Example sentences of "to make we [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lies are essential in life , says Professor Loyal Rue — not only do we lie to others , we tell ourselves fibs to make us feel better . |
| 2 | The excitement of The Place of the Lion is in its power to shake the reader up — to make us feel that the world is not the place we thought it was . |
| 3 | But he uses all his very considerable art to make us feel Isaac 's and Esau 's pain . |
| 4 | We have even constructed elaborate theories to make us feel better about the lives older people lead . |
| 5 | Its original function , according to Seth , was to make us feel bad , by briefly separating us from our sense of love and connectedness , so that we would not repeat a harmful act . |
| 6 | They do this to make us feel that we are significant — they are recognising the customer as an individual . |
| 7 | Shakespeare uses it to make us feel how complex and deeply inward is the knot of life , the knot which , while it remains tied , causes Cleopatra to be alive rather than dead . |
| 8 | Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’ |
| 9 | They looked down on us silently , and did nothing to make us feel happier . |
| 10 | Well that 's what I 'm saying , you know drugs erm , well you 're looking at society where we 're given drugs to make us feel better . |
| 11 | As she gave a brief nod he continued , ‘ The Meadowses have been incredibly kind , and are obviously doing what they can to make us feel welcome . |
| 12 | But as elsewhere , we are given a little ‘ staff-room ’ to relax in , and are plied with cups of tea and cigarettes at all times , to make us feel at home . |
| 13 | He does n't come with a lot pious platitudes and and charming words to make us feel better . |
| 14 | The government has tried to make us go underground and treats us just as if we were " outlaws " but we remain determined to maintain our public protest . |
| 15 | Underarm deodorant to make us smell nice when we 're going out to a party ? |
| 16 | It is almost as if Big Brother begrudges us our pleasures and has decided to make us realise there are other things going on in the world other than cricket . |
| 17 | I think it 's to make us realise that you get punished for what you do , but it does n't 20 work like that . |
| 18 | … is that it tends to make us perceive and evaluate formula literature simply as an inferior or perverted form of something better , instead of seeing the ‘ escapist ’ characteristics as aspects of an artistic type with its own purposes and justification . |
| 19 | But this difficulty is not enough to make us abandon the theory . |
| 20 | As for ‘ clinging to the Union Jack ’ , maybe Morrissey is trying to reclaim the flag from the right , maybe he 's trying to make us think about what we have ‘ in common with the frightening skinheads ’ . |
| 21 | We did n't know that something was going to happen to make us think it really was the last mission for all of us ’ . |
| 22 | The main one has been to make us think more closely about how the visual system might be organized . |
| 23 | They want to make us think we 're always progressing , always going forward . |
| 24 | In the years since , we 've kept a Northern Ireland file , and a few months ago we had collected enough encouraging evidence to make us think that a concerted effort would enable us to name the man most consistently pointed at as being in control of the IRA , Martin McGuinness . |
| 25 | Various schemes are being put in place to make us think carefully about giving our waste a new lease of life . |
| 26 | Of course , record companies are always going to want you to have a hit , but as far as what we do , they just have to look at our albums and try to pick out something they can exploit that way , after the event , as compared to trying to make us sit down and write a hit . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | David Dye Installation and Sculpture , Cleveland County Gallery , Middlesbrough ( Until March 25 ) CLEARLY it is David Dye 's intention to provoke , to make us reexamine a number of basic tenets . |
| 29 | This is enough in itself to make us want to reject conditioned attention theory as it is presently formulated . |
| 30 | But it is certainly enough to make us want to persist with our exploration of this theory and to examine in some detail ( in Chapter 7 ) the various possible explanations for the effect . |