Example sentences of "[modal v] make [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's make them work . |
| 2 | Let's make them work . ’ |
| 3 | If your organization is slap-happy it will unnerve candidates and may make them think twice before accepting a job with you . |
| 4 | Sometimes changing to a normal lifestyle may make them feel guilty . |
| 5 | You 've got to make them feel that you 're not expecting too much of them , or you may make them freeze . |
| 6 | In such circumstances their use of slang and informal language may make them seem rather stupid in the eyes of others . |
| 7 | He may make me feel desolate , make my spirits sink , hide my future from me … still … |
| 8 | It may make me sound as if I 'm in training for a Blue Peter badge , but it works . |
| 9 | A drug may make an animal less hungry , less mobile , less sensitive to the pain of an electric shock , just as much as it may make it forget . |
| 10 | That may make it seem as if we thought each had specific dates and a definite content . |
| 11 | Excessive heat may make us feel ‘ stupid ’ and unable to function mentally . |
| 12 | The problems of the informal interview , then , are considerable , and they may make us feel that the formal type of interview is much less beset with difficulties and open to the criticism of lack of scientific method . |
| 13 | Dame Edna Everage may make us laugh at prejudice , but are we smiling or laughing at ourselves ? |
| 14 | Fear of losing our grip may make us hang on to jobs for longer than we should , in an attempt to reassure ourselves . |
| 15 | OK — when you 're in a dazed state , drugs may make you think you understand it all . |
| 16 | An enjoyable social life at the beginning of June may make you think twice about getting married now , Aquarius ! |
| 17 | Firing off a writ or an unfair dismissal application may make you feel better for a little while , but you should think carefully before launching yourself into a full-scale battle . |
| 18 | Food intolerance may be the cause of many minor ailments , which may make you feel under par . |
| 19 | And I 've got something to tell you which may make you feel the same way about me . " |
| 20 | If you can stand the pace and the heat , Bangkok is a very rewarding place to visit , although it may make you feel like taking a week afterwards to lie on a beach and recover . |
| 21 | It may make you want to ask the caterer if the coronation chicken was free range . |
| 22 | Do not cover up aspects of your lifestyle , such as heavy drinking , which you think may make you look less respectable . |
| 23 | You should make him sleep on your side and then when you come in he should move over . |
| 24 | In the lift to his floor he thought how odd it was that taking a firm stand should make him feel so bad-tempered . |
| 25 | ‘ If you 're worried about him , we should make him come to us . |
| 26 | We are now being told by this arrogant and incompetent lot that having given us record unemployment , bankruptcies , house repossession , liquidations , factory closures etc , that they are the only ones fit to govern when surely that record should make them hang their heads in shame . |
| 27 | I 'll have something ready that should make you feel better , and , before you ask me , yes , I did undress you and put you into my shirt . |
| 28 | ‘ Should make you look like a lady , ’ said Joe . |
| 29 | That should make you keep your distance , not want to kiss me yourself . ’ |
| 30 | As at Corbridge , they sometimes resemble rural dwellings , which should make us look again at some of the larger houses which occasionally occur in small towns further south . |