Example sentences of "would make [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think about buying some fags but the headache 's still there behind my eyes and I have the feeling smoking a cigarette would make me want to throw up . |
| 2 | I would n't go in without any make-up , even a bit of mascara and powder for my blotchy face would make me feel better . |
| 3 | I thought it would make me feel less helpless if I was opposed by something definite . |
| 4 | ‘ My father would make me stand up straight and sing the national anthem four times . |
| 5 | ‘ Nothing would make me go in there , ’ she said , scrambling down the steps . |
| 6 | for its smell , would make me remember , something possible |
| 7 | He would make me look at pictures and then reproduce them with coloured pencils , or else ask me to rotate a figure mentally a certain number of degrees around a given perpendicular before attempting to redraw it . |
| 8 | The murderer knew we would make her talk . |
| 9 | He meant it would make her look older and plainer . |
| 10 | She did n't want false teeth ; they would make her look like an old maid . |
| 11 | Her best coat would perhaps have been better because it would make her look as though she had n't let herself go , but on the other hand her frightful old lumber jacket would have suggested , what was true enough , that she was worried enough not to care . |
| 12 | She knew she was overdressed for the occasion but had n't realised it would make her look both predatory and incom-petently so , since one of the main adult sports at Chris 's school was trying to get that nice Major Maxim remarried . |
| 13 | Being taller would make her look slimmer , although she was quite slender now . |
| 14 | The mild drug in the liquid would help calm him — would make him sleep until the shock of his ordeal had passed . |
| 15 | Fancy her thinking that getting him that lamp would make him feel any different about moving . |
| 16 | At the same time , the worker has at his command tools and machinery that would make him feel enormous strength but he feels impotent because he is involved in only one part of the pattern of mass production ; never experiencing involvement with a total process from the raw material stage through to a finished product . |
| 17 | This applied in particular to the Prior , Father Stephen Bedale , a man of huge stature and extrovert character , and the kind of man who , had he been a layman , might have given the poet a hearty slap on the back in the belief that this would make him feel at home . |
| 18 | Lucy remained silent , knowing this to be a fact , nor was there anything she could say that would make him feel more sympathetic towards her aunt . |
| 19 | ( 150 ) … the teacher probably would make him stand face-to-wall in a corner instead of stay in after school . |
| 20 | However , he can not refuse to dispense a prescription on the grounds that to do so would make him overspend against his budget . |
| 21 | I hoped my vote would make him think again . |
| 22 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 23 | All they had in common , to begin with , was this terrible need : Rich for a mentor who would make him grow , Philip for a pupil who would take on the weight of unspent devotion . |
| 24 | She vowed to herself that tonight , strike or no strike , she would make him forget about Crystal Springs . |
| 25 | He wondered if they had some other sort of beam they could train on him , which would make him forget things , or make his attention wander . |
| 26 | If he could convince her that nothing she could say or do would make him change his mind about Carrie , the way would be open for him to prove to Carrie he had enough love for the two of them . |
| 27 | But she would make him pay for this , she vowed to herself silently , even if she killed herself in the process ! |
| 28 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 29 | When eating , they would make him look as if he were gobbling . |
| 30 | For him to brush it off in such a way — I do n't know what would make him say things like that , he 's the sort of man I just would n't expect to have … |