Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the sixth day of rehearsal , Burge decided that Dustin would never ‘ find ’ the role , and asked him to make way for another actor . |
| 2 | Towards noon on 5th October , Howard 's treaty Nez Perce scouts Captain John and Old George carried a white flag to the fugitives ' lines and asked them to make peace . |
| 3 | As I fought for bar space to order the drinks , I looked over my shoulder and caught her making hand signals to a bunch of her friends camped on the stairs leading up to the Ladies ' toilets . |
| 4 | The developmentalists grabbed it and used it to make distance between the materially rich and poor nations so that very soon ‘ Third World ’ universally connoted poverty , overpopulation , disease , disorder , illiteracy , violent social upheavals and every imaginable human horror . |
| 5 | He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting . |
| 6 | Disgusted by the latest battle between the quarrelsome politicians , he met the prime minister , Nawaz Sharif , and the president , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , separately on May 31st and told them to make peace or else . |
| 7 | Then she got up , rather stiffly , and busied herself making tea and thin bread and butter , an invariable meal , but always a treat . |
| 8 | Every evening since Boxing Night she had come to his basement-room and allowed him to make love to her . |
| 9 | In spite of everything the Collector felt his spirits lift as he sat down beside Lucy on a sheltered corner of the verandah and watched her making cartridges . |
| 10 | And did it make sense ? |