Example sentences of "could [adv] make [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prolonged contact with Rune could only make her parting from him more painful , the recovery period afterwards more protracted , the absolute cure less certain . |
| 2 | We could only make him as comfortable as possible under the conditions , and we still had to bomb Berlin ’ . |
| 3 | I had only known , positively though without details , that there was no help and no comfort forthcoming from the source , and that being so I shied away from any mental flashbacks which could only make me more unhappy and ashamed . |
| 4 | It could only make it more painful . |
| 5 | I could only make my exit . |
| 6 | He wondered sadly aloud to Anna whether experience could finally make one more robust . |
| 7 | In the distant past , when the genetic material was being accumulated that makes mankind what it is , nobody but a warlord lived in a dwelling he could not make himself . |
| 8 | He could not make himself bankrupt . |
| 9 | Thinking that the police were arresting the wrong man , he attempted to attract the arresting policeman 's attention , and seized his arm for this purpose , since he could not make himself heard over the hubbub . |
| 10 | He could not make himself think clearly . |
| 11 | But he was n't very good , and even to please her ( which was his only motive for practising ) he could not make himself into a musician . |
| 12 | Julia said drily that she thought that free Capitalism with an adequate system of social welfare for all those who could not make their own success in it was probably the fairest workable system , and then laughed as she saw David 's expression . |
| 13 | I could not make her understand it was herself , and I began to be afraid that her illness was real . |
| 14 | There was a box of matches in his top pocket , but when he got them out his hands were so wet that he could not make them strike . |
| 15 | It would not challenge capitalism , so it tried to support it ; but it could not make its policy acceptable to the trade unions on whom it depended . |
| 16 | ( 155 ) … and even the Soviet morticians could not make him look presentable . |
| 17 | I was desperate enough to consider rushing round the table pretending to be Pumblechook 's carriage , but I could not make myself do it , and just stood there helplessly . |
| 18 | But she could not make herself care . |
| 19 | But she could not make herself give up . |
| 20 | But it had progressed to the stage where she could not make herself walk past a pigeon on the ground , but would cross the road in order to avoid it . |
| 21 | The lift of autumn in the air went contrary to the trouble she could not make herself consider . |
| 22 | Portuguese , although appearing to be similar to Spanish on paper , is pronounced completely differently , and so despite the fact that we could communicate in French and Spanish , we could not make ourselves understood in Portuguese other than to ask , ‘ Fala ingles ? — do you speak English ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The only one who could not make it was a nuclear physicist ! ’ |
| 24 | However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point . |
| 25 | He could not make it out , nor could he trust his own memory . |
| 26 | They were now nearer to 550 miles from Malta than the 450 intended , and the Fulmar crew announced over the radio that they could not make it , breaking away to land on the carrier again . |
| 27 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |
| 28 | Larry Cummins unfortunately , could not make it to England for the reunion . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Sorloth could not make it because he played for his Turkish club at Sunday and he had to be in Poland at 11AM this monday ; and that was not possible . |