Example sentences of "to make for [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 .
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