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Example sentences for "make some"

  • She answers timidly that she only wants to make some enquiries.

  • Before I left the house she told me that, as she was in want of money, she felt disposed to make some abatement on the price of twenty-five louis.

  • The next day, the moment the doctor had gone, she sent her maid out to make some purchases.

  • She got into the carriage and, saying that she wanted to make some purchases, begged me to take her to the shops.

  • I come now to make some use of and to apply this blessed doctrine of the undertaking of Jesus Christ, and of his paying full price to God for sinners, and of his obtaining eternal redemption for them.

  • Then have I begun to make some use of that good sermon which this little child has preached unto me; and thus have I gone on.

  • I come now to make some use of this discourse; and, USE FIRST, Let me exhort you to the study of this, as of other the truths of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Let us now, then, make some use of this doctrine.

  • I mean to make some figure in the world; I know no other use of fortune; and an alliance with the Germaines brings me at once into fashionable society.

  • It happened one day that a lady, richly appareled and attended by two female slaves, came to my brother's house to make some purchases.

  • No, hardened as I was, I never failed to make some compliment, or some retribution; and my compliments were often in the end the most expensive species of retribution.

  • And you shall not be the worse for obliging me; I will never employ any body else, and I shall have occasion for you very soon, as I intend to make some alterations at Violet-Bank that will be very considerable.

  • Here she waited, with tolerable patience, for half an hour, but then, imagining the boy had forgotten to tell his master she was in the house, she thought it expedient to make some enquiry.

  • They soon after separated to make some alteration in their dress, and then, calling in their way for Mrs Mears, they proceeded to the Pantheon.

  • I paused at that, waiting for him to make some suggestion.

  • For I could not doubt that this was what the bow of velvet meant; still less that it was intended for me, since few save myself would be likely to recognise it, and she would naturally expect me to make some attempt at pursuit.

  • I was about to make some excuse to retire with him, when a harsh voice, addressed apparently to me, caused me to turn sharply.

  • I have been importuned to make some observations on this art in relation to its agreement with poetry.

  • Make some reservation of your wrongs.

  • Before I proceed to make some additions to the reasons which have been adduced by my honorable friend over the way, I must take the liberty to make some observations on what was said by another gentleman (Mr. Henry).

  • I will, in the course of my observations, make some remarks on the last supposition.

  • The man may come back this way, and if so, he might hear the horse stamp or make some movement, and that would at once put him on his guard.

  • We are sure to make some captures, for it is probable that several of the others will bear marks of the fight.

  • The method which they employ for obtaining the liquid from the tree is to make some cuts or incisions in the trunk and the thicker branches; and out of these is distilled and flows a clear, sweet water, in ample quantities.

  • As we have already treated of their languages, it would be advisable to make some mention of their letters.

  • In addition to the dowry the husband is wont to make some presents to the parents and relatives--more or less, according to his means.

  • Clemens and Jean had driven out to make some calls, and had stopped at a villa, which promised to fulfil most of the requirements.

  • On his way home he stopped in a general store, kept by a man named Sehns, to make some purchases.

  • No indeed; we want the fun of helping to make some of the cake for to-morrow.

  • Do you expect to make some stay in our town?

  • If I could git some one to go with me, I'd tackle the job, but I vum if every time I perpose it to anyone they don't make some excuse.

  • I was about to make some reply, when my attention was attracted by a very singular appearance of moisture at the foot of a fig-tree under which we were passing.

  • I was about to make some reply, when our attention was attracted by a shout at no great distance, and in a few seconds we observed, to our confusion, the trader and a band of negroes approaching us.

  • Cut down two stout poles, and we'll make some sort of litter to carry him on.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    make answer; make any; make arrangements; make believe; make bread; make contracts; make ends; make fire; make from; make further; make inquiries; make laws; make life; make matters; make mention; make merry; make mistakes; make shift; make smooth; make their; make them; make treaties; make use; makes them; operated upon; shooting stars