Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd spotted them in a second-hand shop and immediately began saving feverishly to make them mine before anyone else got their hands on them . |
| 2 | The ATB needed to do more to make farmers aware how training was one of the cogs in a wheel of progress that included advisory services , banks , accountants , marketing organisations , etc . |
| 3 | Before breakfast on Saturday 18 August 1759 Boscawen was in sight of his quarry , or part of it , for eight of the Frenchmen had broken away to make for Cadiz . |
| 4 | These were groups of people with a common bond who had joined together to make regular contributions into a pool from which they could borrow at low rates of interest . |
| 5 | One of them was Kalchu , who had come early to make sure of a place at the front before the small shrine filled up with people . |
| 6 | Rory had decided early to make a story out of sex , to lift it from the dark and violent mystery that he suspected had lain between his parents . |
| 7 | The Great Western , London and North-Western , and Midland railways had refused point-blank to make any concessions to suburban travellers or workmen in fares or services throughout the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the infamous cassette tape recording of open outcry on a real trading floor was turned right up to impress clients , so the AEs had to shout loudly to make themselves heard . |
| 9 | She had fought hard to make a new life for herself — and there was absolutely no room in it for her husband . |
| 10 | Problems had eased between them when Lori had left home to make her career in modelling , and Paige had actually thought they would end completely when Lori had married a wealthy American and gone to live in the States . |
| 11 | People envied me my birth and my childhood , but my secret pride was that I had rejected both to make of myself a prosaic and common-sense fellow . |
| 12 | The Dutch interest there was inspired by the presence in the East Indies of large numbers of Hadhramis who had emigrated there to make their fortunes . |