Example sentences of "to make [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 2 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |
| 3 | Is it ethical for man to interfere with the genetic constitution and physiological functions of living organisms , especially of man and the higher animals , in order to make them perform in a different way ? |
| 4 | The great public buildings were stuccoed with gypsum to make them dazzle in the bright sea-light . |
| 5 | As the name suggests , the tomatoes are dried in the sun to make them dehydrated like a dried fruit . |
| 6 | ‘ I gathered you all wanted to meet me , so it seemed a bit unkind to make you wait until the following morning … ’ |
| 7 | Serafin knows now why Summerchild was so reluctant to let him see this place and so anxious to make him settle for the dingy remoteness of Northumberland Avenue . |
| 8 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 9 | There was no call to make him look like an Anglo-Saxon writing in schoolboy French by altering it to sauce de moutarde . |
| 10 | From any of these positions I would be crazy to make him play with the left knee inflamed the way it is . ’ |
| 11 | Approaches that have tended to over-emphasise the cost aspects of RMI and to make it appear as a finance-driven system tend to alienate the service provider groups and often meet with resistance at clinician level . |
| 12 | Again he tried to make it stand with the thin box as the base and once again it fell over . |
| 13 | Practice implies a world of fact and is concerned with the alteration of ‘ what is ’ to make it conform with an unrealized idea , a ‘ to be ’ . |
| 14 | The bottle had been used to make it look like a sexual attack . |
| 15 | matchsticks together and then I stuck one half on top of the other to make it look like an extending ladder . |
| 16 | ‘ We try to make it lighthearted for the other lads because there 's a lot of pressure . |
| 17 | Sarah Brightman 's Rose was a bloodless creature — she has to make us believe in the devil-may-care spirit of theatrical folk to show up the stuffiness of the aristocrats . |