Example sentences of "[vb -s] to make [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ IBM needs to make something happen with OS/2 2.1 , or it 's facing the possibility of being a niche product for a very long time . ’ |
| 2 | She has just taken office as president of the British Computer Society , and needs to make it jump from the seventies , where some believe it is still stuck , into the nineties . |
| 3 | All the book needs to make it worthy of recommendation as an introduction to this enjoyable branch of mathematics is a health warning like the one on the tobacco advertisements : ‘ Reading this book can damage your understanding of physical reality ’ . |
| 4 | But that was nasty man , he wants to make her tit Urgh ! |
| 5 | Then someone called out , in that half-loud , half-soft way of someone who wants to make themselves heard while at the same time remaining as quiet as possible . |
| 6 | She wants to make me colour co-ordinated . |
| 7 | Ludo wants to make me a cup of hot chocolate . |
| 8 | I also think that we must be the place where programmes get made because nobody else wants to make them , nobody else would make them . |
| 9 | The courts will not stop publication of defamatory statements in any case where the person who wants to make them is prepared to defend . |
| 10 | One of the most controversial — and praised — bosses in American industry , he now wants to make his firm ‘ boundary-less ’ . |
| 11 | The retailer wants to make his business as profitable as possible . |
| 12 | The householder who wants to make his or her home more secure has no scientific formula to work from : domestic security is simply a matter of good old-fashioned common sense . |
| 13 | IF Major wants to make his mark he wants to fire the damn Treasury . |
| 14 | His appetite for fights and , of course , making money is such that he wants to make his pile as quickly as possible and get out . ’ |
| 15 | It 's not that she wants to make you feel cheap . |
| 16 | She wants to make you feel the cheapest ever Spryly She-She left the room . |
| 17 | Anyway , like I said , she wants to make you some food , man . |
| 18 | In other words , he wants to make it legally impossible for the shareholders , who employ him , to sell their shares to the highest bidder . |
| 19 | He wants to make it permanent . |
| 20 | He also wants to make it clear that he 's not ‘ a Unix-on-the-desktop basher . |
| 21 | He wants to make it easier for Government Departments to carry out projects using private investors and the commercial banks . |
| 22 | Langer has won seven European PGA tournaments in Germany , four German Opens , two German Masters and one Honda Open and wants to make it eight . |
| 23 | The National Association of the Self-employed and Small Businesses wants to make it a criminal offence to issue cheques that are returned unpaid because no funds are available in the drawer 's account . |
| 24 | The Government also wants to make it easier for people to obtain a drinks licence and to water down the power of licensing magistrates , who currently have absolute discretion to refuse applications , often without giving a reason . |
| 25 | He wants to make 'em do n't he or summat ? |
| 26 | Virgin wants to make itself less vulnerable , and it thinks it can do so by offering even better service to more passengers flying to more places . |
| 27 | ‘ Theda , there is someone who wants to make your acquaintance . ’ |
| 28 | But they are brought together , in successive books , by the force of this preoccupation , and the reader has to make what he can of the resemblance between two figures quite remote from one another in any coarser understanding of the matter , to do this while adjusting his sight to a vista of copycats , impostors and successive interpretations — a vista which is far from unfamiliar now and can be caught , for instance , in the productions and reproductions of contemporary literary theory . |
| 29 | These are portraits of the artist who grows up in an age of revolutionary socialism and who has to make what he can of it . |
| 30 | Someone once said to me , ‘ Nature creates women , but society has to make its own men . ’ |