Example sentences of "[pron] make for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without doubt , close and loving physical contact between child and mother , or surrogate mother , promotes both physical and emotional well-being in the infant ; while cursory and uncomfortable handling , lack of communication and the signs of " non-loving " implicit in them make for the opposite . |
| 2 | And all three of them made for the stairs . |
| 3 | What excuse could I make for going out into the garden ? " |
| 4 | What a coil do I make for the loss of my punk |
| 5 | ‘ There are some suggestions I made for changes but this would not prevent me signing it . |
| 6 | I made for the hotel 's main building with several other reporters when a man with an assault rifle appeared and said : ‘ Hit the floor . ’ |
| 7 | I made for the sideboard again to hover . |
| 8 | A harmless grass snake , I concluded , although I must admit that the proximity of the Reptile Centre did make me a touch more circumspect than usual as I made for the summit . |
| 9 | I still possess a tape-recording of a news report I made for Irish radio in which — to a background of Palestinian rifle fire — I hear my own voice informing listeners in the furthest villages of County Mayo that they are listening to ‘ the last shots of the Lebanese civil war ’ . |
| 10 | When both mares began aiding and abetting one another to increase the confusion and alarm , somewhere high over the Gulf I made for the cabin to solicit help . |
| 11 | I had no choice but to leave and I made for the kitchen carrying the dollar on the tray like a trophy anchored by a thumb . |
| 12 | The life-size herd of wild boar I made for it out of cement , roots , mud and loose rubbish such as broken rock and hedge clippings , launched my career five years ago . |
| 13 | This is the truth my lad and the first I made for was for the that , just off Canada , is is New Foundland ? |
| 14 | For each catch or stumping I make for Barnard Castle the Yorkshire exile , a long time proponent of overseas players , will pay 50p . |
| 15 | Yeah , we 're talking about children who you know thirteen , fourteen , fifteen , which are growing up a bit , but we get them altered and we get them made for them , we used to get them made and er still do I think . |
| 16 | I always thought that my Taurean nature — though on the cusp with Aries , looking forward towards another double-image sign , Gemini , which made for imbalance — was far from typical ; but certainly the bull was well and truly there in my strong sexuality . |
| 17 | Lillie Moulton was invited to Fontainebleau in August 1866 on a day of ‘ intolerable heat in a crowded train which made for a highly unpleasant journey ’ . |
| 18 | My eldest sister had a black cauldron suspended from an old iron cooking tripod , this was filled with sawdust and packed with small gifts which made for an attractive lucky dip at tuppence a time . |
| 19 | Green also anxiously records bouts of measles , his youngest son Thomas having fits as a baby , and Joshua being troubled with erysipelas , which made for a tiring journey for him back to Keswick . |
| 20 | Conditions were no better , and possibly worse , on the Ettrick which made for Canada with 220 RCM boys on board . |
| 21 | It seemed , too , that the fusion thing had run its course and become fuzak , which made for too easy listening . |
| 22 | They were too alike , they annoyed and inflamed each other now and then , which made for a tricky situation . |
| 23 | On a more positive note , the expedition did make port at the appointed hour on the appointed day , having spent several hours in a public house further up the estuary to avoid being early , which made for a very ‘ happy ’ reunion . |
| 24 | The other divers were nowhere to be seen at this time , which made for an extremely dangerous situation in the open ocean . |
| 25 | He had no short-term memory , which made for some strange dishes but it kept her safe from him . |
| 26 | In Essay B this fact might be incorporated in argument to show the other factors which made for unification i.e. the power of the army , the Zollverein and economic prosperity etc . |
| 27 | Ravenhill saw the revelations of medicine and eugenics pointing to a greater role for women , not only as mothers but as guardians of those aesthetic qualities which made for physical , intellectual and moral progress . |
| 28 | He also has a collection of Rentokil news letters going back to his early days which made for fascinating reading after dinner . |
| 29 | One such was an Ajdabiyan municipal policeman , one of the body of men employed to enforce local traffic and marketing regulations , rules about the disposal of garbage — all those minor matters which make for such amenity as the growing towns manage to achieve . |
| 30 | We could eventually remove from human life all the characteristics which make for human distress — criminality , war-making , and the like . ’ |