Example sentences of "would make [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I have any additional qualities which would make me suitable ? |
| 2 | But if I had one drink of any description that 's the one thing that would make me nervous because I 'd be afraid that I 'd forget this or forget the other , so we just do n't have them at all you know . |
| 3 | The experience I would hope to gain in an Earthwatch project would make me competent enough to join hands with the necessary authorities in improving the condition of these game reserves . |
| 4 | Because I thought he could use me in his own way , and that would make me happy . |
| 5 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 6 | Most of the women he goes off with when we have a bad row are certainly not the type which would make me jealous — which , of course , is the main purpose of the exercise ! |
| 7 | I knew that his clothes , his manners and uneducated way of speaking would make me ashamed of him . |
| 8 | Mr Sewell said : ‘ It would make me seasick before we left port . ’ |
| 9 | That would make me some kind of accessory after the fact , would n't it ? ’ |
| 10 | My sister ate , but I refused , not out of sacrifice nor because I was resisting temptation ( I firmly believed that meat would make me ill , as my mother said ) , but because I knew — though this formulation is the adult 's rather than the ten-year old 's — that the price of the meal was condemnation of my mother 's oddness , and I was n't having that . |
| 11 | And although he signed a lucrative four-year contract with Wednesday last season , he would be aware that a move to United now would make him one of the game 's highest earners . |
| 12 | That would make him 75 — though he claims to be ‘ only ’ 72 , saying he lied about his age years ago so he could join the army . |
| 13 | STUDENT John McCoy went for a spin in his car hoping it would make him tired — and plummeted 30ft down a cliff . |
| 14 | Of course , she might have another twenty years , which would make him seventy-four and what would there be left to speak of then ? |
| 15 | I mean , what would make him vulnerable ? |
| 16 | Tom Watson from the US was bidding for the joint record-sixth British Open victory that would make him immortal alongside Harry Vardon . |
| 17 | Ignorance , combined with confidence that the popular support that he enjoyed inside France would make him indispensable to the Allies , may well explain his initially calm response to news of the invasion on 8 November . |
| 18 | Section 2(5) of the 1959 Act reads : " A person shall not be convicted of an offence against this section ( ie the offence of publishing obscene material ) if he proves that he had not examined the article in respect of which he is charged and had no reasonable cause to suspect that it was such that his publication of it would make him liable to be convicted of an offence against this section . " |
| 19 | Her proposition had been simple and direct — if he were to work for her , she would make him wealthy and ensure him a place in society . |
| 20 | He had thought that living in Normandy would make him ambivalent towards his old enemy , but he had spent too many years fighting the Crapauds suddenly to relinquish the need to see them beaten . |
| 21 | A win for Kevin in his Skoda at Swansea tomorrow would make him favourite to become National Champion . |
| 22 | Alice 's voice held genuine regret , for although she had never thought Madeleine the right girl for Harry , she would have done anything possible to forward a marriage between them if she truly believed it would make him happy . |
| 23 | This is the pencil that his kindergarten teacher possessed ; the pencil that made the blue ticks and the red crosses in the register ; the pencil that he wept for , that his mother went all over town to find , and failed to find , because they were all gone , or not made any more , or kept for teachers , or only imagined ; the pencil which he knew would make him happy , if only he possessed it , for evermore . |
| 24 | They know that to flaunt Socialism would make them unelectable . |
| 25 | But that would make them vulnerable to a surprise attack . |
| 26 | These major disasters are compounded by the fact that those people believed that the NHS would make them better . |
| 27 | The great danger of the proposals , I said , was not that they would fail to improve our schools , but that they would make them worse . |
| 28 | But reformers said jailing kids would make them worse . |
| 29 | In the first instance , there is nothing in the ideological and intellectual upbringing of the Soviet leaders which would make them partial to markets . |
| 30 | The concept of ‘ manliness , of course was derived from public-school culture , which also inspired Smith to bind ‘ the boys together and create an esprit de corps that would make them proud of their company , jealous of its honour , ashamed to do anything to disgrace it , and prepared to make any sacrifice rather than be dismissed from it ’ . |