Example sentences of "and make [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , but erm , but Chairman , er , I do n't think I should come up and make myself clear , some local papers were not represented there . |
| 2 | She would fall and make him drag her the rest of the way first . |
| 3 | We would tread very carefully but we have done this sort of thing before and we would try and make him realise just what he 's doing to himself . ’ |
| 4 | If she did n't try and make him behave , no one else would . |
| 5 | Oh dear , he thought , she 's going to cry and make me look a bastard in front of all the doctors and nurses . |
| 6 | They always do that , the saucy wenches , they like to tease and make me beg for them to come back . |
| 7 | You want to scream out and make them stop it , and you want to cringe up your body and hide it somewhere , and there 's nowhere to hide , and the shells keep screaming down and blowing everything up all around you . |
| 8 | ‘ I shall go and make them cook me some breakfast . ’ |
| 9 | So I 'm in there — making them run — that 's what you 're trying to do and make them feel small . |
| 10 | See if you can try and make them feel better — you 'll soon forget about your own problems . |
| 11 | ‘ What are you going to do instead ? ’ asks Phil , chewing up little pieces of graph paper into sodden balls , and flicking them at the laboratory ceiling with a slide-rule to try and make them stick . |
| 12 | Did you try and stop them , did you try and make them see reason ? |
| 13 | I did use more at first when I was buying grams , say a year ago , when I was doin' that , but , say this last year I was trying to pace meself out 'cos I knew that I 'd run outa money eventually , so I had to try and make it last … . |
| 14 | Well , perhaps I wo n't light the fire until half past eleven or something to try and make it go that bit further . |
| 15 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 16 | So Malcolm went down Club Row market and bought us a cat and the most ridiculously horrible food — tins of sardines and those disgusting tinned plum tomatoes they used to try and make you eat at school . |
| 17 | Well there are one or two other things we can do to try and make you feel better er even if the , the hands are n't the principle cause er I think we 'll see what happens , work your chest out of the way first though . |
| 18 | That was why I kept pushing you and provoking you — to try and make you spit it out . |
| 19 | Well i that was to sort of try and make you focus on the gifts of the Holy Spirit that we 're going to receive , that we receive through or that you have strengthened through Confirmation , rather than receiving because they 're already there . |