Example sentences of "make [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , it has actually worked , erm , in that it seems that there 's a very fair chance that er , in spite of the very discouraging things that were said by some of the people on my right when I moved this , erm , there is a very good chance now for a reasonable er , settlement in South Africa , which I think should erm , make everyone in this chamber very happy , and it is that , undoubtedly the case that economic pressure had a great deal to do with that . |
| 2 | Let a rug or painting suggest or inspire the colour scheme ; if you ca n't revamp old curtains ( though beware ! re-making can sometimes be just as expensive as starting afresh ) turn them into cushions ; cut down carpets which no longer fit but are too good to be thrown out , and make them into small rugs . |
| 3 | Claims to have found new mechanisms of evolution are common in the press , but they rarely make it into respectable science journals . |
| 4 | Make it into coloured juice . |
| 5 | Do n't waste stale bread — make it into dried breadcrumbs for coating fried food . |
| 6 | This formal writing-up took nearly twenty years : it is one thing to collect data , and another to evaluate it and make it into public knowledge . |
| 7 | And if , as seems extremely likely , Middlesbrough make it into next season 's premier league , an initial payment of at least £2m from television rights could be expected . |
| 8 | I suppose about one and a half yards , perhaps not that , square and in the corner there was what they called , what we had the copper for boiling the clothes , make it with small coal and , and coal and wood and paper and boil the water and , and my mother used to do the washing there and we had a big old mangle with wooden rollers out in the back yard , that was always out in the back yard . |
| 9 | It is , perhaps , salutary to reflect upon how difficult we make it for older people to use the range of leisure facilities provided either because of physical access problems , inappropriate classes and high entry costs . |
| 10 | The court may , if satisfied that sufficient grounds are shown for the appointment , make it on such terms as it thinks fit ( r6.51(6) ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Speechwriters never make it to secret agent , ’ he observed , perhaps wistfully , |
| 12 | The single-storey houses have roofs of corrugated cardboard , and are built of hollow red bricks called tejole , which the people make themselves with crude machines . |
| 13 | You make lots of extra work for your Mum you do , when you do this do n't you ? |