Example sentences of "[noun] to make [noun prp] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is using middleweight and light-heavyweight sparring partners in an attempt to make Cooney work faster , but in the session I watched he was not quick enough . |
| 2 | He is using middleweight and light-heavyweight sparring partners in an attempt to make Cooney work faster , but in the session I watched he was not quick enough . |
| 3 | And in a vain attempt to make Williams jump he said , ‘ I rather think we may have to tighten up on one or two things round here . ’ |
| 4 | My battle to make Patrick walk alone , by Michael Aspel |
| 5 | Mother Francis hoped that the Community in Dublin would understand the need to make Eve feel important and part of the place as they had always done here in Knockglen . |
| 6 | Outside , Gazzer looked even worse than he had in the tunnels : his face was haggard , haunted by his memories of last night , his fears for Bella , and his desperate need to make Marie believe him . |
| 7 | As he stepped into the room , the door swung shut behind him , causing a skitter of claustrophobia to make Shiona catch her breath . |
| 8 | But what security precautions could the Indian 's offer to make England feel any more comfortable in the coming weeks if the current Hindu-Moslem clashes continue ? |
| 9 | Signe had gone to a lot of trouble to make Harvey feel he was back home in America . |
| 10 | ‘ The department has no authority to make Caldaire sell and that particular clause will lapse after ten years , when the company would then be able to sell to the highest bidder . ’ |
| 11 | Oh , I could have gone further , I suppose — put up a bullfight poster to make Stuart feel at home but one must n't entirely submerge one 's personality , I find , otherwise one 's guests do n't know whom they 're meeting . |
| 12 | Spaniards have been told the time of sacrifice is over ; now come the years of effort — an effort to make Spain fit to enter European monetary and economic union in 1997 . |
| 13 | It is therefore quite wrong for Maurice Cowling , whose account of the crisis is by far the best , to write of ‘ The King 's decision to make Baldwin stay in office . ’ |
| 14 | Four cases to make Virginia think again |
| 15 | And some have diced with death to make Bond look good . |
| 16 | A family to make Pretoria tremble : Walter Sisulu will leave his cell to join a wife and son who have themselves been restricted , John Carlin writes from Johannesburg |