Example sentences of "[adv] make " in BNC.

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1 Dusk was falling as I eventually made my way back into town .
2 Quite apart from the money he eventually made , he had a new argument to use in the continual discussions among traders about the justice and Koranic authority of the government 's policy toward commerce .
3 In spite of his frustrations , though , he fell in love with the country and eventually made his home in Jerusalem .
4 They appeared in parts over five years from March 1755 to June 1760 and eventually made two folio volumes .
5 Their routine was not the high-kicking style that eventually made John 's name .
6 I eventually made it into the Yorkshire second XI and ultimately the first team .
7 Created by Alex Raymond in the 1930's Flash eventually made his way onto the Commodore with a little help from Mastertronic Added Dimension , a budget house set up by Mastertronic .
8 And it sounds ridiculous saying it now , but what eventually made me decide to move was when John Mayall brought horns into the BB line-up ; I was so dumb that I thought , ‘ If it 's horns , it 's not blues . ’
9 Despite press speculation that GM might be offered a modified deal on Land Rover ( 49 per cent of the shares ) , the government eventually made it clear to GM that Land Rover was not part of the Leyland Vehicles deal , and as a result GM withdrew its offer .
10 ‘ I started screaming so loudly that crowds ran to the scene which eventually made the policemen stop . ’
11 We eventually made good our escape to Braemar , where we sat miserably in the pub , lamenting the fact that our dry clothes were a 200 mile bus and train journey away in Aviemore .
12 We presumed this to be a regular ford and drove across with the water slopping in over the floor of the Land rover , but we eventually made it up on to the high inland plateau .
13 Edward 's manipulation of the wool trade for his financial advantage intensified the divisions between the small group of wealthy merchants who stood to benefit from Edward 's schemes and the lesser merchants who eventually made common cause with the producers in opposing the monopolistic structure that Edward tried to create .
14 He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out .
15 The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England .
16 Bibikov was no liberal , but neither were some of those who eventually made major contributions to the emancipation of 1861 .
17 Her words were ringing in her ears as she eventually made her way through Customs .
18 But he survived his brush with death and eventually made it back to an English hospital .
19 That effectively made the game safe for the tourists , but there was little to commend in a cold and often bitter contest .
20 The ports , such as Harfleur , at the mouth of the Seine , could develop ship-building facilities , and the control of the lower Seine effectively made Rouen into a sea port and a shipyard .
21 Much more seriously , the House of Lords in Grunwick Processing Laboratories Ltd v. ACAS ( 1978 ) effectively made the resolution of recognition disputes dependent on the co-operation of employers .
22 His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 .
23 Implicit within the ruling was the concept that once an abortion restriction had been upheld in one state , other states could implement it , an interpretation which effectively made it more difficult to challenge the imposition by individual states of restrictions as long as they were within the guidelines established by the Court 's ruling in June 1992 on Roe v. Wade [ see p. 38954 ] .
24 Since Franco himself was head of government , this effectively made Carrero his Private Secretary .
25 Virgin duly made the appropriate rerelease but nothing happened .
26 For Hesketh , now committed to racing and to Hunt 's career — with a generosity unparalleled in FI — it seemed as sensible to take Hunt straight up into FI , and Hunt duly made his debut at a non-championship race at Brands Hatch early in 1973 , there earning , in a used Surtees TS9B , a third place just behind Denny Hulme — and Hulme was , let it be noted , driving the McLaren M23 , a far more advanced car .
27 ‘ I would rather make pragmatic progress than theoretical progress . ’
28 Thanks but no-thanks , we 'd rather make the programme we want to , despite the horrendous budget problems .
29 If you can not afford to invest the maximum allowed each year or would rather make regular monthly savings than invest in lump sums , you can put by as little as £10 per month .
30 Most organisations owed money would rather make such an arrangement , and have their money back eventually , than run the risk of saying goodbye to the money altogether .
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