Example sentences of "could [adv] make [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could only make him as comfortable as possible under the conditions , and we still had to bomb Berlin ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It could only make it more painful . |
| 4 | I could not make her understand it was herself , and I began to be afraid that her illness was real . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( 155 ) … and even the Soviet morticians could not make him look presentable . |
| 7 | ‘ The only one who could not make it was a nuclear physicist ! ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He could not make it out , nor could he trust his own memory . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Larry Cummins unfortunately , could not make it to England for the reunion . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She could just make him out as he rolled over to face her . |
| 16 | If you shaded your eyes you could just make it out : a gleaming band of silver right across the horizon . |
| 17 | Quickly an apartment block rose six storeys high around it , almost removing it from sight : passers-by could just make it out looking through the unglazed windows of the unfinished ground-floor flats . |
| 18 | He needs it because I suspect he 's hooked on the secrecy and excitement that could easily make him run off again . ’ |
| 19 | A deadly charm that could humiliate her because it could easily make her melt and beg and forget a lifetime of rigid adherence to propriety . |
| 20 | ‘ You are the only one who could possibly make me happy . ’ |
| 21 | That could still make him feel good . |
| 22 | Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right . |
| 23 | Their manager , Graham Turner , had said before the game that Wolves could still make it into the play-offs , but this result has put paid to those hopes . |
| 24 | And he could still make it in 1992 . |
| 25 | And with tons of topsoil , they could still make it a goodish course . |
| 26 | ‘ He could always make you tingle , just being near him , ’ wrote one old woman who had worked with him in Bury as a girl in 1929 . |
| 27 | Now these words are as clear and unequivocal as any draftsman could reasonably make them and they can not , as a matter of ordinary English , relate to the intention of anyone other than the holder . |
| 28 | The Iranians , of course , had little interest in vacations , but North could also make them wonderful offers in the currency they understood , TOWs : ‘ If you get the hostages out , we 'll send you a million of them . ’ |
| 29 | Yes , we could probably make them , but they would be rather difficult . |
| 30 | She wished they could both make it up and release her from this terrible trap . |