Example sentences of "[noun sg] to make [pers pn] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The circumstances are regrettable , but it is my pleasure to make you as comfortable as possible . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And we have more plans for the future to make it the ultimate private leisure club . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This involved changes in the refuelling system ; it was a bid to make it easier to obtain weapons-grade plutonium . |
| 12 | The Owton Manor Primary School pupil from Hartlepool had his left leg broken and pinned in a bid to make it grow longer . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Birkdale does n't need a lot of wind to make it tough like some links courses . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll finish his bed and get him to lie on his side to make it easy for thee . |
| 18 | A pitcher can spin a baseball to make it follow a trajectory in any direction . |
| 19 | Surely if I know all this I should be able to put on just enough weight to make me feel comfortable , or at least stop losing any more ? |
| 20 | If you find deep gravel paths in your local park , write to your local parks department and ask that the paths instead be covered with firmly rolled gravel to make them suitable for use by wheelchair users . |
| 21 | Apart from terrifying him into submission , there is no surefast remedy to make him comply with your wishes . |
| 22 | The house needs remedial action to make it safe , but who has to bear the cost of this work ? |
| 23 | When I had a lock that was sticking what did I blow What powder I did I blow into the lock to make it work better ? |
| 24 | Nissan , having launched two attractive new models in the Primera , which replaces the Bluebird , and the new Sunny ( now called Pulsar ) , and having established a highly productive and effective factory in the north-east to make them , now seems to be attempting to undo all it has achieved by going to war with the key to successful sales , the dealer network . |
| 25 | He does not require an imperative to make him avoid the sickness from the thought of which he already shrinks in nausea ; what he has to force himself to do is hold on to the fact that sickness is the likely outcome of yielding to temptation . |
| 26 | Even finding food was difficult , as Filon , the Empress 's secretary , discovered when he went to find some soup for her in an attempt to make her eat after nearly 36 hours with virtually nothing : |
| 27 | However , the tenant should not be subjected to oppressive powers of inspection and he should resist an attempt to make him pay the costs of an inspection , although it would be fair that he should pay the costs if there is a material discrepancy between the information supplied by him and the results of an inspection . |
| 28 | After the events of 1968 it was renamed ‘ The Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters ' ’ which was an attempt to make us restrict our goals . |
| 29 | They have already said it to the Wilson Committee : we are doing our best to preserve the value of the funds entrusted to us , and any attempt to force us to invest in projects offering sub-optimal returns for ‘ social ’ reasons is an attempt to make us break faith with our customers . |
| 30 | But this is not a work of criticism , nor an attempt to make you like The Faerie Queene or the Confessio Amantis . |