Example sentences of "to make [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controllers urged him to make for a remote runway which would take him over fields and small villages . |
| 2 | They had decided to make for a small river valley in which there was an isolated church reached by a footpath across fields . |
| 3 | Superbly intelligent and well-crafted on record , surfing along upon churning , chiming guitars , Chadwick 's crew have proved unpredictable enough onstage to make for a compelling night out . |
| 4 | It was n't any use going back to the shop now ; she would phone Myra , then she would get down to designing the bridesmaids ' dresses that would match the bride 's gown she was commissioned to make for a big wedding in the autumn . |
| 5 | It was a relief therefore to make for the frozen shore where the parson was protesting that his wife would be safer and more comfortable if she remained in the carriage . |
| 6 | She started as though to make for the front door , but Mr Hunter held up a hand to stop her . |
| 7 | There are areas , one or two of which I will go on to elude to , which I still think are actually going to make for the greatest savings in the coming financial year and thereafter . |
| 8 | If a cat enters a room where several people are talking , it is very likely to make for the one person there who has an abnormal fear of felines . |
| 9 | But there 's even more to disagree with , particularly in the suggested preparations we are told to make for the forthcoming holocaust . |
| 10 | When on two occasions Ewen turned to make for the open sea , Neil , increasing our speed slightly , held on to what looked like a collision course . |
| 11 | No one had any comment to make for the excellent reason that everyone had already been convinced of the fact . |
| 12 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |
| 13 | The BBC had no comment to make about the deepening row and said it had no knowledge of any plans to oust him . |
| 14 | He had a point or two to make about the present regime but if there was a hint of criticism it was of the gentlest sort . |
| 15 | I mean , for me personally I think there 's actually a decision that if I ca n't get over the full unbiased impression that I want to make about the whole story , I 've got to make a decision whether I 'm going to talk to you at all . |
| 16 | Lennon fans might well object to the implicit glamorisation of his nemesis , but it is clear that Dallmeyer has serious points to make about the noble ideals of the Sixties , loneliness , and the emotional abuse of children . |
| 17 | The focus of this theory is upon the comparison individuals are presumed to make between the marginal value of an extra hour of work or leisure . |
| 18 | It was the first in a series of brutal references to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ which Hitler came to make during the following years . |
| 19 | But what is one to make of a solemn pronouncement in a Companies Act that ‘ an insurance company which contravenes a restriction to which it is subject by virtue of subsections ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years ’ ? |
| 20 | ‘ It was an impertinent request to make of a professional man such as yourself . |
| 21 | Three points should be emphasised about the nature and extent of the appraisal that the Commission is obliged to make of a proposed concentration under the Merger Regulation : |
| 22 | That is a harsh judgment to make of the freest-flowing and most sophisticated ( that is , complicated ) financial markets the world has ever known . |
| 23 | I suggested a second or so ago that the ordinary reader , unsure of what to make of the shifting realities of Joyce 's writing , might defensively assume that no such hesitations would trouble the experienced reader , but that is far from being a homogeneous class . |
| 24 | Ferranti was unsure of what to make of the feverish stock market speculation . |
| 25 | Three years on , what to make of the original inner city mama , out here in the sticks ? |
| 26 | What , then , in the face of these many and conflicting voices , is the Christian to make of the Holy Spirit ? |
| 27 | What , then , is one to make of the startling price of the slim biography ? |
| 28 | We are equally ready to project this highly idealized picture of ourselves onto our own past and do not know what to make of the weird mystical ‘ fantasies ’ in which our ancestors seem to have indulged . |
| 29 | For the moment , the demand to make of the nuclear powers is not for a test ban but for five-power talks and joint research to explore more defensible ways of going about their testing business . |
| 30 | In any event , if a negative correlation for siblings implies non-genetic control of dichotic listening asymmetry what are we to make of the positive ( and significant ) correlation for spouses ? |