Example sentences of "[modal v] make they [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's make them work . |
| 2 | Let's make them work . ’ |
| 3 | If your organization is slap-happy it will unnerve candidates and may make them think twice before accepting a job with you . |
| 4 | Sometimes changing to a normal lifestyle may make them feel guilty . |
| 5 | You 've got to make them feel that you 're not expecting too much of them , or you may make them freeze . |
| 6 | In such circumstances their use of slang and informal language may make them seem rather stupid in the eyes of others . |
| 7 | We are now being told by this arrogant and incompetent lot that having given us record unemployment , bankruptcies , house repossession , liquidations , factory closures etc , that they are the only ones fit to govern when surely that record should make them hang their heads in shame . |
| 8 | erm I mean it really must make them feel like the world 's gone haywire . |
| 9 | when the old boy comes round and see what you 've done with the old horse manure , spread some of that around and that 'll make them grow as well |
| 10 | Well that 'll make them sit up and think that 's for sure |
| 11 | cos it 'll make them think about their language wo n't they ? |
| 12 | We 'll make them spin three pounds instead of two |
| 13 | Then next for the Spinner we shall ensue , We 'll make them spin three pound instead of two ; When they bring home their work unto us , they complain , And say that their wages will not them maintain ; But if that an ounce of weight they do lack , Then for to bate threepence we will not be slack . |
| 14 | No , if they 're not working , we 'll make them work . ’ |
| 15 | And first for the Combers , we will bring them down From eight groats a score unto half a crown , If at all they murmur , and say t is too small , We bid them choose whether they will work at all ; We 'll make them believe that trading is bad ; We care not a pin , though they are ne'er so sad . |
| 16 | That it might make them think other than we wish them to think ? |
| 17 | The curia was worried by talk of modernization — especially perhaps by the thought that 2,500 bishops in Rome might make them change their procedures in unwelcome ways . |
| 18 | ‘ The only thing that might make them move after three years here is Italy . |
| 19 | She must never ever do anything that might make them fight . |
| 20 | That 'd make them sit up and realise they ca n't get away with desecrating any bit of wild country they can get their hands on … ‘ |
| 21 | Jesus , he 'd make them pay . |
| 22 | She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’ |
| 23 | During that time I had them out three times because I thought I 'd make them see . |
| 24 | By gum , he could make them go ! |
| 25 | We have locked them away , in the vain hope that by doing so we could make them disappear . |
| 26 | At a stroke she could make them vanish , but she 'd still see them . |
| 27 | An hour on the workbench could make them play quite reasonably , but do n't imagine you 're getting anything like a real Rickenbacker for a bargain price ; they 've got the looks , but that 's about all . |
| 28 | You could make them see it so clearly if only you 'd try . ’ |
| 29 | Their exposure to the property market is unusually large ; a sharp fall in Japanese property values , long predicted but yet to happen , could make them wobble . |
| 30 | Probably she had some old typing paper of Walter 's still around in the attic , so she could make them look convincing . |