Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough complete their North Division One programme at home to Widnes without lock Steve Howe , who is moving to Nottingham and has yet to make a decision about his playing future . |
| 2 | When we found it and after I had thanked every sea god for my luck and promised never to make the same stupid mistake again , I gingerly inspected the Seayak for damage . |
| 3 | He had continued instead to think in terms of a united Christendom organized into national churches , ‘ compacted and united together to make and constitute but one Catholic Church or body ’ . |
| 4 | Ian Robertson and Rea are both of them knowledgeable and accomplished enough to make their living in political and current affairs television , if they wanted to . |
| 5 | This amounts to a technology which liberates not only the teacher but the learner and allows both to make more intelligent connections between the worlds of school and the wider community . |
| 6 | pupils are able and mature enough to make choices at the age of 13/14 ; |
| 7 | When he had explored the problem , I asked him if he could write down a number in the sequence and say which numbers were squared and added together to make it . |
| 8 | The doorbell rang a few minutes after she had opened the lid of her case and returned downstairs to make herself a cup of tea . |
| 9 | He went back home and returned later to make a watercolour of it . |
| 10 | Three times in all her grandfather prostrated himself on the altar mat , then he rose slowly and stepped aside to make way for his son . |
| 11 | If you get stuck in submissiveness you will often seek forgiveness and try endlessly to make up for what you have done ! |
| 12 | She turned away , frustrated , and went downstairs to make lunch . |
| 13 | ‘ After we came out of prayers we had our breakfast , and went upstairs to make the beds and do the bedrooms . |
| 14 | She swathed the thing in damp cloths and plastic , and went indoors to make his supper . |
| 15 | Or : ‘ Your forefathers worked hard , fought hard , and died hard to make this Empire for you . |
| 16 | It is important to think ahead and allow longer to make a garment — not really a problem , but a little difficult to accept after years of knitting a garment very quickly . |
| 17 | Caldas had once been a favourite family haunt , she recalled wistfully , and had the local bus service not meandered into every far-flung hamlet on its way and taken forever to make the journey she would have been back long ago . |
| 18 | Before long I was posted and had sadly to make my reluctant goodbyes to Yolande . |
| 19 | Norman Tebbit was still on his feet , waving what appeared to be a small Union Jack , and trying manfully to make himself heard above the din . |
| 20 | ‘ But it does n't stop people wanting a white wedding and working hard to make it happen . ’ |