Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] make [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm going to be from now on , ’ he said , ‘ now that I 've made you come . |
| 2 | " At first , " John went on , obviously bent on making a clean breast of everything , " at first when I tell him you a whore , he do n't believe me , so I got to make him believe . |
| 3 | He remembered very clearly that she had made him look a fool . |
| 4 | It 's not that she wants to make you feel cheap . |
| 5 | ‘ I think you manage remarkably well , ’ Helen said , ‘ and the fact that you do makes me wonder if I could hold my party after all . |
| 6 | It is precisely because the best is very good that we want to make it apply to everyone . |
| 7 | And when the blur does clear , we imagine that we have made it do so all by ourselves . |
| 8 | … 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 . |
| 9 | Perhaps it 's that he 's made me look at myself and see that what I believe is old and stuffy . |
| 10 | As I gained confidence in their genuine goodwill I found that my sense of humour returned and I enjoyed making them laugh . |
| 11 | I love the songs they write for me and I try to make it look that way in the style in which I deliver it , ’ she added modestly . |
| 12 | Robert said , ‘ I 'm sorry if I 've made you change any plans you had for today . ’ |
| 13 | THE wife of golf star Fred Couples claims he has frozen her out of their marriage — and she intends to make him pay for it . |
| 14 | I started buying every issue of Tennis World after Capriati 's looks and sheer dedication in every match she has played , brought me into tennis and she has made me become an addict . |
| 15 | If you get through that you 've got to give the balloon a good hard squirt to make it burn , and if you do make it burn it goes up with a hell of a whoomph and you 've still got to get away . ’ |
| 16 | Your lordship may see the print of my affection scored across the back of his left hand and wrist , if you care to make him hand you his manor roll tomorrow . |
| 17 | But the Pru was not centralised , so we tried their methodology and we 've made it work . |
| 18 | Three of our next four games are at home and we need to make them count , ’ he added . |
| 19 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 20 | Ronald Chalmers 's term of office as vice-chairman had been a year only , he said , and he had made it know that he did not want to be considered for an office-bearer 's position . |
| 21 | HE 'S the wackiest cop on TV — and he aims to make you groan like never before as he tries to crack his latest case . |
| 22 | The Trevino era has been a special time of my life and he 's made me feel special . |
| 23 | Not that I want to kill anybody now , but it is all for defence rather than offence , and it does make me feel a lot more secure . |
| 24 | Lesley-Jane Decker had seen someone or something in the wings the previous night and it had made her scream . |
| 25 | And it had made him feel big in a way that had nothing to do with macho trappings . |
| 26 | I 've learnt a lot , my job depends on me driving and it 's made me realise how much I can drink , how much I ca n't drink , what I can drink and realising about road accidents . |
| 27 | ‘ You see , we 've only just eaten our lessons for today , and it 's made us feel rather sick . ’ |
| 28 | But it would be nice to be told that he was all the same , even if it did make me feel a bit sad . ’ |
| 29 | If he 's made me believe them , that means he 's made a large part of the new me . |
| 30 | But I had to make him keep you on . |