Example sentences of "[noun] to make they [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You had to frighten kids to make them behave , but there was no need to scare them too much . |
| 2 | You can stamp on toes , feet or shins ; knee him in the thigh or groin ; grab and squeeze testicles or pinch the soft inside of thighs along the trouser seam ; elbow him or her in the ribs or stomach if the person is behind you , or knee them in the belly if in front ; grab the little finger of one of the hands that is holding you round the waist or arms , and bend it backwards , forcing him or her to let go ; bite the side of the neck or slap a cheek or ear ; bash the nose with the front or back of your head ; force the head back by pressing your fingers up nostrils or squeezing the flats of your thumbs into eyes ; or even spit into eyes to make them blink . |
| 3 | The warriors hurled themselves at the heads or horns of their animals to make them lie down . |
| 4 | The great public buildings were stuccoed with gypsum to make them dazzle in the bright sea-light . |
| 5 | ‘ Those things must have implanted some sort of image in their mind , stimulated the right emotions to make them do it . ’ |
| 6 | The idea is to pick up individual blocks , move them around and drop them next to matching blocks to make them disappear . |
| 7 | A to help men get sexually aroused , B to make them make them look like women 's legs , C to prevent men getting sexy aroused ? |
| 8 | Hospital nurses opposing a plan to make them wear their own clothes for work have put off a decision to take action in protest . |
| 9 | ‘ All of them are given a warm Irish welcome to make them feel at home . ’ |
| 10 | Ironically , the government really has been true to its policy of noninterference in the ‘ free market ’ where women 's opportunities are concerned , though in other areas it has often recognised the paradox that non-interventionist policies require intervention to make them work . |
| 11 | For a start , some brands of diesel now have additives to make them smell sweeter . |
| 12 | I could see her English neighbour shutting her front door in our faces , and yet all the same we left the two children there , rushing away after I 'd pinched their cheeks to make them cry so that she 'd have to come out to them . |
| 13 | The voting-oriented positive approaches to redistribution , given the comments above , may seem on stronger ground in explaining policy in that they largely rely on a narrow self-interest motive to make them tick . |
| 14 | Police say a paediatrician at the hospital gave the boys medication to make them vomit , and they were kept in hospital overnight for observation . |
| 15 | Mrs Bottomley is convinced the Tory victory provides the opportunity to entrench the reforms — and to give doctors , nurses and managers the confidence to make them work . |
| 16 | But too much mist obscures the question what it is like to be a chimp for even the best-meaning efforts to make them make the best of meaning . |
| 17 | No , there had never really been anything in Mr McCloy 's behaviour to make them believe he was n't a man of integrity . |
| 18 | A case of forcing one set of data into mother 's mould to make them look alike ? |
| 19 | Where the Government propose alternatives to custody , they must provide the resources to make them work . |
| 20 | Plungers require 75mm ( 3in ) or so of water in the sink to make them work . |
| 21 | He predicted that in future the technique would be used to make subtle change to politicians ' facial features in print and on television to make them appear more attractive . |
| 22 | Most graphs will keep going on up , and there 's a tendency for people to make them come back down again |
| 23 | She used to get angry and go and pull the bedclothes off Anthony and his friends to make them get up and get out . |
| 24 | And in all this , Joseph had learnt that Bligh 's proven and later much copied method of keeping off sickness , especially the scurvy , was to force fruit on his crew : fruit and exercise , for which purpose he carried a fiddler to make them dance every day . |
| 25 | It was all a smokescreen to make them believe that the Clarion Call had been lost at sea . |
| 26 | Yeah … if there was a pill to make them take it … |
| 27 | Monty recognized the trauma of drug addiction that Monroe suffered , both of them relying heavily on barbiturates to make them sleep . |
| 28 | If people have been wavering about giving us information this might just be the thing to make them come forward |
| 29 | Apply gentle pressure to make them appear more extreme . |
| 30 | The pads often require pressure to make them work . |