Example sentences of "[noun] to make [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All he needed , he sometimes thought , was a trunk to make him look exactly like an elephant . |
| 2 | O'Brien suspects northern influence was brought to bear on Dick Spring to make him change his tune . |
| 3 | These trees , in full sunlight , were growing more vigorously than the forest trees and produced enough pods to make our life easier . |
| 4 | Counselling enables clients to make their own decisions and find their own solutions |
| 5 | But although she opened her mouth to make it quite clear to her infuriating parent that she was not , never would be , and never wanted to even think about being in love with Luke Hunter , somehow the words would n't come . |
| 6 | For a minute or two longer she panned the camera , too much the professional to allow her pleasure to make her risk missing another good shot . |
| 7 | And , anyway , it was from the British he made his money , selling them scrap iron during the war , so it will be an extra pleasure to make him cough up that sort of loot . ’ |
| 8 | A pleasure to make your acquaintance , sir . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The circumstances are regrettable , but it is my pleasure to make you as comfortable as possible . |
| 10 | Pictures formed in her mind of bloody-minded leading hands and a frowning chief telegraphist , all of them men and all of them waiting , grim-faced , for Bainbridge , L. V. to make her first mistake ; a mistake so terrible that talk of its consequences would reverberate around the Home Fleet for years to come . |
| 11 | The first way is for each department to make its own plans without much regard to the others . |
| 12 | One clubs , Wasps , decided to wait until Saturday to make their decision , much to the annoyance of their opponents , Harlequins , who had forked out £1,500 for an overnight stay in a hotel . |
| 13 | Murray 's club-mate , Tom McKean , has set his store on the World Indoors but first he has a personal score to settle with his GB team-mate , David Sharpe , who pipped him on Saturday to make it 1-1 between them indoors this winter . |
| 14 | If we can actually demonstrate that , but you 've got ta see a significant improvement in your productivity on a Saturday to make it worth your while . |
| 15 | this happens automatically with a 1×1 rib , but when we come to the 2×2 ribs we have to take steps to make it happen . |
| 16 | Luckily she had proof , because she did n't think it was going to take long before he took steps to make it seem as if she 'd made a criminally stupid error . |
| 17 | ‘ With regard to the discretion of a judge as to costs , which is given by Order LXV , r. 1 , of the Rules of the Supreme Court , it is , I think , common practice for parties to make their own agreements as to the costs … and such agreements are perfectly valid and enforceable . |
| 18 | It takes a lot of gratuitous cruelty perpetrated in the name of dogma to make him criticize the Party , as when the ‘ Attack the Evil Winds of Capitalism Team ’ tells the old peasant Guo Lao-da to kill the six ‘ capitalist ’ ducks he owns . |
| 19 | The connections between these three issues need to be kept in mind , although opportunities for the internal reformer to make them effectively will greatly vary . |
| 20 | And we have more plans for the future to make it the ultimate private leisure club . |
| 21 | Marwood , the League 's leading scorer with 224 points , added both goals to make it 18-12 . |
| 22 | Whereas I hardly ever break a string ; I mean , you do n't have to hit your guitar with a hammer to make it sound loud . ’ |
| 23 | The law will also sweep away the previous 20% limit on foreign investment in privatised firms , in a bid to make them more attractive to international fund managers . |
| 24 | This involved changes in the refuelling system ; it was a bid to make it easier to obtain weapons-grade plutonium . |
| 25 | The Owton Manor Primary School pupil from Hartlepool had his left leg broken and pinned in a bid to make it grow longer . |
| 26 | ‘ We knew Wednesday had problems at the back when long balls were played at them , so it came as no surprise when we scored on the break to make it 1–1 . ’ |
| 27 | For your first flight , choose a day with some wind to make it easier to keep the wings level and to keep the glider straight . |
| 28 | Birkdale does n't need a lot of wind to make it tough like some links courses . |
| 29 | For instance , there could be a steady reduction in the amount of transmitter released by the presynaptic cell , or a modification of the receptors on the postsynaptic side to make them less responsive to a given amount of transmitter released , or both mechanisms could be operating . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll finish his bed and get him to lie on his side to make it easy for thee . |