Example sentences of "to make [pers pn] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great public buildings were stuccoed with gypsum to make them dazzle in the bright sea-light . |
| 2 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 3 | ‘ I gathered you all wanted to meet me , so it seemed a bit unkind to make you wait until the following morning … ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | From any of these positions I would be crazy to make him play with the left knee inflamed the way it is . ’ |
| 6 | Again he tried to make it stand with the thin box as the base and once again it fell over . |
| 7 | She has just taken office as president of the British Computer Society , and needs to make it jump from the seventies , where some believe it is still stuck , into the nineties . |
| 8 | 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 . |