Example sentences of "[prep] making [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was pretty obvious he was after making me look like a rent boy . |
| 2 | After making us laugh so much in Norway , almost everyone assumed Our Boys would beat the mighty USA . |
| 3 | The possibilities for recasting the UK accounts are being examined , with the intention of making them reflect the real resource use , or output contribution , of the public sector , rather than simply its share of expenditure . |
| 4 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |
| 5 | One reason is that women , particularly in the Third World , are often not aware of the real dangers of contraception because health staff and pharmaceutical companies keep them in ignorance for fear of making them stay away from the clinic . |
| 6 | The majority were in rural areas and the traffic densities were so low that there was no prospect of making them pay . |
| 7 | So a policy of making them pay , sit down and shut up at football matches will not make any difference . |
| 8 | Waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen . |
| 9 | The vagueness of some of the " Activities " tends to cause recurring difficulty , and I can only assume that Durant and Fabb have their own ways of making them work . |
| 10 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 11 | Erm , obviously one needs to change peoples ideas or change the way we do things or whatever , erm two relevant position that 's sort of making them believe in what they 're trying to erm , propose , and getting commitment at the end . |
| 12 | In the longer term , is there a risk that in focusing attention on such ‘ hard core ’ racist groups there is a danger of making them seem glamorous ? |
| 13 | Next Derek came up with the bright idea of making me walk to see how far I could get . |
| 14 | He had an uncanny way of making me feel simple . |
| 15 | Again I wondered at Edward 's way of making me feel like the useless son out of a folk-tale who had stumbled by chance into the hollow hills . |
| 16 | And of course , when this all happened , and I 'm listening to what people are saying tonight , it 's it 's sort of making me feel a bit sick what they 're saying . |
| 17 | " Well , why the bloody Hell did n't you say so out there when we was with them instead of making me look like a bloody fool ? " |
| 18 | However natural it is , it still has the effect of making me cry when I catch sight of myself and nurses have visibly cringed upon seeing them . |
| 19 | This has the immediate effect of making her look like an extremely expensive deco doll . |
| 20 | Immediately , he began trying to predict Simon 's responses , to work out ways of soothing him , of flattering him , of making him laugh , anything that might defuse that aggression or at least make sure that Simon directed it at someone else . |
| 21 | ‘ Wait , James — what is the use of making him pretend to powers ? ’ |
| 22 | He complained that they should be looking after him instead of making him do all ‘ this nonsense ’ . |
| 23 | It was decided not to try to smuggle Hess out on the courier run , although the idea of making him do a parachute drop at his age seemed risky and wrong-headed to the Englishman , if not malicious . |
| 24 | His reappearance in 2010 decisively resolves this , at the cost of making him come on like a Californian religious freak about ‘ something wonderful ’ . |
| 25 | This punctuation would have made some difference to the reader 's processing of the sentence ; [ 14 ] in particular would have made the " click " seem a matter of importance and surprise in its own right , dividing the reader 's attention between the two events , instead of making him see them as integral parts of a whole . |
| 26 | As might be expected , Evangelicals were inclined to reprove those who were reluctant to have the sacrament administered to a gravely ill patient for fear of making him lose hope of recovery . |
| 27 | She had a better way of rupturing that patient impassivity , of making him look at her . |
| 28 | Many people will say that they do not have the time to pause before acting , but this is a false economy ; if you do not pause then nature has ways of making you stop through illness . |
| 29 | That 's why they give you the money instead of making you pay . |
| 30 | That 's that 's we have maki we have ways of making you think . |