Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to make [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no suggestion that Chief Whip Mr Ryder or his Whips Office colleagues were guilty of this particular brutish behaviour , but many other Euro rebels complained that they were mercilessly browbeaten to make them withdraw their opposition . |
| 2 | Almost immediately , Doherty went on to try to make it general and so , of course , capable of calling for a general strike . |
| 3 | ‘ Every single drop of water going in to your house has been expensively treated to make it drinkable , so do you really want to spray it all over your car ? ’ said Kent Meters Marketing Director Terry Stoten . |
| 4 | You 'll obviously want to make it , you do n't want to make it too short you 're going to have enough words to get yourself a good mark . |
| 5 | All I ask is to be left to get on with my work , and enough support to make it possible . |
| 6 | The kid comes out hard , apparently wanting to make it a real fight . |
| 7 | It is probably best to acknowledge the barrier and so seek to make it into part of the perceptual bubble . |
| 8 | A rich fatty diet not only tends to make you overweight , it can also raise the level of cholesterol in the bloodstream — a predictor of heart disease . |
| 9 | Barclays bundles together orders to make them more economical , though it guarantees to deal within three hours , and the shareholder can call back to check the price . |
| 10 | M39 is very loose , but sufficiently condensed to make it obvious , particularly in view of the characteristic pattern of its leading stars . |
| 11 | We 're all going to make it . |
| 12 | We 're all going to make it . |
| 13 | Historic buildings would stay but need much work to make them safe , while an ‘ ugly legacy ’ of derelict property and fences require demolition , a major task . |
| 14 | She was prickly and sharp with him , and only too obviously relieved to make her escape . |
| 15 | But by that time four of the enemy ships were wrecks , one was aground and two of the remainder sufficiently damaged to make it doubtful whether they would ever reach their home ports — which was most evidently the hope of the survivors , as they went through the difficult , desperate business of turning in the confined space and heading back out to sea . |
| 16 | It only served to make her look more distinguished . |
| 17 | Likewise , Newton 's ‘ established ’ groups built up a ‘ close set ’ of relationships with public officials in Birmingham ( 1976 , p. 85 ) , while his poorly established groups found it difficult to gain access to decision-makers and thereby had to resort to demonstrations , petitions and so on which only served to make them even more unacceptable . |
| 18 | But … but it only seems to make him worse . ’ |
| 19 | Erm the er desire that I twelve conveys to encourage district councils to make special provision in their you know to emphasize high density employment in their city centres is understood , no quarrel with that , but if you ca n't , if you feel unable er at county level to be absolutely explicit , that a district would be free if it so chose , it might not choose to do so , if it so chose to make I twelve decisions that did n't come out of its I five , er they would n't have to come out of its I five allocations , unless you can be clear that they 're free to do that , erm it suggests to me sir that may be it 's I twelve that 's that 's getting in the way , erm and w that might well be something we can do without . |
| 20 | If a horse stops pulling once he has settled down and works sensibly and correctly after say , 20 minutes of ‘ whoopee ’ then it is a matter of working through the exuberance stage with as many exercises in the form of transitions and ‘ things to do ’ as possible to occupy the horse 's mind and so try to make him concentrate on his work rather than other exciting stimuli . |
| 21 | THE texture of a meal is important so try to make it varied . |
| 22 | This only served to make them more angry . |
| 23 | Peter Hickton , unaware that cooperation could be bought by payment of ‘ negotiated extras ’ , responded to the crew 's apparent lethargy by throwing one of his tantrums , which had only served to make them less willing to help out . |
| 24 | 2 This only served to make us redouble our efforts and two years later we proved it was possible . |
| 25 | Like the last editions we 'd had , it was censored , but enough remained to make it plain that all hell had been let loose over The Satanic Verses . |
| 26 | I only meant to make it welcoming and nice . |
| 27 | Jay so wanted to make it better , but how ? |
| 28 | There was n't even much attempt to make it look like a mugging ; he still had his wallet . |
| 29 | A Separate staffs , households , budgets and agendas are what the princess has long wanted to make her a royal in her own right . |
| 30 | If she had only tried to make him see … |