Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [verb] [n mass] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think that the question of making people do things , that 's something in all societies which does n't change too much . |
| 2 | We are all in the business of making people laugh — and in Carry On films there is only one way to do that — good old slapstick humour . ’ |
| 3 | Michael had the gift of making people want to please him , as if by giving him pleasure they were somehow indebted to him . |
| 4 | Implicit in the use of the problem-solving approach described above is the aim of helping people acquire coping skills which can be used not just to solve the current problems but also to deal with some of those that may occur subsequently . |
| 5 | Hospitality is the art of making people feel at home when you wish they were at home |
| 6 | Little more than twenty-four hours later , he was in hospital for an operation on damaged arteries in his legs , the price of making people laugh . |
| 7 | An outstanding American teacher of music speaks from her own experience of young children ( Upitis 1990 : 2 ) : " We have one strong factor in our favor in taking on the task of helping people become musicians , and that is , in some form all of us are already musicians . " |