Example sentences of "not [v-ing] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | But again I held myself warily at a certain distance , not daring to make contact with him for fear of falling into the kind of trap Dana had prepared for me . |
| 2 | ‘ Am I on next ? ’ she mouthed silently , not daring to make a sound . |
| 3 | They may be dazed and talk as if delirious , incoherent , stupid , forgetful ; worse ( < ) for mental exertions and is averse to speaking or even having company present ; too tired to communicate and not wanting to make the effort . |
| 4 | He held his breath , not wanting to make the slightest sound that might betray his presence . |
| 5 | And I mean I 'm not wanting to make up any . |
| 6 | I am not seeking to make health care into a business , but I make no apology for seeking to employ business techniques in the health service in order to deliver the central objectives of the health service more effectively than in the past . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope they are not going make my trip across the Atlantic a waste of time , ’ said Maloney . |
| 8 | and it 's , if you have a face pack , it 's not going make you look like Audrey Hepburn anyway . |
| 9 | I can go to all the dinners and banquets on earth , but it 's not going to make any difference to the world . |
| 10 | All out 446 meant that England had a lot of batting to do in the last two days , and when Larkins went at the end of the third day to a ball that he did not see in the shadows , one felt they just were not going to make it . |
| 11 | ‘ I said something like ‘ Jesus , they 're not going to make it . ’ |
| 12 | First of all I 'm not going to make any money out of work like that , and second of all that sort of thing becomes a pigsty . |
| 13 | ‘ The Lord said to me the day before , ‘ You 're not going to make it out of your heat tomorrow ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ The prices we see ahead are not going to make industry competitive ’ , he added . |
| 15 | My knowledge of this period of history is rather hazy so I am not going to make an issue of it either way , for the simple reason which I suspect is shared by many of you , that I do n't care . |
| 16 | When Michael knew he had cancer , he said , ‘ One of three things will happen ; I shall get better , I shall have some remission , or I shall die , and whichever it is , we 're not going to make a tragedy of it . ’ |
| 17 | The big advantage we 've got over bands from the '60s and '70s is we can look back and see the exact point at which they all turned shit — and we 're not going to make the same mistake ! ’ |
| 18 | As he 's said of his ill-fated time at Virgin Records , ‘ I had to keep telling people they 're not going to make me into the next Sting . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not going to make predictions about what could be done , because whether anything can be done depends upon the will of all the heads of government , ’ he said . |
| 20 | She is not going to make the same mistake Jimmy Carter 's First Lady Rosalyn did . |
| 21 | The Judaeo-Christian tradition regards cannibalism as a sin , but other major religions beg to disagree , on the grounds that , if a person is dead already , the consumption of his or her body is not going to make much difference . |
| 22 | ‘ Then Robin shouted ‘ I 'm not going to make it — go and get help ’ . ’ |
| 23 | Product plans from 18 months ago called for first Alaska shipments this quarter , a date HaL is obviously not going to make . |
| 24 | Besides which , Greenberg claims , anything COSE delivers ‘ is not going to make Microsoft less attractive . ’ |
| 25 | Ranasinghe Premadasa , the dead president , appeared to have learnt that indiscriminate killing of Tamils was not going to make the problem go away . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're not going to make it , ’ Estabrook said . |
| 27 | Product plans from 18 months ago called for first Alaska shipments this quarter , a date HaL is obviously not going to make . |
| 28 | Besides which , Greenberg claims , anything COSE delivers ‘ is not going to make Microsoft less attractive . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ There 's a certain point when you can see the inside of the track , you can see the outside of the track and you know you are not going to make the corner , so you give it more throttle . |
| 30 | ‘ I sort of get the impression that these little boats , the sail boats , they 're in trouble , because the wind appears to be blowing away from the harbour , so if they 're trying to get in , they 're not going to make it . ’ |