Example sentences of "do make [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Has all the tedious public work you have done made you any the better ?
2 And then her poor face melted like a candle into nothing and how I cried at what I had done to make her lose all her features . ’
3 What have I done to make her so chilly ?
4 ‘ What had I done to make her so cross ? ’
5 What can be done to make them more successful ?
6 Wilson , now also designated as general secretary , was instructed to take premises in Prospect Row , Sunderland , for a reading room , smoke room and office and have the necessary work done to make them usable for these purposes .
7 He 'd been glaring and smashing down glasses on the table and muttering under his breath and I wondered what on earth I 'd done to make him so disturbed , and then I realised I had n't done anything .
8 What had Lavinia , Lady Merchiston done to make him speak so ?
9 With Windows NT still a gleam in Bill Gates ' eye , OS/2 2.0 can lay claim to the goodness high ground , and it is difficult to see what more IBM could have done to make it electable — its erstwhile friends would say that it has cynically ditched all its principles — of closed systems , tight central control , the whole ‘ nanny knows best and you 'd better believe it ’ ethos that served the company so well for so long , and led to a string of successes at the ballot box in the 1960s and 1970s .
10 What have I done to make you feel like this ?
11 ‘ What have I done to make you despise me so much ? ’
12 Was there something he could do to make her stay more comfortable ?
13 ‘ If the elusive Mr Cupplewaite 's solicitors wo n't play ball , there 's nothing we can do to make them . ’
14 And there 's nothing we can do to make them .
15 Well there 's plenty of things you can do to make them drop back .
16 And there 's nothing I can do to make him say otherwise . ’
17 She knew there was nothing she could do to make him go away ; and she smelt him , and the acrid want in him .
18 There seemed nothing she could do to make it less so .
19 The presentational aspect involves all kinds of different considerations which I shall come to presently , but what they boil down to is this : what can you do to make it easier for the communicator to communicate and the audience to receive the required message — with minimum distraction ?
20 discuss risk-taking with your teenager — try to agree what she can do to make the experimenting relatively safe , think about what you both can do to make it so ;
21 When we find this extremely difficult , there are a few things we can do to make it easier .
22 What can we do to make it easier for the potential visitor ?
23 But there is nothing you can do to make it grow longer than it is programmed to do by your body chemistry .
24 So what can we all do to make it easier for our disabled friends to enjoy the countryside ?
25 What could you do to make it so there was less dirt in your bucket ? ’ , children were nearly always correct .
26 Over to this side now , erm , give me three things that you can do to make it easy t for the eye to see what er , particular number is refer w which rows is referring answer to ?
27 And apart from the garden that you said that you made it lovely while you were there , what other things did you do to make it look like a home ?
28 What can we do to make it look like we care about the unemployed ?
29 What can we do to make it look like we actually care about training ?
30 What can we do to make it look like we care about the unemployed ?
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