Example sentences of "and make [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlotte strained her ears to hear whether he would slip out by the side door and make straight for the garage at the rear of the house for his car , but instead she heard the crisp , light rapping of his heels on the oak staircase . |
| 2 | The men would run up the outside staircases and make straight for that . |
| 3 | Rub through sieve , pour into sugar syrup and make up to 1.15 litres ( 2 pints ) with extra water . |
| 4 | According to the newspaper , the organisation has ‘ cut its budget by $9 million , is to sell the biggest of its seven ships and make up to 25 per cent of its 500 campaigners redundant ’ . |
| 5 | Falling donations have forced Greenpeace International to cut its 1993 budget from $36 million to $27 million , sell the largest of its seven ships , and make up to a quarter of its 500 campaigners redundant . |
| 6 | However , if farms remain profitable , yield-increasing technologies tend to mask the effect of soil degradation and erosion and make up for declines in fertility that would have occurred if land had been cultivated with a constant level of technology . |
| 7 | St Albans held on for the rest of the match to win 2–1 and take the ladies ' title for the second time and make up for four previous final defeats by Mutineers . |
| 8 | She realized he was trying to lead the conversation away from her husband , to be kind and make up for his blunder . |
| 9 | It was to salve her conscience , she thought , and make up for her obsessional preoccupation with Nick Frazer . |
| 10 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |
| 11 | Musically — forget it , but the spot effects are great and make up for the poor acoustic tones . |
| 12 | Oil demand will grow by less than 10% and make up about one-third of consumption in the year 2000 . |
| 13 | Women are severely under-represented in the urban trade union movement and make up under one-quarter of the total membership . |
| 14 | So it 's often sheer neglect on the part of the home owner that allows the thief to gain entry , and make off with your treasured possessions . |
| 15 | They 're cheeky enough to approach a picnic party for scraps of food , then snatch a teaspoon and make off with it . ’ |
| 16 | Gather up your belongings and make calmly for the door . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , for me , I reckon I can run and swim , and make out on the shooting if I put my mind to it , but the riding — well — I do n't know about the riding . ’ |
| 18 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 19 | And now , I I almost felt empty when she died , and I did n't have anybody to care for that really needed me all the time so I I , wanted to help out at a local dementia centre to try and make up for it and to pass on |
| 20 | Let me try and make up for my son 's suspicions ? |
| 21 | ‘ I tried so hard , you see , to give him extra attention — extra love — to try and make up for the loss of Maman . |
| 22 | He then generally obliged the heirs and entrusted to them that they should give and make over to each person whatever he had left them . |
| 23 | On seeking to patent his process , Castner discovered that a similar patent had been lodged in Germany by Karl Kellner and made over to the powerful Solvay Company in Belgium . |
| 24 | The night came down over Bryn Glas , and the remnant of the Mortimer forces crept out of hiding , salvaged what they could , and made lamely for home with their wounds and their disgrace . |
| 25 | It slithered on to the road , looked round for the nearest tuft of grass and made straight for it , pulling Mr Bean after it . |
| 26 | I came across from Oban — made a run for it , with the weather worsening all the time , but got here safely and made straight for our bay . |
| 27 | On this particular day , the seventeenth of November , they had barely started their lunch when Chambers , who rarely ate there , came in , saw them , and made straight for their end of the table . |
| 28 | When Aggie swung round with a lightness that always denied her heavy bulk and made hastily for the door , Millie flew after her and , jumping in front of her , threw her arms around her waist as far as they would go , crying , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 29 | Fortunately , journalist Brigid McConville was available to help tussle with the almost impossible task of distilling up to 1,000 pages of transcript and even more pages of documents into eight sides of pithy words , all of which were edited and made up into camera-ready artwork at the inquiry itself . |
| 30 | A SCHOOLGIRL yesterday dropped a legal bid to divorce her parents after she kissed and made up with her mum . |