Example sentences of "make [pron] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunday nights have always been a problem for the serious cinemagoer , since this is the night that brings out the lads whose parents do n't make them go to bed early before a fresh week at school begins . |
| 2 | Those which have are reaping impressive rewards simply by identifying precisely the services or products customers want ; looking at their most lucrative areas ; finding out what clients really value ; and establishing what would make them move to a competing hotel . |
| 3 | ‘ The only thing that might make them move after three years here is Italy . |
| 4 | She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’ |
| 5 | cos it 'll make them think about their language wo n't they ? |
| 6 | Mais je me dis , des enfants c'est des enfants , on peut pas les faire penser comme des adultes , on peut pas — ‘ I tell myself , children are children ; one ca n't make them think like adults — one just ca n't ’ |
| 7 | I would make them pay for what they 've done . |
| 8 | The child who has been moving boats and other objects that float on the surface of the water , suddenly discovers that he can make them sink by holding them down or pouring water on top of them . |
| 9 | If Gina was pleasant to him she could share ; if not , he would make them last for two meals . |
| 10 | Now do welcome them , do make them feel at home , especially those of you who are new to the place you will know and remember what it 's like when you first come into a strange building that feels like home . |
| 11 | The return of Latin would make them feel as if they were experiencing something mysterious and exalted , something greater than themselves . |
| 12 | ‘ Surely they ca n't make them fly through that , can they ? ’ |
| 13 | It took the London store magnate Gordon Selfridge , who included them in his own advertising copy in the evening papers , to show that publishing them would increase the value of the paper to its readers , rather than make them desert to a rival medium . |
| 14 | You may think you have problems now , but Vittorio can make them seem like fond memories . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I think if I did that would make them look at me in a completely different way . ’ |
| 16 | Furthermore , these Creole features of grammar do not appear to carry any particular symbolic value either ( see the quote from Hewitt above ) and the contexts in which they occur do not make them look like code switches . |
| 17 | A to help men get sexually aroused , B to make them make them look like women 's legs , C to prevent men getting sexy aroused ? |
| 18 | He has warned me he 'll make me suffer for it . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't make me suffer like this ! ’ |
| 20 | Nothing and I do mean nothing is gon na make me move from here until you agree to dump the munchkin . ’ |
| 21 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 22 | But no one can make me talk to you . |
| 23 | Why make me pay for what Eddie did ? ’ |
| 24 | He can make me depend on him . |
| 25 | He 'd make me sleep with the kids , then he 'd make me come back to bed with him , in and out all night . |
| 26 | Get out of the way and pushes me do n't make me start with you Jo , all this stuff . |
| 27 | But let me do it in my own time , and do n't make me feel like a brood mare . |
| 28 | It can make me feel like doubting , it can bring me to the place where I question it , but it does n't alter the fact we can be totally sured , totally certain of our salvation , because God has said it . |
| 29 | ‘ Nothing would make me go in there , ’ she said , scrambling down the steps . |
| 30 | ‘ It 'll make me want to be a Brownie even more ! ’ |