Example sentences of "that makes [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The item that makes everyone tick at PE also lies within the former gunnery hall , but it has been receiving attention since its arrival — within the hold of a Safair L–100 Hercules . |
| 2 | It 's the promise of guns that makes them co-operate with Midwinter . |
| 3 | He 's proud that Romeo & Juliet introduced children to both Shakespeare and Prokofiev ‘ in a way that makes them think it 's not culture and a bit boring and I wish I could go and watch Neighbours . ’ |
| 4 | This feeling is only likely to be reinforced by the realisation that the underlying technology used by most players — the set of chips that makes them tick — comes from a very limited number of sources . |
| 5 | ‘ As for McClair … he 's a players ’ player , the one that makes them tick . ’ |
| 6 | It is precisely the same quality that makes them resist brutality in prisons but we do not applaud that . |
| 7 | They are rendered with a reduced palette and a monumentality that makes them seem emblematic , but of what ? |
| 8 | The promotion has led to some shops selling out of £120 vacuum cleaners , and the Cambuslang , Strathclyde , factory that makes them has defied the recession by switching to seven-day working . |
| 9 | It is caused by a loss of calcium in the bones that makes them become softer , porous and weaker . |
| 10 | Just remember that the invisible spiritual force that makes them work is evil and harmful , so leave them all well alone . |
| 11 | At least in the post-Gazza era in which we now find ourselves , several soldiers have admitted to a level of fear that makes them cry their eyes out . |
| 12 | I do n't want to ‘ politicize ’ the homeless in a way that makes them look like the front-line infantry fighting a barbaric government , which is a line some people have taken , simply because when you 're out there , it just is n't like that . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't suppose anybody does , at first , unless the painting is an airbrushed portrait that makes them look perfect . |
| 14 | What is it about the British that makes them confuse service with servility |
| 15 | This provokes awareness of and gives practice in those features of language which provide links within sentences or across sentence boundaries : the glue that makes them stick together . |
| 16 | Well there must be another force that makes them see them things must n't there ? |
| 17 | I may have the idea that makes me start putting the brush strokes down , but at some point the canvas will take on a life of its own and lead me off in a direction I never expected to go . |
| 18 | You know what Richard thinks about Suez , but he does n't really listen to me — how do you think that makes me feel ? ’ |
| 19 | Emily Dickenson defined writing that works as ‘ something that makes me feel as though the top of my head is coming off ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not sure how secure that makes me feel , ’ Culley said . |
| 21 | But he 's made me believe them ; it 's the thought of him that makes me feel guilty when I break the rules . |
| 22 | Well that makes me feel a , a lot better . |
| 23 | All the time you ought to be asking yourself : " why should anyone believe what I am writing ? " and " what have I noticed in the text or in background , contextual materials that makes me think this ? " |
| 24 | or intent that makes me pause , turn back ; |
| 25 | ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later . |
| 29 | Ian is OK — friendly and cheerful — but there 's something about Robert that makes me want to fight him all the time . ’ |
| 30 | The thing that makes me believe in God is that there 's a special kind of weather on Sundays . |