Example sentences of "[not/n't] make it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Chinese think it is worth going to all the trouble and expense of shipping this equipment 12,000 miles around the world , how is it that British industry can not make it pay ? ’ |
| 2 | My colleagues and I do not believe that the British people will be fooled a second time — one can take a horse to water but one can not make it drink . |
| 3 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 4 | Thinking that something will happen does not make it happen . |
| 5 | Tends to think ‘ I did not make it happen ’ . |
| 6 | Of course sometimes when it does n't work that depresses me because it 's not because it does n't work , it 's because of the constraints of the system that you can not make it work . |
| 7 | His plan to escape was so long in the making and the lesson for us must lie in the reason why , when the time came , he could not make it work . |
| 8 | But he was that stiff-necked the old Baron , and Mr Louis , the present Baron , he 's the same , they could n't make it pay even when times got better . |
| 9 | Some women ca n't make it last the week so theirs is kept in the office . |
| 10 | ( At this point , Steve Lamacq enters and threatens physical violence if Soho do n't make it SOTW . ) |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't make it talk , ’ Fred said . |
| 12 | If there is one overriding golden rule with feeding any plant , but especially with roses , it is the meaning of the old saying ‘ you can lead a horse to water , but you ca n't make it drink ’ . |
| 13 | You ca n't just leave it up to the police , or to someone else — and ignoring it wo n't make it go away . |
| 14 | Not talking about it does n't make it go away . ’ |
| 15 | And getting in a tiss and shouting wo n't make it go away . |
| 16 | You sit in a rocking chair but ca n't make it go . |
| 17 | My mate weighed it too and he could n't make it grow either . |
| 18 | In theory , you should be able to stick the chart into a document , while maintaining links to the original spreadsheet , but I could n't make it work . |
| 19 | I was very confused because I could n't make it work , but not could I break it . |
| 20 | It 's very frustrating to fit a new drive , only to find you ca n't make it work because the cable wo n't reach . |
| 21 | For no apparent reason it was hanging on my head like lank seaweed ; I could n't make it puff out in a way that hid my ears properly . |
| 22 | I only wish the box 's artwork did n't make it seem like such a hoot . |
| 23 | I think , possibly people who do n't make it have become a little starstruck . |
| 24 | I find that other kind of sound very forgiving ; I can get through it technically , but I ca n't make it come alive the way somebody else could . ’ |
| 25 | It did n't make it heal just good stuff |
| 26 | ‘ It would n't make it taste better if I owned it . ’ |
| 27 | But it 's something that 's happened and you ca n't make it unhappen . |