Example sentences of "[modal v] make [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 'll make me do my whole second year again , ’ said Tom . |
| 2 | The beast by candle-light ; the trip to bed where all the things you would n't do , have n't done , are things he 'll make you do , and things you 'll want ; and then the beast 's departure , out on his own , still smelling your smell but looking for fresh tracks . |
| 3 | Get the bomb squad out any way , but erm , the British army has got a lot of important that 's they way we would fight the Russians , take over a small hamlet , mortify it and that 's how the only way we would ever up the Russian 's grass nest , they take it very seriously , so what they did if they tell us how to do it , walks us through , show us what to do , let us do it and then they 'd make us do it again , but without any mistakes and that , it was really good and they showed us how to er mortify up a house , go , going through all the sewers and stuff is quite fun |
| 4 | And once he was on stage , no one could make him do what he did not want to do . |
| 5 | You 're stronger than I am , and I know you could make me do … ’ she lowered her lashes in embarrassment ‘ … things … that I do n't want to do . |
| 6 | Opening Poole 's letter on a visit to Bristol City Library , he began at once to write the first of two wildly intemperate replies : the country round Iron Acton was ‘ intolerably flat ’ ; Bristol contained no friends of his beyond Cottle and Estlin ( Wade was going away ) ; and as for the cottage , he would make it do . |
| 7 | And what the soldier wants will enormously affect what this belief of his will make him do . |
| 8 | Voicetype will make it do something |
| 9 | ‘ Anyhow , ’ Sendei continued , ‘ while we 've got this we can make him do pretty much what we want . ’ |
| 10 | No one can make him do anything he does n't want . |
| 11 | And er If you get a small little chickens you can make them do two days |
| 12 | Indeed , a major theme which is influencing the use and impact of computers in all kinds of applications is the increasingly simple way in which users can make them do complex and powerful things . |
| 13 | The truth is , of course , that no hypnotherapist can make you do anything . |
| 14 | He can make us do anything he wants . |