprisingly easy to draw Russia into this alliance . |
| 11 | He would also have known that Palmerston , having let it be known that he had asked Scott to submit a new design , was very unlikely to change his mind , and it was perhaps to give the appearance of some purpose to the delegation that he and Tite made their request for another competition . |
| 12 | Youngsters aged between 14 and 18 made their bids for the title of Cleveland 's Young Consumer of the Year at Middlesbrough town hall last night . |
| 13 | The force with which the judges made their case for Second Empire can be explained by assuming that they felt that if they did not strongly press for this form of building , another , and less welcome style in their eyes , would be adopted . |
| 14 | A panel of senior journalists made their selection for awards which included prizes of £500 for individual winners . |
| 15 | On 19 December 1991 the local authority made their application for an interim care order and I have said what the order was . |
| 16 | She certainly needed all her expertise one night when the children made their entrance for a skipping rope routine . |
| 17 | But I made their locks for H M S Gothic . |
| 18 | In the end the lisences made their complaint for mrs liscences sake |
| 19 | Six years ago , Guinness made its bid for Distillers . |
| 20 | The state-owned French firm made its bid for Piper public after a spate of rumours about the US company which has been in deep financial trouble since early 1990 . |
| 21 | THE US Congress last week made its pitch for a massive increase in spending on maths and science education . |
| 22 | Make her pay for it . |
| 23 | The unreliability of the written sources and the more obvious difficulty of actually relating the majority of historical events to archaeological data , make their use for dating early Anglo-Saxon archaeology very limited . |
| 24 | But it was starting to worry her that he could so openly refer to her running away from him , and since she had no intention of going into the ‘ whys ’ and ‘ wherefores ’ of that , and since she had made her apology for deceiving him — and had got off rather lightly , she had to admit — Fabia got to her feet . |
| 25 | He had no doubt that it was something devious , and her tone indicated she had already made her choice for him . |
| 26 | AMP has made its play for Pearl as part of long-term expansion plans . |
| 27 | They 'd made their plans for escape . |
| 28 | They have made their case for the ordination of women with obvious conviction , backed up with arguable facts ( in my opinion ) — but the whole argument is delivered in a studiously temperate and fair way that will impress even those who disagree with it . |
| 29 | How he 'd made their evening for them . ’ |
| 30 | He had made his debut for Guyana ( then British Guiana ) in 1963–4 as a nineteen year old , and joined Lancashire in 1968 . |