Example sentences of "could make [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She loved her father because he could make everyone laugh . |
| 2 | No one could make him stay at school . |
| 3 | And once he was on stage , no one could make him do what he did not want to do . |
| 4 | could make him go wo n't it ? |
| 5 | I longed to prove you were unfaithful to him so I could make him throw you over — I felt like a monster with every ungenerous thought that flickered through my mind . |
| 6 | Nothing I said could make him change his mind . |
| 7 | ‘ But I love you , ’ he said , and even today the memory could make him wince with remembered pain and passion . |
| 8 | " Yet if I could make him notice me perhaps he might consider my suitability as a wife . |
| 9 | He also had unusually heavy , drooping eyelids which could make him look comic or sinister , benevolent or supercilious . |
| 10 | She smiled up at him , wishing she could will the tension out of his body , wishing she could make him relax that guard . |
| 11 | I am the little boy to the left of the picture of his class half hidden by the boy next to me how funny to think of Walter being an author as he was always in trouble at school and none of the teachers could make him learn does n't it make you think . |
| 12 | Could make him cry for mercy . |
| 13 | She could make him doubt most things about himself , but not the accuracy of his ears . |
| 14 | You 're stronger than I am , and I know you could make me do … ’ she lowered her lashes in embarrassment ‘ … things … that I do n't want to do . |
| 15 | ‘ Michael could make me laugh very easily , ’ said Cossins . |
| 16 | Your charms could make me forget the world . |
| 17 | Perhaps I was showing too many teeth which could make me appear roguish and untrustworthy . |
| 18 | I was a little afraid , but this was something really important ; nobody could make me get married after I had discovered something as strange as this . |
| 19 | My brother could make me cry just by lifting me on to a five-foot-high garden trellis and leaving me there , so I was hardly a miniature Chris Bonnington . |
| 20 | By gum , he could make them go ! |
| 21 | We have locked them away , in the vain hope that by doing so we could make them disappear . |
| 22 | At a stroke she could make them vanish , but she 'd still see them . |
| 23 | An hour on the workbench could make them play quite reasonably , but do n't imagine you 're getting anything like a real Rickenbacker for a bargain price ; they 've got the looks , but that 's about all . |
| 24 | You could make them see it so clearly if only you 'd try . ’ |
| 25 | Their exposure to the property market is unusually large ; a sharp fall in Japanese property values , long predicted but yet to happen , could make them wobble . |
| 26 | Probably she had some old typing paper of Walter 's still around in the attic , so she could make them look convincing . |
| 27 | It was all very pleasant , and Cassie began to remember what she had all but forgotten : Just what good company Ben was , and how much he could make her laugh . |
| 28 | Christina hoped it would n't be too long before she could make her escape . |
| 29 | He half expected ocean , the white towers of Moon Beach , but there was only land , land that looked infinite , land without end , and he stood still and stared , as if by staring he could make something happen , the first drop of rain already drying on his shoulder . |
| 30 | My brother tt he er had a bicycle and then he joined up , er we did have a hectic time , he could make anything go . |