Example sentences of "it [modal v] make [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He put his other arm round her waist and she thought wildly that it could make its own way there by now . |
2 | Secondly , the Bank gave notice that it would make its own forecasts of daily flows in the market so as to be ready to provide assistance but that when the need arose the houses would have to offer bills for sale to the Bank at prices of their own choosing . |
3 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
4 | When , and how it will make its relational database technology compliant with OMG specifications , has not even been discussed , the firm says . |
5 | Their reaction to the recession is worth considering as the Government is engaged in thrashing out how it will make its own ends meet . |
6 | Michael Hanley , his solicitor , said : ‘ He will be isolated , with no other Kurds to talk to , and I fear it will make his mental state even worse . |
7 | If he becomes nervous about eating , it will make his physical difficulties worse . |
8 | It will make our future association all the more interesting and rewarding . ’ |
9 | I think it will make our international clientele feel at home . |