Example sentences of "[to-vb] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Wasps hit back with two more penalties from Rob Andrew the last with just seconds to go make it 9 all … |
| 2 | The first thing to acknowledge make sure |
| 3 | so 's tonight I 'm a different person cos I 've put make up and I went and got my hair done and I feel different tonight but I do n't feel under pressure that I have to wear make up all the time cos nobody treats me any different whether I 've got make up on or whether |
| 4 | And if you want to wear make up then of course , make up goes over the top of your moisturizer . |
| 5 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 6 | People who like to know make the earth smaller . |
| 7 | want to know make up today ! |
| 8 | Those who live close enough to walk to work make a point of mentioning it , rather as if they were keeping alive a forgotten folkway . |
| 9 | The first category includes consultative documents which are publicly available and , more numerous , invitations to comment made only to interested parties . |
| 10 | If adjustments are late at the end of an accounting period they have to be corrected manually causing the work involved in administering the system to increase making it very time consuming for the clerical staff . |
| 11 | He studied again the letter he had found in the wallet , then got to work making a careful copy of it . |
| 12 | He set the great Runesmith Alaric the Mad to work making twelve rune swords , one for each of the great chieftains of men who commanded Sigmar 's armies . |
| 13 | There 's always screws standing outside there , like there 's always screws lining the routes to work making sure you do n't stop to talk to anyone . |
| 14 | Very young children of four or five were put to work making matchboxes ; Lady Dilke , leader of the Women 's Protective and Provident League ( which became the Women 's Trade Union League in 1889 ) reported hearing a mother in Shoreditch saying ‘ Of course we cheat the School Board … |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd quite like to try making my own dye , ’ said Betty . |
| 16 | Our comprehensive gear guide tells you all you need to know to make the right choice |
| 17 | Believing that an artist has to suffer to make his statement , he puts himself through dangerous sequences like cutting off his breathing . |
| 18 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |
| 19 | It is sad if mothers who would rather be with their children have to go out to work to make ends meet . |
| 20 | These days , most women have to work to make ends meet and that means time away from their much-loved children and men . |
| 21 | I think this is an absolutely disgusting thing to say , to appear to make voyeurism a worse sin than the murder of my son . ’ |
| 22 | I think that that is an absolutely disgusting thing to say , to appear to make voyeurism a greater sin than the murder of my son , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I think that that is an absolutely disgusting thing to say , to appear to make voyeurism a greater sin than the murder of my son . ’ |
| 24 | Not so rear legroom , which , despite an extra inch , still forces those in front to compromise to make it a comfortable four-seater |
| 25 | A group of English players are reported to be bitter at having been left out of the squad for next week 's world team championships , and inevitably , the name of the game for the next couple of days in the Open , which starts today , will be to try to make monkeys of those who omitted them . |
| 26 | The workers , members of the International Association of Machinists , are taking advantage of the boom to try to make up for years of contract concessions and stagnant income . |
| 27 | Scott 's first venture into this unlikely field of design was at Battersea where , in 1930 , he was wheeled in as a famous knighted architect by the London Power Company to try to make acceptable the coal-fired monster power station to which the residents of Chelsea and Westminster were taking strong exception . |
| 28 | Sheila Scott , a state-registered nurse from Hendon , said the Government was right to try to make the NHS more cost-conscious . |
| 29 | ‘ Labour 's supposed conversion to multilateralism is no more than a confidence trick to try to make Labour electable . |
| 30 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |