Example sentences of "make [pron] any " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ They do n't make them any more , but it 's a great thing . |
2 | He said , ‘ Getting used to things does n't make them any better , does it ? |
3 | Masculine like they do n't make them any more , do n't give a fuck about Dante , do n't touch alcohol , find it cold here after their own country and are more interested in praying and politics than getting laid . |
4 | Does it make them any weaker because they 've been adopted by young women who dislike the feminist label or by the ‘ I 'm not a feminist but ’ brigade ? |
5 | They do n't make them any more do they ? |
6 | seeing him , of course , did n't make me any better . |
7 | ‘ Lady Lavinia , I beg of you , do n't make me any gifts ! |
8 | We ca n't make ourselves any different . |
9 | Dolly had stirred up a hornets ' nest when she pinched the wallet , and he had n't made it any better by steaming the letter open . |
10 | She had never been a Bonapartist , yet that distaste had not made it any easier for her to leave France and follow an army that must fight against her countrymen . |
11 | But I was in a foul temper , and Rebecca had n't made it any easier by going on about missing papers , and how urgent it was that we had them back . ’ |
12 | Their popularity , however , has not made it any easier to reconcile conservation and development . |
13 | I 'm not sure you 've made it any clearer than it was before but erm |
14 | They are nice for the day , but they do n't mean anything , they do n't make you any better . |
15 | Why should it make you any happier ? |
16 | The caffeine gives her numbed brain cells a temporary boost but nothing can increase the speed with which the body disposes of alcohol , and the coffee does n't make her any more sober . |
17 | Diane told herself that this was just a kind of paranoia on her part , an over-apprehension that came from reading too many doctor articles in women 's magazines , but it did n't make her any less uneasy . |
18 | But the thought did n't make her any happier . |
19 | Getting Nails into the team did not make him any nicer . |
20 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
21 | I was told I would lose , but it does n't make it any easier . ’ |
22 | To know that a particular animal dance , or brightly coloured display , operates as a territorial device or as a sexual arousal mechanism does not make it any less beautiful . |
23 | To understand the function of bird-song does not make it any less enchanting . |
24 | The fact that I appeared to be driving the only topless car on the east coast did n't make it any easier . |
25 | Anticipating the problem does not make it any less likely to occur , but planning and preparing for it helps one to cope with it , and will emphasize that professional and consistent judgment has been exercised . |
26 | But that did not make it any easier to break the news . |
27 | The news of the morning broadcast had brought them all to this place , anticipating something like what they were now hearing , which did not make it any better . |
28 | ‘ That does n't make it any better . ’ |
29 | That does n't make it any better . |
30 | But this does not make it any less true . |