Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] make [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment , local authorities , which are supposed to police many of the new controls , do not have either the expertise or the money to make them work . |
| 2 | You analyse a poem as having an especially regular rhyme scheme ; you also find that the poem makes you feel cheerful . |
| 3 | I think that the rain makes it come and the paint wears off and you can see it . |
| 4 | ‘ No ! ’ he said , so relieved when it was out that the recoil made him faint and set him shaking . |
| 5 | Although the neighbours made me feel like an evil , uncaring daughter , I knew in my heart that you 'd understand because you always did — I loved you and that was all you needed to know . |
| 6 | But this is not a work of criticism , nor an attempt to make you like The Faerie Queene or the Confessio Amantis . |
| 7 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 8 | If the mechanism made us faint , or vomit , or have a heart attack , then as cavemen we would have made very easy prey every time we encountered an animal we feared . |
| 9 | It is alleged that I am unpunctual sometimes , so certain members of the party arranged with the driver and the guard to make me run for the train . |
| 10 | I mimicked his slow accent , and the mimicry made him turn and stare at me , and the look on his face instantly made me regret my mimicry . |
| 11 | And the consequences made her shudder . |
| 12 | Memory of the event and the inconvenience made her chuckle . |
| 13 | The river bottom was ridged sand , a difficult and unkind footing , that combined with the cold and the rush to make me want to go fast while forcing me to go slow . |
| 14 | We clean him up and the caveman makes us look cool . |
| 15 | He remembered how fondly Jane had said farewell after her anger had abated , and the memory made him lift his hand to see , in the first creeping light of dawn , the small smear of rouge that still remained on his forefinger . |
| 16 | The skills of the midwives were everything I could have wished for and the NCT made me feel as if I was a useful part of the whole process . |
| 17 | They are played with much understanding , affection and polish , and the orchestra makes them sound very fresh . |
| 18 | The last two jobs are arguably the most important , the finish on the runners to make the sled slide , and the brake to make it stop . |
| 19 | Although he had the pride and the carriage to make it look easy , he was often terrified . |
| 20 | But the colonies were run on a shoe-string and generated explosive tensions ; both officers and men loathed the system , and the attempt to make it pay by imposing the most detailed and humiliating regulations sparked off repeated risings . |
| 21 | But I do believe that Nick Serota and the Tate chairman Dennis Stevenson have the sense of purpose and the energy to make it happen . |
| 22 | The noise was terrible and the stench made them retch . |
| 23 | My order will not succeed as an order unless the person I am talking to is obliged to clean their boots ( condition 3 ) , and I have the right and the power to make them do so ( condition 4 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Do you think God would give me the vision and no way to make it come true ? |
| 25 | People already knew about the plight of the rainforests through TV and newspapers , but the ball made them read about it again . ’ |
| 26 | I thought at one time I saw signs of a recovery ; but the event makes me fear that I was not heard … |
| 27 | You could see that the pain of standing was more than it could bear , and it struggled to be allowed to collapse again but the owners made it walk : led it away stumbling on three legs with the fourth jutting out sideways . |
| 28 | Then he took the clipping down again because the photograph made her look thin . |
| 29 | ‘ I was attracted to it because the script made me laugh and it 's a splendid play . |
| 30 | Going on again on the tenant farmers , I actually think that er we are very good landlords and I think our our our tenants would rather us keep us as landlords than the private sector , in actual fact we will have no doubt a debate quite soon on that issue when the government makes us sell off all areas of of er th our interests and that one , I will tell you this , I think that some of the members all sides of the fence every side of the fence , have been passionately behind the tenants , if if they 're gon na be sold off by now they 'd have been sold off , but I think it wo n't be far long before we have to take education first , social services first , the elderly before er your side with your government to come forward and say to us we do n't want you interfering with anything like that and being bold business , get rid of , but that 's another debate that will come up later on . |