Example sentences of "[noun] to make you [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are performances to make you forget these are pieces usually treated as potboilers . |
| 2 | But this is not a work of criticism , nor an attempt to make you like The Faerie Queene or the Confessio Amantis . |
| 3 | At Hilton International , it 's our intention to make you feel welcome and at home each and every time you 're our guest . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's running a cartel to make you carry on with your particular activity and then take his 40 per cent — it 's wickedness . ’ |
| 5 | No , there 's nothing like a good laugh to make you feel better about yourself . |
| 6 | Both authors have the skill to make you feel great empathy with their heroines . |
| 7 | IT 'S that time of year when there seems to be a party every other night and it takes a little extra imagination to make you stand out from the crowd . |
| 8 | Nevertheless it all sounded pretty convincing , so much so that you came out wondering whether that persistent zit on your face was n't the result of bad diet , but actually something implanted by alien beings , determined for their own mysterious purposes to make you suffer the social embarrassment of a bad complexion . |
| 9 | Untanned skin takes time for the natural melanin pigment to be triggered off by sunrays and to rise to the surface to make you look brown . |
| 10 | The first entry is the Piano Concerto in E flat , K.449 , one of a group of six ‘ concertos to make you sweat ’ . |
| 11 | This is no ordinary Museum — Not another Military Museum — Not a glass show case — it is a series of reconstructed scenes using movement , sound , lighting , smells , even smoke generators to make you feel you are actually there taking part . |
| 12 | Enough heaving flesh to make you heave . |
| 13 | The Business Traveller by Brian Moynahan we have ways to make you stay Hoteliers are using a whole new bag of tricks to keep their guests — and wallets — on the premises |
| 14 | ‘ Your friend goes to great trouble to make you think ill of me . ’ |
| 15 | What had happened that morning to make you think , Farag , that you were rich enough to afford a wife ? ’ |
| 16 | Choose hand embroidered tablecloths and bedlinen for your first home , nightdresses for the honeymoon and antique laces and linens to make you own dress . |
| 17 | And indeed , from this lofty site Loch Arkaig itself is a vision to make you burst into song . |
| 18 | Avoid the mirror syndrome , the acquisition of friends to make you feel good with yourself . |
| 19 | Glamorgan is way up on Devil 's Peak , and the sight of misty blue clouds hovering over its rocky peaks , so low that you feel that you could touch them , is so awe-inspiring that one feels all it needs is God 's voice thundering from the sky to make you fall flat on your face and worship . |
| 20 | ‘ What 's happened in your life to make you like this ? ’ |
| 21 | OUR SIXTH and final stop on an eye-opening tour to make you realise why East Enders are so proud of their heritage ( and , sadly , why the more extreme inhabitants want to remain insular and have the place ‘ unsullied ’ ) is a Brick Lane curry house . |
| 22 | The operation itself is usually purely formal , and only just stirs up enough dust to make you cough a little , but it is a sign that you belong to the higher or fit-to-be-dusted classes . |
| 23 | A male teacher can antagonize you , attract you , provoke you into working harder , and make you aware of aspects of yourself that you did not know existed ; if these have potential , a man can apply a useful sort of pressure to make you develop them . |
| 24 | I 'll find a way to make you run in harness , see if I do n't ! ’ |
| 25 | Now the red range at the top here is all the oils to make you relax . |
| 26 | He was about five-feet tall , but he had an enormous ability to make you feel that you had been given a real challenge and it seemed all-important to discharge it to his satisfaction and he was equally praising of your achievement . |
| 27 | ‘ Although ostensibly about sex , ’ says Renate Olins , ‘ affairs are often more about the other person 's ability to make you feel clever , witty and desirable . |
| 28 | But his strength was his ability to make you marvel at yourself . |
| 29 | Or rather , about how to try to tell it : since whether any such action of yours succeeds in doing what you want ( giving your tellee a true belief ) will depend as we 've seen on the truth of the beliefs which you also need in order to make you undertake that action . |
| 30 | I do n't have to stand here baring my soul in order to make you feel better and less of a victim ! |