Example sentences of "make [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parallels , such as they are , between 511 and 561 , together with the arrangements made to cope with the death of Charibert , lend a spurious uniformity to the divisions of the Merovingian kingdom , but one which is , at first sight , supported by the events of 595 . |
| 2 | Rising real wages made subletting as a means of supplementing income less essential and , among the unemployed , the household means test made letting rooms a more difficult proposition . |
| 3 | The investment they make goes into a fund combining equities , fixed interest and cash . |
| 4 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 5 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 6 | We were ordered into the service area off the kitchen and made to sit on the floor . |
| 7 | When they got out they were taken inside a building and made to sit on a stone floor that was gritty and unswept . |
| 8 | Tobie made to sit in a chair and then desisted , because it was inlaid and foreign and breakable . |
| 9 | Residents have been tied to chairs and beds , made to sit in restraining chairs , zipped into cocoon sleeping bags or put into high cot-sided beds which restrict night movement . |
| 10 | The suggestions they make build in the views described in section 9-3-1 , as follows : |
| 11 | But , today , rapid changes in life expectancy , provision of international aid and the availability of birth control make forecasting for periods greater than five years difficult . |
| 12 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 13 | But the sound she now made in her throat brought both Aggie and Ben 's eyes on her , and as she turned and fled from the room and Ben made to go after her , Aggie 's voice halted him , saying firmly , ‘ Leave her be ! |
| 14 | But he never made to go after you at all . |
| 15 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 16 | The new rules for taxing manufactured interest , payments made to compensate for the loss of interest , where for instance a security is ‘ sold cum interest ’ but acquired by the seller ex interest in order to meet the sale , took effect on 29 June 1992 and apply from 30 June 1992 . |
| 17 | Ms Fancourt was superb and Ms Coyne would make walking to the bus stop seem a provocative and elegant statement . |
| 18 | Most controversially , they recommended stronger police powers to search and arrest brothel-keepers and make soliciting on the streets illegal . |
| 19 | An independent Central Bank might provide such a restraint , and so might the constitutional amendment , suggested in Friedman and Friedman ( 1980 ) , which obliges the government to expand the money stock at some fixed rate and which would make cheating on this obligation illegal . |
| 20 | In whatever format you keep them , the notes you make need to be clear ; if they are not self-explanatory at the time you write them , they are unlikely to be intelligible later , when your memory of working on the particular book or topic has faded . |
| 21 | We do appreciate the efforts you make to come to the meeting and in case you were worried the bar will be open in the Oak Room now . |
| 22 | Whilst physical infirmity may make physical care of great significance to the old person and mental infirmity may limit their capacity to give and receive other kinds of care , the efforts we make to relate to the whole person are critical if we are to avoid the stigmatising and depersonalising processes which insult the integrity of the old person . |
| 23 | They seem to have this idea about natural talent and any kid who shows the slightest promise is put into sport and made to concentrate on that . |
| 24 | The combination of the poor visibility , together with the misting up of the canopy and the effects of the rain on the stall , make launching in rain foolhardy and almost always pointless from the point of view of achieving a soaring flight . |
| 25 | Each one of the forty women made some attempt to complete the test , though the number of statements made varied from three to eleven , with an average of 8.03 out of the desired ten per respondent . |
| 26 | It added : ‘ They also saw students from a college being ordered out in front of the building , made to stand against the wall , and shot dead . |
| 27 | The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " . |
| 28 | The noise fifteen excited youngsters make has to be heard to be believed . |
| 29 | What does make living for Jesus at school a lot easier is to know that you are not alone ; that there are other Christians who agree with what you believe and who can maybe encourage you when the going gets a bit tough . |
| 30 | Make do with the absolute minimum . |