Example sentences of "make it [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you must know , ’ Leith exploded , her anger turning to fury at the way he , with his ‘ two men at least ’ comment , had made it sound as though she were some tart , ‘ I had a bad experience in the last place I worked . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll be down soon , ’ I said , and rocked to and fro in the bed to make noises which might make it sound as though I was getting up . |
| 3 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 4 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 5 | We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) . |
| 6 | She would make it up as she went along — like a story told to a child at bedtime ; like a clever lie that relies as much on the truth as on deception . |
| 7 | No sorry I 've deci , I said I 'd make it up as I went along ! |
| 8 | You can just make it out as you cross from Aonach air Chrith to Maol Chinn-dearg , with Loch Quoich sparkling behind Gleouraich , another fabulous mountain . |
| 9 | You make it up as you go along . |
| 10 | ( I 've done dozens of lectures now , in front of all sorts of people , and I always make it up as I go along , although I suppose I must have a rough idea about what I 'm going to say . ) |
| 11 | I make it up as well |
| 12 | I was making it up as I went along . |
| 13 | The band was tight , but everyone else had seemed to be making it up as they went along . |
| 14 | She was aware that she was making it up as she went along but she certainly did n't want to repeat what Richie had actually said . |
| 15 | It is best to prepare the system before starting to draft , rather than making it up as sub-divisions arise during the drafting . |
| 16 | Just making it up as we went along . |
| 17 | Well he does n't know where I live at the but it came up in court that he was going to take me to court for access , making it out as though it was my fault that he had n't seen Ricky , I was stopping him from seeing Ricky when it 's his own fault . |
| 18 | You seen all these adverts about starting your own business , you know , governments like , you know , doing all these courses and making it out as though it 's it 's dead easy to get fi , you know hitting your head against a brick wall |
| 19 | If the sound is played at a different speed , only adjustment of the volume control is necessary to make it sound as it did before . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , there 's no need to make it sound as though I 'm a plague-carrier . |
| 21 | ‘ Just one , ’ she said graciously , managing to make it sound as though she were doing him a big favour . |
| 22 | She held the object up , but it was impossible to make it out as it was coated in mud . |
| 23 | She just makes it up as she goes along . |