Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] make sure " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I mean to make sure he does . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I hope it sustains him on his long journey into obscurity , because I intend to make sure Michael Stein never works in the travel industry again . ’ |
| 3 | In fact , when he does eventually get out of gaol I intend to make sure he never again sets foot on any boat or property owned by my companies . ’ |
| 4 | Someone has to make sure Wellington has heard this news . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I want to make sure that everything is in order , ’ Frau Nordern said , grimly , as they crossed the square . |
| 6 | Lord O'Hagan , the group 's social affairs spokesman , said : ‘ I object to being misrepresented and I want to make sure that this sort of thing does not happen again . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I want to make sure you got everything you need . |
| 8 | So I said that instead of our leaving tomorrow or Sunday it might be best to wait until Monday so that I can see the bank manager at Gullshaven ; I want to make sure that Fru Gertlinger and Fru Børre are paid regularly . |
| 9 | I want to make sure my flat extension roof is waterproof for winter . |
| 10 | " Aaah , it 's this party tonight , I want to make sure everything 's ready . " |
| 11 | I want to make sure my movements are perfect . ’ |
| 12 | What I want to make sure first of all is that erm you understand what has gone on before the scene that we actually want to find ourselves in . |
| 13 | I want to make sure that Hemsworth can continue to be proud of its history . |
| 14 | I do n't want it to be questionable I want I want to make sure that somebody whose gon na be in that environment will settle down . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to make sure the others are safely on shore , ’ he shouted above the rising roar of the storm . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , ’ said the executive , ‘ if things keep going on the way they are , I 'll be there some day catching for that guy and I want to make sure I know his curves . ’ |
| 17 | The third item , says check , check B S T , that 's just an order for a particular customer that I put through yesterday , and I want to make sure it 's going to happen today . |
| 18 | Erm , and I want to make sure that you 've got , those four people have all done something different from here . |
| 19 | ‘ I stopped to make sure . |
| 20 | Then , after I 'd made sure that I 'd left no telltale traces , I was off . |
| 21 | So in an attempt to upgrade the tournament and I suspect to make sure that the host nation of the top division is bound to be involved in that division , the number of teams in each division has been increased from sic to eight . |
| 22 | Shortly after his arrival , I telephoned to make sure he had settled in and all was well : ‘ How are you , Blair ? ’ was as far as I got . |
| 23 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 24 | I like to make sure the customers are happy . ’ |
| 25 | I says I want to listen to it , you know , I said I 've heard it with C D going through it with about four sets of speakers , but I want to listen to it through eight sets of speakers with cassette , a cassette that I like to make sure , to my type , he says I guarantee you now you will like it , he says you will like he says , he says we do a ten day er return thing , he says you buy something , he says you bring it back within ten days undamaged we 'll give you money back if you do n't like the quality of the sound , for whatever reason we 'll give you your money back . |
| 26 | I turned without stopping and crawled back to the deep end , looking back as I breathed to make sure she was following . |
| 27 | If anybody hears of any neighbourhood watch group meetings , I think make sure Paul knows about it so he can attend where possible |
| 28 | As a result of that , and I think to make sure this is something we would have to ask the advisory committee but I would read it that that includes mutual recognition of eldership . |
| 29 | I had to make sure there would be no … hardship . ’ |
| 30 | As a result , when I did Friends or War I had to make sure there was a distance between them , because they are about completely different subjects . |