Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [verb] make [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , an analogy that I think helps to make this clear is that the ego after all is a managerial agency . |
| 2 | It could well be that someone has tried to make this look like murder followed by suicide . ’ |
| 3 | She regretted that she had had to make this incoherent and disingenuous speech , partly because , as she went on , she had begun to listen to what she was saying and had realized that at some level her apprehensions about her family were justified . |
| 4 | ‘ I also liked the idea of producing images of people in the public eye which do n't adhere to the unwritten rule of portraiture — that you 've got to make some kind of personal comment about the sitter , capture their essence , if you like — which , at twenty four , I did n't feel particularly qualified to do . |
| 5 | the , the , the implication is always erm that you 've got to make some sort of choice between do we get the social change first , which gives rise to a different kind of people , better people , or do we first of all change the people so that they 're capable of making a better world and of course it 's a catch twenty two , is n't it ? |
| 6 | I want to make her better but you ca n't do that so you 've got to make some effort . |
| 7 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
| 8 | The girls were very bright with one nine-year-old working on her machine from six in the morning to six at night — so we did manage to make some progress . |
| 9 | Christmas is a very social time and we 've tried to make this a social newsletter . |
| 10 | I certainly would not want to attempt a summary of the route we have taken all the way from the mind-body problem to children trying to win chocolates ; but I do need to make some concluding comments to justify the bold claim in the first paragraph that constructivism makes the mind-body problem less intractable . |
| 11 | But you do have to make this nomination whilst you are employed in reckonable service . |
| 12 | In this instance , I do not particularly welcome this debate , because I regret having to make these points tonight in this way . |
| 13 | First of all , though , I must apologise because we have had to make some changes to the staffing for our next training day on 22nd September . |
| 14 | When he did try to make some real contribution to society , it seemed that all he got for his trouble was The Prince was too sensitive , too intelligent , to play the part mapped out for him , the part that his courtiers were there to help maintain . |
| 15 | Thus the British government acquired a powder-mill of its own in 1759 , though it seems to have made little use of it , and another in 1787 . |