Example sentences of "[verb] make [pron] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this involvement has led people to question their abilities and outlook on their jobs and has made them see that they are capable of doing things ( with a little training and encouragement ) they never dreamed possible a few months ago . |
| 2 | If you want to get them to look at something new , you 've got to make them see . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Then you 'll have to make him see sense if I ca n't , Alice . |
| 4 | Temperament and conviction combined to make him see this moment , not as one of intriguing human possibilities , but as one offering an unofficial means to an official end . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , Jens and Hanne are dairy farmers and can not spend time away from their stock to find him and try to make him see sense . ’ |
| 6 | If she had only tried to make him see … |
| 7 | He compares war in modern circumstances with a plague , and tries to make us see that we have exactly the same universal common interest in transcending military conflict that we have in getting plague under control , and that it 's necessary to use all our intelligence and imagination to break the millennial connection of intersocial change with war , and then he goes on to make practical proposals . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , with all the things we 've discussed , the way you 've made me see myself , I 've decided I should n't stick around here . ’ |
| 9 | Eva could be snobby , that was obvious , but if I saw something , or heard a piece of music , or visited a place , I would n't be content until Eva had made me see it in a certain way . |
| 10 | ‘ We must finish with totally relevant insights about how big business had made us see nature today . |
| 11 | ‘ She 's right , ’ said Dad , somewhat magisterially , when I went to him later and told him what she 'd said , trying to make him see how demented it was . |
| 12 | She loved this man , and he seemed determined , because of some misplaced sense of responsibility , to keep them together , yet she was trying to make him see that it just could n't be — for his own sake . |
| 13 | I kept trying to make you see that something exceptional was happening , but I could n't tell you straight out because love , my darling , left me without defence . |
| 14 | These new men have made me see form , have made me more conscious of the sky where it juts down between houses , of the bright patterns of sunlight which the bath water throws up on the ceiling , of the great ‘ Vs ’ of light that dart through the chinks over the curtain rings , all these are new chords , new keys of design . |
| 15 | Since Proust wrote these words painters and writers have revealed other beauties to us — they have made us see the poetry of factory canteens and metro stations , the romance of cog-wheels , iron girders , bombed buildings , dustbins and pylons . |
| 16 | f The past 3 years have made us see how very interested GPs can be with this group . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , that 's the first thing we have to make him see , then we need to get him to come in for regular counselling sessions . ’ |