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Example sentences of "[modal v] make it [vb infin] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	A drug may make an animal less hungry , less mobile , less sensitive to the pain of an electric shock , just as much as it may make it forget .
2	That may make it seem as if we thought each had specific dates and a definite content .
3	It was right that she should make it suffer for what it had done .
4	This should make it look like a cat about to fight , but strangely it does not .
5	And we must make it pay as much as we can .
6	I must make it happen to myself !
7	In the end , however attractive the idea of glasnost , it is only as good as the people who must make it work .
8	Who and how many people we imprison , for how long and in what conditions are questions that politicians and sentencers must answer ; those in the prisons must make it work as well as they can .
9	‘ I 'll work so hard , I 'll make it succeed !
10	Er , yeah , I 'll make it make it now .
11	I 've mowed the lawn , that 'll make it grow !
12	Then we 'll make it come down now this side .
13	So what we 'll do , say in a foursome scenario , is we 'll make it look like they 're switching partners , when really they 're not . ’
14	It 'll make it look shinier , too .
15	I can draw some sides just like I can put I could make a just draw neatly in the teams bi on a big piece of paper that 'll make it look really good , .
16	And it 'll save that corner , it 'll make it look nice .
17	mm er yeah they should be done by Friday I should think cos if all they 're doing is putting a coping edge on it 'll make it look nicer at the back .
18	‘ I 'll make it work .
19	‘ And we 'll make it happen yet , my man .
20	‘ We 'll make it happen . ’
21	( Do n't worry that visualising the scene might make it materialise .
22	he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins .
23	‘ Simon reckoned he 'd adored you for years and that he intended to be that boyfriend , and he 'd make it happen by ensuring the two of you were together as much as possible .
24	I 'd make it work . ’
25	Oh , I should n't have phoned you ; I might have known you 'd make it seem as if I 'm moaning .
26	Out of the gentlemen who came into farming at that time [ before mechanization ] only about one in twenty could make it go : the others had to have a skilled man to manage the farm for 'em .
27	‘ Well , I could make it werf yer while , ’ she said fluttering her eyelashes at him .
28	‘ I started training modest horses and in those days you could make it pay by running them in selling races . ’
29	And if you got four together you may be two down or three down and one back , you could make it pay , and share the cost out between everyone .
30	Although on occasion he functioned as leader of the Congress movement , the ascendancy he achieved over it was purely personal , and he could make it seem as though he played with it at will .