Example sentences of "make [noun pl] for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Macdonald , I thought , would probably know about Andrew Stavanger 's dentist — she might well have made appointments for him in the past . |
| 2 | Sometimes they made weapons for themselves by bedding razor-blades in potatoes . |
| 3 | But I well I will make arrangements for it to be opened of course |
| 4 | But , rightly , ICI is acting as if a bid is imminent , preparing its defences and making plans for itself in a way that guarantees that much will change at the firm . |
| 5 | When they lock the man up with Jim and John and Henry and Mary and Dolores and Grace — I hope they will give him access to books , with paper enough for him to go on making translations for us from the classics such as we have never seen except at his hands in our language . |
| 6 | Similarly , a company is only making problems for itself by creating a norm of people working extra hours , putting staff under stress which impacts on their home lives and which probably does not achieve greater productivity since it is commonly believed that working beyond 40 to 50 hours a weeks results in time spent which is increasingly unproductive . |
| 7 | People making decisions for you at that level , but the point I 'm trying to make is our society 's much more complicated and much more sophisticated now in the way that arrangements are made , the decision making for the community . |
| 8 | British politicians have persistently rejected the view that they should be regarded as delegates , arguing instead that their duty is to make judgements for themselves in terms of their understanding of their constituents ' best interests , while recognizing that they may , of course , be rejected at the next election if they become seriously out of touch with the people they represent . |
| 9 | The students seemed to gain in confidence in their ability to make decisions for themselves about what to teach and showed increasing understanding of the need to vary and sequence activities in the course of a lesson . |